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Packer at Ninety
Several years ago Alister McGrath and I had a conversation about our friend, J. I. Packer, his…
What We’ve Been Reading—10.14.16
Elliot Milco: This week I’ve been reading the first volume of Volker Ullrich’s new biography Hitler: Ascent,…
A Catholic Spring?
On this episode of the First Things Podcast: 1:25 Literary editor Matthew Schmitz responds to criticisms of…
Economics for the Irrational
According to Mathew Crawford (The World Beyond Your Head), economics once held “that we are rational beings…
Queen of Snark
Devoney Looser says that Jane Austen’s juvenilia is an exercise in burlesque. Not the strip-tease variety, but…
Double Gilded Age
Plutocrats, Chrystia Freeland’s 2013 book, is about the rise of the “global super-rich” and the ways the…
As a Little Child
Look at a wall, suggests Matthew Crawford (The World Beyond Your Head). What color is it? You…
Secular Saints
“To understand the mind-set of the super-elite,” writes Chrystia Freeland in Plutocrats, “your starting point should be…
Denominational DIscourse
Prior to the 1830s, argues JCD Clark (The Language of Liberty, 1660-1832), British political debate was carried…
Why We Sing
In Revelation, martyrs sing before martyrdom and after martyrdom (Revelation 14-15). Their martyr songs are the war…
Greek Love
Summarizing themes from his Love, Sex, and Tragedy, Simon Goldhill highlights the difference between ancient Greek conceptions…
The Poet and the Christian
In a TLS review of several new books on Kierkegaard, Will Rees comments on the therapeutic cruelty…
Crisis of Dignity
In his new book, Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society, First Things editor R. R. Reno…
About those Unthinking, Backwards Catholics
Back in 2008, in the weeks leading up to the Obama-McCain presidential election, two young men visited…
Is There A Future for Protestantism?
Does Protestantism Have A Future? The answer to that question depends on what we mean by the…
