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Dylan a’Changin’
Few pop stars have been as mercurial as Bob Dylan. Folk singer, rock star, gospel singer, a…
Creativity in a Secular Age
Toward the end of the rambunctious Paris Review interview, sometimes a meta-interview about the process of interviewing,…
Why We Need Leviathan
In a NYRB review of Anthony Gottlieb’s Dream of Enlightenment, Thomas Nagel corrects Gottlieb’s account of Hobbes’s…
Sacred Distraction
In his poignant, deeply personal New York essay on his distraction addiction, Andrew Sullivan reflects on the…
Who Owns Antiquities?
Maxwell Anderson’s forthcoming Antiquities surveys the world of antiquities, summarizing law, history of collection, the difference between…
Speculation Nation
Stuart Banner attempts to draw the fine line between investment and gambling in his forthcoming Speculation. Among…
How Change Happens
The world is full of activists and “change agents,” but Duncan Green doesn’t think anyone has a…
Postmodern Manicheanism
In his published conversation with Zygmunt Bauman about Liquid Evil, Leonidas Donskis observes that “Optimism is, above…
The Wild of the Mass
At a funeral Mass today I happened to be sitting next to an older lady who, when…
Abraham’s Fourfold Genealogy
Abraham’s genealogy in 1 Chronicles 1 can’t seem to get off the ground. He’s identified as father…
Confusion of Humanity, Reign of God
As everyone now knows, 2016 has been dubbed the year of the “Flight 93 Election” by an…
On the Theology of Sleep
I have sometimes jokingly told my friends in Opus Dei—the apostolate whose principal characteristic is the sanctification…
Communio Beyond Ecclesiology
Communio has been a key concept in Roman Catholicism over the past century, but David L. Schindler…
Why Do They Shout “Allahu Akbar”?
On Saturday, September 17, Dahir A. Adan, an Islamic State “solider,” according to an ISIS media outlet,…
The Whig Narrative and American Christianity
In the August/September print edition of First Things (Subscribe!) R. R. Reno comments on the puzzling fact…
