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A Conversation with the Editor
Dear Reader, I want to share with you the following interview from December 17. This year of…
Remembering Fr. Reginald Foster (1939–2020)
On December 25, shortly after midnight, while Catholics all over the Midwest were attending midnight mass, Fr.…
Our Year in Books: 2020
We asked some of our writers to contribute a paragraph about the most memorable books they read…
Bombs Away
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. James Nolan joins the…
First Things is a Beacon
What happens to a young left-wing activist after she leaves college? She has served in student government, organized…
Learning from the O Antiphons
St. Anne came to my wife in a dream once. The grandmother of Jesus gently touched my…
Death of a Spy
After the death of John le Carré was announced a few days ago, a friend asked me…
Making God Real
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Tanya Marie Luhrmann joins the…
The Jealous God of Chanukah
I sometimes think that the hardest part of Judaism is its regimen of self-improvement. Moderate your appetites—no…
The Tragedy of Transhood
The fight to legalize same-sex marriage in America was a decades-long culture war. The transgender revolution has…
Honest Historiography
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Andrew Zwerneman joins the podcast…
Make America Good Again
American politics are chaotic these days. But if you want a glimpse into the future, take a…
The Gospel and the Natural Law
In the Baptist church of my childhood, we often sang the hymn “He Paid a Debt He…
Supremacy of the Court
The midnight religious liberty ruling from the Supreme Court last week—Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo—confirms…
Homeless in Advent
Nothing is as debilitating as homelessness. Home is where the heart is. To not have a home…
