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Remembering Fr. Paul Mankowski
Paul Mankowski, a Jesuit of the Chicago province, who has just died—too soon at only 66—was probably…
The Arrow of Time
If you are interested in “time” and how people think about it, write about it, talk about…
Why We Are Where We Are
By early March 1865, more than a million Americans had killed or wounded one another in civil…
The Slavery of Radical Freedom
Central to the evil of slavery was its attempt to exterminate the black family. Slave traders took…
What the Sexual Revolution Has Wrought
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Jennifer Roback Morse discusses her…
Snow Moon Over Singer Island
Black velvet darkness, tufts of shredded clouds heading slow-ly up the coast, the lamp-like February snow moon…
The Next Pope and the Crisis of the West
In February 1968, Cardinal Karol Wojtyła wrote Father Henri de Lubac, S.J., about a project in which…
What We’ve Been Reading—July 2020
Mark BauerleinContributing Editor While researching for a book I’m writing, I looked at The Unmaking of a…
J. I. Packer: A Great Puritan
On a narrow strip of the northern California coastline grow the giant Redwoods, the biggest living things…
Onward!
The First Things mid-year campaign was a great success. Thanks to the generous support of hundreds of…
The Deadly “Quality of Life” Ethic
Something evil happened recently in Austin. Michael Hickson, a forty-six-year-old African-American man with quadriplegia and a serious…
A Failure of Responsibility
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Yuval…
Of Statues and Symbolic Murder
In our culture, we have gotten so used to the idea that “iconoclasm” is a good and…
Taking the Long Road
My liberal arts education at Wyoming Catholic College taught me the importance of first and last principles.…
Unjust Rules for Religious Believers
In the midst of the current pandemic, why should casinos have greater freedoms than churches? In casinos,…
