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Housing
From a TLS piece published late last year (I’ve unfortunately and inexplicably lost the reference): It’s striking…
Darcy’s Shirt
Colin Firth’s dive into Pemberly’s pond is either the highlight or the lowlight of the epic A&E…
Eternity after Nietzsche
A decade ago, self-proclaimed “born-again pagan” and New Yorker-proclaimed “Sage of Yale Law” Anthony Kronman responded to…
Triune Perfections
In an essay on God’s attributes (Christian Dogmatics, 65-6) argues, rightly, that God’s attributes are “shaped by God’s…
Division and Secularization
Herbert Schlossberg recounts efforts at school and university reform following the religious revivals of the late 18th…
Toryism for the Poor
Richard Oastler, advocate of the Ten Hours Bill to limit the work week, was a decided Tory,…
Literary Desire
The Limits of Critiqueby rita felskiuniversity of chicago press, 232 pages, $22.50 “That thing that you like…
Freed from Futility
Paul encourages the Romans to endure because the sufferings they endure pale in comparison to the glory…
Conservatism’s Putin Problem, Revisited
Thomas Hamilton writes to challenge last week’s essay on Putin, nationalism, and globalism. He doesn’t think that I fairly…
You Are Witnesses
“You are My witnesses,” Yahweh says to Israel (Isaiah 43:1). Then again, “You are my witnesses” (43:12)…
A Militant Church
On this episode of the First Things Podcast: Editor Rusty Reno and literary editor Matthew Schmitz talk…
Song of the Justified
Romans 8:31–39 is better sung than commented upon. It’s a thrilling, ecstatic hymn of boisterous assurance that…
Simeon’s Trust
In his book, The Silent Revolution and the Making of Victorian England, Herbert Schlossberg sums up the career…
Absenteeism
Nineteenth-century radical Henry Hunt was once offered a clerical post worth a thousand pounds a year. His duties?…
Painter of Passion
Raphael is, we might think, a painter of abstract and ethereal scenes. Andrew Butterfield says in a…
