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Liturgy of Liberalism
The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies by ryszard legutko encounter, 200 pages, $14.36 In…
Ciceronian Times Call for Ciceronian Voices
It has become a commonplace among Christians to draw an analogy between our day and the first…
Christ’s Three-Fold Coming in Music
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio: Music, Theology, Cultureby markus ratheyoxford university press, 432 pages, $65 Centuries before…
A Wonderful(?) Life
On this episode of the First Things Podcast: Senior editor Mark Bauerlein and associate editor Julia Yost…
We Need Your Support
Dear Readers, As you know from what I’ve written in recent months, I believe our political distempers…
What We’ve Been Reading—12.16.16
Elliot Milco Here are some awesome books that you should be reading, or thinking about buying, for…
A Merry Pascalian Christmas!
Two weeks ago I concluded my annual course on the Reformation in traditional fashion, with a lecture…
No, Junior, the Catholic Church is not the Same as ISIS
A seventh-grader recently asked me how to respond to his peer’s obstinate claim that he and the…
Poetic Apocalypse
Christian Wiman (My Bright Abyss, 51-2) claims that some poets—“surprisingly few”—possess “a very particular gift for making…
Enemy to Life
Christian Wiman (My Bright Abyss, 41) quotes a poem, “These Poems, She Said” by Robert Bringhurst, which…
Modernity’s Wager
Adam Seligman compares Modernity’s Wager to Pascal’s: Pascal’s wager of the seventeenth century, of reason for faith,…
Tale of Two Monsters
Timothy Beal (Religion and Its Monsters) analyzes Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis (1926) as a tale of two…
Medieval Figures
In his recent study of figural exegesis, Time and the Word, Ephraim Radner traces the “fate of…
Lessons from Alabama
Fellow Alabamian Quin Hillyer says that Trump should pay attention to what’s happening in Alabama if he…
Berkeley’s Book of Nature
Costica Bradatan wants us to attend to The Other Bishop Berkeley. The Berkeley that is most often…
