Charlotte’s Web Revisited

by Alexander Riley

The central theme of Charlotte's Web is death. Continue Reading »

4 Jun 2024

Your First Things Community

by Ramona Tausz

In the midst of our atomized world, First Things offers a community—a place where you will find others eager to join you in opposing the chaos of contemporary life.  Continue Reading »

21 Dec 2017

American Caesar

by The Editors

The First Things Podcast, Episode 11. Also featuring: the true fantasy of T. H. White and the bad style advice of E. B. White (no relation). Continue Reading »

23 Sep 2016

Mortality: The Measure of Our Days

by Gilbert Meilaender

For much of human history death was associated at least as much with infancy and youth as with old age. To live to be old was an achievement—a modest victory over death, and one often thought of in religious terms as a blessing. In our time, however, when death and old age so often go hand in . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 1991