A Dark Cloud For Democracy
by Carl R. TruemanBritain's news headlines are not dominated by events in its most recently ceded colony but by domestic protests about police violence in Minneapolis. Continue Reading »
Queer Times
by Carl R. TruemanThe LGBTQ debate is about the radical abolition of metaphysics and metanarratives and any notion of cultural stability that might rest thereupon. Continue Reading »
Briefly Noted
by VariousIn September 1944, Helmuth von Moltke sat in Berlin’s Tegel prison, awaiting execution. The Nazis had arrested him for organizing the Kreisau Circle, a resistance group formed to plan a more democratic future Germany. Helmuth’s death drew near, yet, as his wife Freya wrote to him, “The best . . . . Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousTheodore Dalrymple (“Identity as Ideology,” February) is certainly correct to point to the yearning for transcendence that was not—and likely cannot be—obliterated in people like André Hébert when they lose the will to enter into communion with the traditional means of attaining . . . . Continue Reading »
More Than Our Appetites
by J. D. FlynnFr. James Martin’s work fails to express, or even take into account, Catholic teaching on what it means to be a person. Continue Reading »
Common Good Conservatism In Action
by Terry SchillingAs the new year begins, conservative lawmakers in numerous states have started a fresh attempt to push back against the LGBT agenda. Continue Reading »
Identity as Ideology
by Theodore DalrympleLike many persons possessing limited insight into the future, I had supposed that, with the collapse of the Soviet Empire, utopianism would die out in the Western world. I was mistaken. Identity politics in the West is veering in the direction of totalitarianism. A book I read . . . . Continue Reading »
Arguing for Truth in the Anti-Culture
by Carl R. TruemanFirst Things remains committed to showing that honest, open discussion of the most important issues in this earthly city are vital. Continue Reading »
Our Integral Regime
by Sohrab AhmariThe Center for Global Development elected not to renew Maya Forstater’s contract after she expressed the belief that sex is biological and immutable. Continue Reading »
Against the “Fairness For All” Act
by David S. CrawfordThe “Fairness for All” Act misunderstands both the nature of and danger presented by the LGBTQ+ conception of sexuality. Continue Reading »
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