Fertility and Toxicity
by Lyman StoneOne pernicious effect of lead exposure is not widely understood: It reduces biological fertility and increases the rate of fetal death and miscarriage. Continue Reading »
Homelands and Social Doctrines
by George WeigelThere was serious Catholic failure in Latin America, and the bishops with whom I spoke were honest enough to admit it. Continue Reading »
State Irreligion
by Marcel ProustWhen one is delivered from a duty, one is less free. Continue Reading »
Her Name Is Monroe Christine
by Brandon McGinleyEverybody has a master, I suppose. Continue Reading »
Punching Above Our Weight
by Julia YostFirst Things has no stable of staff writers, nor are we underwritten by billionaire benefactors and ad revenue from Fortune 500 corporations. Continue Reading »
“Grace” in Ebbing, Missouri
by Peter J. LeithartWriter and director Martin McDonagh has put us in a Flannery O’Connor world. Continue Reading »
Poland and the Future
of Europe
by Jozef Andrew Kosc
Polish society represents an integral and democratic Catholicism, one that has resisted the anti-culture of postmodernism and neoliberal cosmopolitanism. Continue Reading »
Our Mission Against Despair
by Ramona Tausz“The work of dying well,” wrote Richard John Neuhaus, “is, in largest part, the work of living well.” Continue Reading »
After the Irish Debacle
by George WeigelWith Ireland having joined the Gadarene rush into legalizing the dictatorship of relativism, what next? Continue Reading »
Freedom and First Things
by R. R. RenoFirst Things exists to liberate modern men and women of faith from bondage to secular falsehoods. Continue Reading »
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