What are children for? For my grandmother, this would have seemed a strange question. For her, having children was not a matter of choice but simply, as she once put it to me, “what one did.” Today, though, children have become decisions we make: an opt-in variation on our default state of . . . . Continue Reading »
Near the start of this book, there is an unexpectedly absorbing digression on the subject of the late Paul Mankowski, S.J.’s shirts. In a letter about clerical clothing, Mankowski explains that he owns “a total of about six shirts, four of which are wearable in public and the others of which are . . . . Continue Reading »
Thanks for playing. Here’s your consolation prize:a mountain capped with fog, the sun behind throwing light circumspectly on a lake, the waya painter lights a lovely face from out of frame. I’m sorry that you didn’t win, but here’syour daughter’s voice at eight floating on breath as softly . . . . Continue Reading »
Patricia Snow joins R. R. Reno on The Editor's Desk to talk about her essay “Taylor Swift's Sexual Revolution” from the November 2024 print edition of the magazine. Continue Reading »
joins in to discuss his new book, What It Means to Be Protestant: The Case for an Always-Reforming Church. Continue Reading »
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First Things senior editor Dan Hitchens joins Rusty Reno on The Editor's Desk to talk about his book review “Charity And Sarcasm” from the November 2024 print edition of the magazine. Continue Reading »
Timothy S. Goeglein joins in to discuss his new book, Stumbling Toward Utopia: How the 1960s Turned Into a National Nightmare and How We Can Revive the American Dream. Continue Reading »
Eric Adler joins in to discuss his new book, Humanistic Letters: The Irving Babbitt-Paul Elmer More Correspondence. Continue Reading »
Daniel McInerny joins in to discuss his new book, Beauty and Imitation: A Philosophical Reflection on the Arts. Continue Reading »
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