
The Re-Churching of Men
Church life in America has been majority-female for some time. According to Pew Research, women make up 57 percent of those who attend religious services weekly. Faithful women have…
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America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
The Age of De-Globalization
Large Language Poetry
In my ideal undergraduate course in literary criticism, the first semester would include a brisk introduction to…
The Re-Churching of Men
Church life in America has been majority-female for some time. According to Pew Research, women make up…
Biden Is the New Francis
Early in 2016, articles began to appear noting similarities between Pope Francis and Donald Trump. Trump’s promise…
Covenantal Capitalism
One recent afternoon, while visiting Universal Studios, I found myself seriously contemplating socialism. I was standing in…

The Editor’s Desk
Brave New World Conservatism
In this episode, Nathan Pinkoski joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his book review “Paleofuturism” from the February 2024 issue of the magazine. The conversation is…

Conversations
Cicero the Comedian
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Michael Fontaine joins in to discuss his recent translations, How to Tell a Joke: An Ancient Guide…

The First Things Podcast
Super Bowls and Bad Samaritans
The editors discuss Super Bowl 59—why we watched, who tried to rig the outcome, and what Taylor Swift will do next. Then we talk JD Vance, Pope Francis, and…
Give the National Endowment for the Arts Back to the Public
Who’s Really Calling the Shots at U.S. Diocesan Chanceries?
The Second Vatican Council taught that bishops are not mere delegates of the pope, regional managers of…
IVF Is Not Pro-Family
Donald Trump made good on his promise to expand access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) on February…
Why Women Cannot Be Deacons
Much has recently been written about the possibility of the Church sacramentally ordaining women to the diaconate.…
What Protestants Get Wrong About the Epistle to the Hebrews
The Epistle to the Hebrews proclaims the superiority of the new to the old, the second to…
Dostoevsky’s Credo
What does it mean to believe something? Is it possible for a person to profess an idea…
Finding Faith in the Fragments
When your parents were married for seventeen years before you were born, as mine were, you spend…
Letter to a Young Bishop
Your Excellency, I’m writing only because you asked. I have so far successfully avoided the role of…
Mind the Gap
I grew up in a religiously sympathetic, if not always actively practicing, household. During my toddler years, my…
Merkelʼs Country
German readers have a powerful appetite for doorstop political autobiographies, gossip-filled 600- and 700-page apologias by major…
Necessary Societies
On the Dignity of Society:Catholic Social Teaching and Natural Lawby f. russell hittinger,edited by scott j. ronigercatholic…
The End of March
Stands of bearded iris, purple in mourningSpring up, early, among their cool green speartips,Pale and pointed, palmlike,…
Letter to a Middle-Aged Poet
Nature and history have made us what we are, fat hapless amateurs stranded some ninety million miles from the nearest…
Birds of the Air
Look— crimson berries for songbirds, writhing worms for red-breasted early birds, swarming mice and astonished doves plucked…
A Theology of Fiction
A spirited debate has been going on for nearly a decade now, much of it in these pages,…
Death in Naples
The taxi driver shouted, “Tell us! Tell us!” when his other passenger, a local journalist, announced that…
Immigration Idealism
For much of my life, I believed in open borders. Aside from violent criminals, I could think…
Harry Potter’s Magic
By now most readers in this country are aware of what has come to be called the…
A Jewish Theology of Resurrection
Does Judaism need a theology of Christianity? The usual answer is no: Whereas without Jews and Judaism…
Alexander Dugin Explained
Many sense that the West needs to reconsider its philosophical foundations. Reflexive appeals to old pieties no…