Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us at First Things! On this final day of 2018, why not take some time to revisit our most popular pieces published in the past year? The following lists include our top print edition pieces and top Web Exclusives, and are ordered in terms of page views:
Our 25 Most Popular Print Articles:
1. Shame Storm, Helen Andrews
2. The Bookish Life, Joseph Epstein
3. The Ignoble Lie, Patrick J. Deneen
4. The Anti-Christian Alt-Right, Matthew Rose
5. Letter to an Aspiring Intellectual, Paul J. Griffiths
6. ELCA Hits Bottom, Robert Benne
7. Evangelical Gnosticism, Abigail Rine Favale
8. Latimer and Ridley Are Forgotten, Peter Hitchens
9. Catholicism After 2018, R. R. Reno
10. A Church in Doubt, Richard Rex
11. Homeless in Seattle, Gil Costello
12. Vice and Fire, Peter Hitchens
13. Jordan Peterson, Unlikely Guru, Matthew Schmitz
14. Letter to an Aspiring Theologian, by Kevin J. Vanhoozer
15. The Prophetic Power of Humanae Vitae, Mary Eberstadt
16. Culture War as Class War, Darel E. Paul
17. Chatterley on Trial, Peter Hitchens
18. Clarify Me Please, God of the Galaxies, Dana Gioia
19. The Theology of Foreign Policy, Michael Doran
20. Believe, That You May Understand, Charles J. Chaput
21. Aristotle Returns, Tim Crane
22. The Metaphysics of Democracy, Thomas Joseph White
23. A False Paradigm, Michael Hanby
24. Taylor Swift, Nazi Barbie?, Dominic Green
25. You Better Like It, R. R. Reno
Our 25 Most Popular Web Exclusives:
1. Why Men Like Me Should Not Be Priests, Daniel Mattson
2. Ireland: An Obituary, John Waters
3. Pope Francis and Capital Punishment, Edward Feser
4. Fr. Martin’s False Comfort, Joseph Sciambra
5. An Open Letter from Young Catholics, Various
6. Dr. Peterson and the Reporters, Mark Bauerlein
7. Cleansing the Church of Clerical Sacrilege, Dominic Legge, O.P.
8. From the Heart of a Young Father, Charles J. Chaput
9. The Sins of Chick-fil-A, Charlotte Allen
10. Andy Stanley’s Modern Marcionism, Wesley Hill
11. The End of the Imperial Episcopate, Jay Scott Newman
12. How U2 Betrayed Rock’n’Roll, John Waters
13. Why Francis Must Speak, Gerald E. Murray
14. Thoughts on the Instrumentum Laboris, Charles J. Chaput
15. Why We Stay, and the Viganò Testimony, George Weigel
16. Solzhenitsyn’s Prophecy, Robert P. George
17. The Papal Foundation and McCarrick’s Conflict of Interest, Matthew B. O’Brien
18. What Francis Knew, Philip Lawler
19. The Problem of Sexually Active Priests, Thomas V. Berg
20. Her Name is Monroe Christine, Brandon McGinley
21. What Happens in Germany, Charles J. Chaput
23. Men Without Conviction, Churches Without People, George Weigel
24. Alfie Evans and Our Moral Crossroads, Charles C. Camosy
25. Francis and the Journalists, John Waters
Want more incisive commentary and stellar prose from the likes of Helen Andrews, Peter Hitchens, and John Waters in 2019? We can only do what we do with your support, so please consider making a contribution to our campaign today. Thank you for reading First Things in 2018, and stay tuned for more superb writing on religion and public life in the new year.
