Killing Time
On October 29, 1945, Jean-Paul Sartre delivered his lecture “Existentialism Is a Humanism,” a declaration of independence for the postwar era. Its organizers at the Club Maintenant in Paris…
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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 Re-Churching of Men
Church life in America has been majority-female for some time. According to Pew Research, women make up…
The Age of De-Globalization
Annex Greenland! Take back the Panama Canal! Canada as the fifty-first state! Speaking at an early January…
Conversations
Catholicism at the End of the World
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Jeremy Beer joins in to discuss his recent book, Beyond the Devil’s Road: Francisco Garcés and the…
Conversations
Fiction and Last Things
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Cassandra Nelson joins in to discuss her recent book, A Theology of Fiction. The conversation is embedded…
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…
How Family Breakdown Fuels Child Exploitation
Sweden on the Edge
Sweden is facing a crisis of violence. On February 5, thirty-five-year-old Rickard Andersson, an ethnic Swede, walked…
Red Hulk, Blue Politics
The real protagonist of Captain America: Brave New World—the fourth in the franchise, if you’re keeping score—isn’t…
Andrew Tate and Conservative Hypocrisy
On February 27, Andrew and Tristan Tate landed in Florida after Romania’s Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime…
A Guide to the Oscars
Who even watches the Oscars?” said First Things editor R. R. Reno when I proposed to write…
Letter to a Young Bishop
Your Excellency, I’m writing only because you asked. I have so far successfully avoided the role of…
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…
Lurid and Marginal
“I think religion has got everything appallingly wrong,” Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch told an interviewer in 2015, “and…
Necessary Societies
On the Dignity of Society is an anthology of Russell Hittinger’s previously published articles, organized into three…
Mind the Gap
I grew up in a religiously sympathetic, if not always actively practicing, household. During my toddler years, my…
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…
