an attempt to say what Mr. Berry of Port Royal meant to us
Mere Orthodoxy ↗The following is an excerpt from Bonnie Kristian’s new book, In Defense of Evangelicalism. I ‘d been working in journalism for about two years when Donald Trump announced his... The…
First Things ↗Reluctant as I am to fiddle with the U.S. Constitution, I’m willing to consider an amendment banning any elementary school from opening before Labor Day. That’s the way things... The…
First Things ↗Ten years ago, an editor at Penguin approached me to ask if I would like to edit a collection of essays by Wendell Berry for a British audience. Berry’s... The…
First Things ↗Have you noticed the recent flood of commentaries and articles in the mainstream media dwelling on why populism has no future? In fact, “Is this the end of populism?”... The…
First Things ↗Stefan Borg’s The Return of the Common Good: The Postliberal Project Left and Right arrives as a welcome—and much-needed—intervention in the liberalism debates.
Mere Orthodoxy ↗The following excerpt from Joseph Orso, On the Threshold of Worlds: Tending My Father Before and After His Last Breath is published with permission from Front Porch Republic Books and…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗We are pleased to announce the winners of the third annual First Things Poetry Prize. Forester McClatchey has won first place for his poem “Lethe.” This year’s external judge,... The…
First Things ↗Minor quibbles about practicalities aside, this book about caring for our dead and reclaiming old rituals and practices that once made up the fabric of community is really asking a…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Gress doesn’t deliver on her promise of a rigorous, methodical takedown of feminism as an ideology. Her account is partial at best, and misleading at worst.
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