I didn’t like doing my spring cleaning in March. March is cold on Wildcat Mountain. It was twenty degrees in the daytime, five degrees at night. Two and a... The…
First Things ↗In 1966, Philip Rieff wrote in The Triumph of the Therapeutic that “Religious man was born to be saved; psychological man is born to be pleased.” At some point we…
First Things ↗The Christian tradition is the Christian’s inheritance.
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Perhaps the biggest paradox Wilson brings out is that true happiness often comes when we stop actively looking for it.
Mere Orthodoxy ↗In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, James M. O’Toole joins in to discuss his recent book, For I Have Sinned... The post…
First Things ↗Pundits tell us that we are moving beyond the culture wars. Left and right are merging in their common judgment that liberalism has reached a dead end. Something new... The…
First Things ↗Economic populists often tell a version of this story: In the working-class heyday that was the post–World War II economic model, a man could put a roof over his... The…
First Things ↗We think the political world is divvied up into nearly two hundred distinct nations, each with mappable boundaries, a unified political system, a shared language and culture, and a... The…
First Things ↗When sin is depicted in its reality and not as a celebration of self-creation, a humorous escapade, or a dark but potent sign of passionate genius, what we see is…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Odysseus and his men know they cannot just sail by the sirens and hope their willpower and common sense will hold out against the sirens’ song. They have to prepare.
Mere Orthodoxy ↗