In this episode, Micah Mattix joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about Portico, a new literary quarterly published by the Institute on Religion and Public... The…
First Things ↗When I was growing up, it wasn’t uncommon to hear women bemoan their husbands’ absence from church. I remember scanning the pews of St. Peter’s in Plattsburgh, New York,... The…
First Things ↗The Last Men:Liberalism and the Death of Masculinityby charles cornish-daleregnery, 288 pages, $32.99 Charles Cornish-Dale, who posts on X under the nom de plume Raw Egg Nationalist, is a... The…
First Things ↗The contemporary university is widely acknowledged to be in crisis. Loss of public confidence, relentless tuition increases, and intensifying debates over speech and academic freedom... The post Recovering the University’s…
First Things ↗Like practically everyone else, I loved Project Hail Mary, the runaway science fiction mega-hit film that has so far garnered over $600 million in worldwide revenue. Everything about the... The…
First Things ↗At the premiere of the new Knives Out thriller Wake Up Dead Man [Spoilers ahead], Director Rian Johnson introduced the viewing by saying, “We’re going back to church.”
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Of the making of books trying to argue for or against women's ordination there is no end.
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Three-quarters of a century ago, on April 29, 1951, I was baptized by Fr. Thomas Love, S.J., in Baltimore’s Church of Saints Philip and James. Old Scratch must have... The…
First Things ↗Christopher Beha. Why I Am Not an Atheist: The Confessions of a Skeptical Believer. Penguin Press, 2026. $30.00. 432 pp.
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Megan Kate Nelson. The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier. Scribner, 2026. $31.00. 464 pp.
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