Red Menace
Once granted unchallenged supremacy, a GOP establishment is every bit as entrenched, every bit as self-protective, as every other establishment.
December 2024
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Tulsi Gabbard’s Culture Wars
Lady Scrooges
I noticed it last Christmas: It’s the women who really hate Ebenezer Scrooge. In the opening scene of…
Let God
I’m a great lover of the English language, but I must confess that, lately, I’ve come to…
Mere Christendom
Douglas Wilson argues for what ought to be uncontroversial: governance by wise Christians. He calls it “mere Christendom”…
The Less You Know
There’s a car mechanic I have known for years. Ed knew my father and worked on his…
Conversations
The Truth Is in the Classics
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Paul Krause joins in to discuss his new book, Finding Arcadia: Wisdom, Truth, and Love in the…
Conversations
Science Says God Is Real
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. José Carlos González-Hurtado, joins in to discuss his new book, New Scientific Evidence for the Existence of…
The Editor’s Desk
Taylor Ends the Gender Wars
In this episode, First Things Patricia Snow joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about her essay “Taylor Swift’s Sexual Revolution” from the November 2024 print edition…
Bathrooms Are Not the Real Battlefield
An Open Letter to JD Vance
Dear Senator Vance: As Americans celebrate a unique national holiday, the origins of which remind us that…
Red Menace
Once granted unchallenged supremacy, a GOP establishment is every bit as entrenched, every bit as self-protective, as…
Mixed Pro-Life News and Lessons from Election Night
There is good news for the pro-life movement from election night.
Immigration Realities
If you have followed this column for a while, you will have gathered that there are a…
Resist the Conception Machine
The almost complete lack of reflection on the normalization of assisted reproductive technologies for producing children is…
Modernity’s Self-Destruct Button
All politics is local, as they say. And so, before we proceed to the big question of…
Overcoming Theological Amnesia
Ressourcement. It’s a French word that means “resourcing”—or, better, “re-sourcing.” As a term in theology, it calls…
Real Persons
How to Know a Person:The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by david brooksrandom…
Changing God’s Mind
The Widening of God’s Mercy:Sexuality Within the Biblical Story by christopher b. hays and richard b. haysyale…
Ready for Weirdness
Living in Wonder:Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age by rod dreherzondervan, 288 pages, $29.99 Is…
Apophatic
Not with the myth and phosphorus of metaphor. Notwith lines of force looped in true-love knots.Not by…
Spontaneous Loss
Those early weeks, you could have been anyone, Too young for fingerprints, much less a name,And years…
In the Activities Room
No one will say it, but we knowtoday’s fresh-flamed hibiscus flowerreveals in one brief, glorious showour birth,…
September 11–Before and After
The Public Square September 11. This is written the day after, just under the deadline for this…
Angels in Ferguson
When the New York Times printed a short profile of Michael Brown just as mourners were preparing…
Fear God, Honor the Emperor
Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement urged resistance to laws that enforced racial discrimination. They appealed to…
Dark Age Theology
We are facing a Dark Age. In this new era, theology will need to be sparer, stripped…
Building Bridges, Not Walls
While visiting Mexico last February, Pope Francis intervened in America’s political battles. Although he did not mention…
Postconstitutional America
The Stakes:America at the Point of No Returnby michael antonregnery, 500 pages, $32.99 Beginning with his essay…
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