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Taylor Ends the Gender Wars

R. R. Reno

In this episode, First Things Patricia Snow joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk…

Christ-Haunted Sally Rooney

John Duggan

I grew up in Ireland in the 1970s and eighties. The parents of my friends, neighbors, cousins,…

The Boys in the Bandwidth

Mary Eberstadt

Red and blue Americans are locked in a hostile custody battle right now. But if they agree…

Taylor Swift’s Sexual Revolution

Patricia Snow

In the fall of 1970, a year after Yale welcomed its first female freshmen and six months…

Malick the ­Philosopher

Thomas Hibbs

Terrence Malick and the Examined Life by Martin Woessneruniversity of pennsylvania, 416 pages, $65 In his book God,…

Overcoming the Sixties

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Timothy S. Goeglein joins…

The Enduring Essence of the Mets

John Byron Kuhner

I grew up in working-class New York City in the 1980s, which means I grew up with…

Machine

Ephraim Radner

The American modernist poet E. E. Cummings ended up as a somewhat lonely, politically conservative Unitarian. It…

Clint Eastwood’s Law

Matthew Schmitz

In the course of his seven-decade career, Clint Eastwood has come to be identified with a single…

Clint Eastwood’s Lonely Heroes

R. R. Reno

In this episode, Matthew Schmitz joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his article…

Localism: Our Last Best Hope?

John Duggan

Localism: Coming Home to Catholic Social Teachingedited by dale ahlquist and michael warren davisrnsophia institute press, 240…

On Tortured Poets, Taylor Swift Dreams of Marriage

Isabella Clarke

On her 2022 album Midnights, Taylor Swift addressed fan speculation over why she and her then-boyfriend and…

Easter and the Eclipse

Fr. Raymond J. de Souza

Were you there when the sun refused to shine?  So our choir sang on Good Friday during…

Fairie on the Hudson

Peter J. Leithart

Here in Avalonby tara isabella burtonrnsimon & schuster, 320 pages, $28.99 Tara Isabella Burton’s latest novel, Here…

At St. Patrick’s, a Battle of the Icons

Fr. Raymond J. de Souza

I love St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. It was painful to see it the object of…