First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life

The future of marriage.

THE PUBLIC SQUARE

The allure of Nihilism.

THE PUBLIC SQUARE - Brief article

Tilting titles.

LETTERS - Letter to the editor

The anxious parent.

OPINIONS - Column

Roe's pro-life legacy.

OPINIONS - Column

Jung's therapeutic Gnosticism: The Red Book, David Bentley Hart argues, reflects a late-modern desire for transcendence without transcendence.

Carl Jung - Critical essay

Against great books: Patrick J. Deneen questions our approach to the Western canon.

Essay

Astronomical Aubade.

Poem

Market morals.

Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy - Book review

America's crusades.

Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy - Book review

Jacob and Esau.

From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965 - Book review

Utility's deceptions.

Peter Singer and Christian Ethics: Beyond Polarization - Book review

Will Many Be Saved? What Vatican II Actually Teaches and Its Implications for the New Evangelization.

Book review

Fixing the Moral Deficit: A Balanced Way to Balance the Budget.

Book review

And talk about glass houses.

WHILE WE'RE AT IT - How tourists are treated in New York - Brief article

As some readers will know, the townhouse in which some of the editors live caught fire the Sunday before Christmas last year.

WHILE WE'RE AT IT - Brief article

New Yorkers are so rude,' declared our midwestern friend.

WHILE WE'RE AT IT - Brief article

After centuries of 'good and truly brotherly relations,' things have gotten rough--there are 'tangible difficulties,' in the diplomatic language of church statements--between the Russian Orthodox Church and the churches of the Anglican Communion, and the Orthodox insist it's the Anglicans' fault.

WHILE WE'RE AT IT - Brief article

Of course we all have our biases and blind spots, and every publication has a point of view, but there is something about the Times' style and tone that suggest a loftier-than-usual view of their own objectivity and insight.

WHILE WE'RE AT IT - Brief article

There are some causes, we admit, we don't understand, and legalizing marijuana for general (as opposed to medical) use is one of them.

WHILE WE'RE AT IT - Brief article

Thousands and possibly tens of thousands of Christians die for the faith every year, notes Daniel Philpott, writing in the Jesuit magazine America.

WHILE WE'RE AT IT - Brief article

We came across the preceding item through the very interesting website called A Journey Through NYC Religions, a site 'exploring the postsecular city.'.

WHILE WE'RE AT IT - Brief article

As we write, the Catholic Church in the English-speaking world is finishing the first year using the new translation of the Novus Ordo, and everyone seems happy.

WHILE WE'RE AT IT - Brief article

Last month, we quoted a convicting description of boycotts and the spiritual dangers thereof.

WHILE WE'RE AT IT - Brief article

Some animals are homosexual, said the young man, mentioning two male penguins who reportedly raised a chick together, though the one news story we saw did not say whether the two were, um, romantically involved.

WHILE WE'RE AT IT - Brief article

A couple of months ago, we mentioned Chesterton's insight into art, that the essence of the picture is the frame.

WHILE WE'RE AT IT - Brief article

Another writer appropriated by conservatives feels pretty much the same way.

WHILE WE'RE AT IT - Brief article

Wolfe, the magazine reports, 'bristles at the consensus that he's a conservative.'.

WHILE WE'RE AT IT - Brief article

As my friend Judy Warner (no, not that Judith Warner) says.

WHILE WE'RE AT IT - Brief article

For the last two elections, and several of the last seven, conservatives have had to talk themselves into liking the Republican presidential candidate more than they had before, because he was not the liberal Democratic candidate.

WHILE WE'RE AT IT - Brief article