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The Bible figures the Spirit as breath, wind, smoke, and flame. He blows where he will, circulates invisibly, flickers like glory. You can hear his voice, but you can’t...

For years I have aspired to read Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy. But bound together the three novels (Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, and The End of...

In the center of Stepanakert, the capital city Armenians call the heart of Artsakh, there once stood a white limestone cathedral crowned with a dome and bell tower that...

In this episode, First Things brings you the recording of the 2026 Neuhaus Lecture presented by Bishop Robert Barron. Please subscribe to access more information about future lectures and many...

Although I have been on loan to Notre Dame at the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government this year, I returned to Grove City College to take part in...

One day around 1836, in the ancient city of Dijon, the young French poet Aloysius Bertrand was dreaming his dreams, when “the cough of someone walking dispersed [his] reveries...

I have a confession to make: I use AI chatbots. A lot. I ask them questions about many things, from fixing the dishwasher (accurate) to who wrote what when...

Good news not being thick on the ground these days, I’m delighted to note some very good news from the mother country: On April 24, the Terminally Ill Adults...

Frequent confession was once normal—monthly, biweekly, or even weekly. But it became rarer among Catholics formed from the 1970s through the 1990s. Today, many Catholics go to confession only...

The myth of Narcissus tells of a beautiful young man’s obsession with his own image, captured in a reflecting pool. He scorns all others, so entranced by himself that he gives up food, drink, and human connection to stare at his own reflection...

The world has changed and the ground has shifted under us. All that is solid melts into air, in a new age defined by what Zygmunt Bauman called “liquid...

Give credit where it’s due. That’s the message New York governor Kathy Hochul seems to have embraced by opting in to the Education Freedom Tax Credit. The initiative, part...

In the ​latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Jamie Glazov joins in to discuss his recent book, United in Hate: The Left’s Romance...

Marriages end in death. This isn’t news, but rarely is it foremost in the minds of the happy couple exchanging vows. In the group photos, no one is wondering...

Something of a shift in the landscape is ­signaled when a press like Polity releases, almost simultaneously, two book-length critical engagements...