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I recently lectured in Rome on the topic of the Antichrist. The Antichrist interests me for several reasons, mostly because nobody else is talking about it—which, for most of Christian...

CRACOW. I usually find the quadrennial FIFA World Cup aggravating for the five reasons enumerated below, plus one other: My students here in the Tertio Millennio Seminar on the...

When people ask where I intern, I watch their faces carefully. I say: First Things, a journal of religion and public life founded by a Lutheran pastor who soon...

What follows is a lightly edited version of the written testimony Camosy prepared for the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission hearing on “Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain: Implications...

The media would like you to know that the Great American State Fair, which took over the National Mall this month, was not, in fact, great. Snooty social media...

In the ​latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Christopher Perrin joins in to discuss Classical Academic Press. The conversation is embedded below. For...

Modest is hottest, or so we’ve been told. In her first book, Anna Kalinowska rejects this school of thought and offers the traditional Catholic woman a guide to dress as an art form...

My first thought on “Boomer–Zoomer Housing War” by Carmel Richardson was the title; my second thought after reading the piece was, Why is this in First Things? My third thought was, Why don’t I feel guilty...

Walk into a bookstore anywhere in the country. Chances are that, somewhere toward the front, you’ll see a glossy display table labeled “Banned Books.” The same is true for...

In a simpler time, the internet was full of cats. Flooding message boards and YouTube with images of the web’s furry folk mascot was frivolous, perhaps, but harmless, a suitably nonsensical distraction—and what was one to post about online...

Total civilizational collapse is unusual. In the West, ­continuity exists between the Roman past and our contemporary states, despite the invasions of “barbarian” groups. The Franks, that ancient people...

During Barack Obama’s presidency, several political movements arose that were to define America long after he had left the scene. The first was organized around a new view of...

The Gospel of Matthew ends with this promise of Jesus to his disciples: “Behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age”—an eternal covenant. Now imagine...

The Etruscan centaur holds up his right hand,not palm outward as if to stop chariot trafficor solemnly swear an oath to the gods,but in time-honored Italian fashion palm inward,as...

Why do the humanities face such a hostile climate? In part it’s because academics have excluded ordinary, intelligent readers from their work. Professors in the contemporary academy...