First Things

In a life of reading, there are special times of wonder and delight.

The now-ubiquitous terms “reproductive health” and “reproductive freedom” have contributed mightily to a slaughter of the innocents in these United States.

The Stade de France, the country’s largest soccer stadium, holds about 80,000 fans.

Is baptism an irreversible spiritual and ontological change or a piece of recorded personal data to be deleted on demand?

I didn’t like doing my spring cleaning in March.

On September 4, the judge declared a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case, the result of one holdout juror who prevented a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity.

See now that I myself am he!

In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, James M.

Pundits tell us that we are moving beyond the culture wars.

Economic populists often tell a version of this story: In the working-class heyday that was the post–World War II economic model, a man could put a roof over his family’s head and food on the table on just a single income.

We think the political world is divvied up into nearly two hundred distinct nations, each with mappable boundaries, a unified political system, a shared language and culture, and a shared sense of being a nation.

The Trump family’s exploitation of every opportunity to enrich themselves demoralizes me, as I’m sure it does many readers.