There’s a very short and very brutal poem by the Scottish poet Hollie McNish, written in 2019 and titled “Conversation with an archaeologist”: he said they’d found a brothel...| First Things
This essay is an abridged version of a speech originally delivered on July 16, 2019, at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C. I want to talk a little...| First Things
The most shining moment of my education as a physics major at UC Santa Barbara came in the final lecture of an upper-division course on electricity and magnetism. We had learned...| First Things
Anyone who doubts that the abolition of man is a present-day reality need only look at the British headlines from the past few weeks. The House of Commons approved...| First Things
Hopeful Pessimism by mara van der lugt princeton university press, 280 pages, $24.95 Is it possible to be a “hopeful pessimist”? Mara van der Lugt, professor of philosophy at the...| First Things
A Rahnerian Surprise | First Things
Father Justin was rightly defrocked within two days of his public debut. “Father Justin” was the name given to the AI-powered chatbot recently launched by Catholic Answers as an...| First Things