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July 12, 2026 at 5:59 AM

Sunday Spotlight: Against . . .

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July 10, 2026 at 5:18 PM

How Trump Betrayed the Pro-Life Movement

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July 9, 2026 at 4:29 PM

Lena Dunham Sticks the Landing

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July 8, 2026 at 3:49 PM

The Invisible Hand of Faith

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July 7, 2026 at 4:26 PM

Great Books Are Not Good for Everyone

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July 7, 2026 at 10:03 AM

Readers’ Choice

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July 6, 2026 at 6:46 PM

The Priests of High Art

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July 5, 2026 at 6:01 PM

Sunday Spotlight: The American Novelist

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July 3, 2026 at 4:17 PM

Where America Is

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July 2, 2026 at 4:24 PM

Birthright Citizenship Is Living on Borrowed Time

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July 1, 2026 at 5:56 PM

Is Trump v. Barbara the New Roe?

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June 30, 2026 at 6:03 PM

More than a reader

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June 30, 2026 at 4:51 PM

Sexual Ethics Is a Social Justice Issue

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June 29, 2026 at 9:59 PM

Readers’ Choice

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June 29, 2026 at 3:41 PM

Because It’s There

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June 28, 2026 at 5:59 AM

Sunday Spotlight: The American Founding

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June 27, 2026 at 2:03 PM

The secret to consistent excellence

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June 26, 2026 at 3:42 PM

What JD Vance Found in the Church

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June 25, 2026 at 6:03 PM

Intellectual community

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June 25, 2026 at 3:29 PM

Leo’s Theology of Migration

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June 24, 2026 at 4:05 PM

Alan Greenspan, Chief Magician of Liberalism

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June 23, 2026 at 6:36 PM

Jonathan Swift’s Savage Indignation

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June 23, 2026 at 10:31 AM

Catholic. Protestant. Jewish. Three new newsletters from First Things.

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June 22, 2026 at 9:59 PM

Readers’ Choice

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June 22, 2026 at 3:25 PM

Toward Ethical Populism

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June 21, 2026 at 5:59 AM

Sunday Spotlight: Alexis de Tocqueville

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June 19, 2026 at 6:16 PM

These fragments I have shored against my ruins

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June 19, 2026 at 3:53 PM

The Iran Failure We Needed

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June 18, 2026 at 3:41 PM

What Is the Church of England For?

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June 18, 2026 at 10:02 AM

Save Your Seat at the Intellectual Retreat

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June 17, 2026 at 6:16 PM

The SSPX Leadership Against Scripture and Tradition

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June 16, 2026 at 4:41 PM

The Knicks Win, Mamdani Triumphs?

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June 15, 2026 at 9:59 PM

Readers’ Choice

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June 15, 2026 at 8:27 PM

More than a magazine

[link removed] SUPPORT FIRST THINGS ([link removed]) Dear Reader, So much of what passes for “culture” in the information age degrades rather than elevates. It’s no surprise, then, that formerly august cultural institutions have fallen into decline. Take, for instance, the literary maga…

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June 15, 2026 at 3:22 PM

Nigel Biggar’s Thick Red Line

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June 14, 2026 at 5:59 AM

Sunday Spotlight: Robert Louis Wilken

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June 12, 2026 at 3:23 PM

Neither Girlboss nor Tradwife

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June 11, 2026 at 4:08 PM

Are Latter-day Saints Christians?

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June 10, 2026 at 3:34 PM

The American Covenant’s Answer to AI

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June 9, 2026 at 4:40 PM

In Memoriam: Robert Louis Wilken

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June 8, 2026 at 9:59 PM

Readers’ Choice

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June 8, 2026 at 4:31 PM

When Eugenics Goes Viral

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June 8, 2026 at 11:01 AM

Registration closes soon!

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June 7, 2026 at 5:59 AM

Sunday Spotlight: Pride Month

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June 5, 2026 at 3:34 PM

The Long Work of Restoration

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June 4, 2026 at 3:28 PM

Pelvic Theology, Pelvic Justice

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June 3, 2026 at 3:47 PM

John Paul II and America

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June 3, 2026 at 11:01 AM

Why did God create?

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June 2, 2026 at 4:51 PM

The Throwaway Culture Advances

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June 1, 2026 at 9:59 PM

Readers’ Choice

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