Midge the Magnificent I first met Midge Decter during the mid-1980s through neoconservative publishing circles in New York, a world as distant from today’s as it was, in turn, from the time of the Second World War. Though no one back then knew it, those years...
Children of the Porn If pandemic exhaustion, galloping inflation, and talk of World War III haven’t yet gotten you down, Rethinking Sex: A Provocation might do the trick. This is not the fault of author Christine Emba, whose prose in this short book is stylish,...
More, Fisher – and More On the feast of St. Thomas Becket, it’s fitting to recall just how exacting the clash between religious faith and earthly powers can be. Some ages, like his, create martyrs. Our own age more often bullies people out of martyrdom pre-emptively,...
2021: Our Year In Books The stranger the times, the better the books, or so the abundance of 2021 suggests. Several new companions bear special mention to readers of First Things. Jesuit at Large, the posthumous collection of essays by Paul V. Mankowski, S.J.,...
Millennials, Put Away Childish Political Things As the election results of 2021 suggest a chill in the air for the left, the time has come to talk to younger voters—millennials and Generation Z—about America’s future. The message can be distilled in a single sentence:...
