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In this episode, Micah Mattix joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about Portico, a new literary quarterly published by the Institute on Religion and Public Life.
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When I was growing up, it wasn’t uncommon to hear women bemoan their husbands’ absence from church. I remember scanning the pews of St. Peter’s in Plattsburgh, New York, a French Catholic town in the North Country. Most of the men were either elderly or sleeping.
This was not just my imagination. Today men born between 1960 and 1980 attend weekly church at rates bet...
This essay was delivered as the First Things 2026 Neuhaus Lecture at the New College of Florida.
The contemporary university is widely acknowledged to be in crisis. Loss of public confidence, relentless tuition increases, and intensifying debates over speech and academic freedom have called into question its purpose and institutional legitimacy...
Like practically everyone else, I loved Project Hail Mary, the runaway science fiction mega-hit film that has so far garnered over $600 million in worldwide revenue. Everything about the movie is wonderful: the gorgeous, luminous visuals (thank cinematographer Greig Fraser of the Dune films); the fact that directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (of L...