Pope Leo XIV marked World Day Against the Death Penalty, observed on October 10, with the following message on X: The death penalty is inadmissible because it is ...

According to the online Encyclopedia Britannica, Sir Moses Montefiore (1784–1885) was “an Italian-born businessman who was noted for his philanthropy and support of Jewish rights.” In the England to ...

I appreciate J. H. H. Weiler’s desire for God’s mercy to be extended to Gentiles and his commitment to Torah (“The Scandal of Jewish Belief,” August/September 2026). However, it ...

At a semiannual conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, D. Todd Christofferson—one of the Church’s most senior leaders—declared forcefully that “gambling is morally wrong.” He ...

I am not usually given to apocalypticism, but I think I got the imagery exactly right when, in 2001, I called my brother and described the ruins left by the demolition of Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium ...

For roughly a week in September, Jacob Coxon, an obscure researcher at AI giant Anthropic, was the most famous person on the planet. Shortly after resigning his position at the company, Coxon took to ...

How would you write a public letter that you know will become front-page news? Would you write it yourself, or would you have a team of lawyers or a public relations firm write it for you? Or would ...

Sally Thomas is an American poet, fiction writer, and essayist. Her books include a novel, a collection of short stories, two poetry chapbooks, and two full-length collections of poetry, including the ...

We wish that we could pass this play over, and say nothing about it. All that we can say must fall far short of the subject; or even of what we ourselves conceive of it.” So William Hazlitt, in ...

In his weekly catecheses on Vatican II, Pope Leo is now discussing Gaudium et Spes, one of the more controversial conciliar documents. Critics charged that, by revising its earlier condemnations of ...

In this episode, First Things senior editor Dan Hitchens joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his recent essay, “The Making of Roger Scruton,” from the October 2026 issue of the ...

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