Episode 13 – A Day in Court (10. 24. 16)
Literary editor Matthew Schmitz recounts his day in a Manhattan jury pool. He failed to be selected for the jury, but he made many colorful friends. Now he argues, in the spirit of Tocqueville, for...
View ArticleA Night of Poetry with Dana Gioia
First Things is pleased to host the second annual Poetry Reading with Dana Gioia. Learn more about this event at firstthings.com/poetry.
View ArticleEpisode 14 – Ashes to Ashes (10. 31. 16)
1:25 – Rusty comments on the Vatican’s new guidelines for cremation. Why has the Catholic Church traditionally favored intact burial? And why are people, including Catholics, increasingly opting for...
View ArticleCan the Religious Right Be Saved? Presented by Russell D. Moore
Now in its 29th year, the Erasmus Lecture brings world-renowned speakers to New York—including Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, Gilbert Meilaender, and Rabbi Jonathan Sacks—to...
View ArticleEpisode 15 – Cowboys, Robots, and Private Eyes (11. 4. 16)
1:10 – Senior editor Mark Bauerlein explains how classic hardboiled detective novels turn boys into men. And he does it while maintaining the lines between high culture, popular culture, and mass...
View ArticleEpisode 16 - Post-Election Roundtable (11. 12. 16)
On this episode of the First Things Podcast: Editor Rusty Reno, senior editor Mark Bauerlein, associate editor Julia Yost, and deputy editor Elliot Milco gather on the morning after Donald Trump’s...
View ArticleEpisode 17 – Poetry and Popery (11. 21. 16)
1:34 Poetry has gone viral on social media in the wake of Donald Trump’s election. Senior editor Mark Bauerlein and associate editor Julia Yost discuss what role poetry should play in public life, in...
View ArticleEpisode 18 – Post-Castro, Post-Truth (12. 5. 16)
On this episode of the FIRST THINGS Podcast: Editor Rusty Reno talks with associate editor Julia Yost about the life, death, and meaning of Fidel Castro. 1:18 The enduring allure of the bearded...
View ArticleEpisode 19 – Therapeutic Culture (12. 13. 16)
On this episode of the FIRST THINGS Podcast: Editor Rusty Reno introduces Philip Rieff’s The Triumph of the Therapeutic: The Uses of Faith after Freud. Published in 1966 and still fresh today, Rieff’s...
View ArticleEpisode 20 – A Wonderful(?) Life (12. 22. 16)
Senior editor Mark Bauerlein and associate editor Julia Yost discuss the Christmas movie everyone either loves, or loves to hate—Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Points of contention include:...
View ArticleEpisode 21 – Silence & Sherlock (1. 13. 17)
On this spoiler-filled episode of the FIRST THINGS Podcast: Associate editor Julia Yost talks with assistant editor Alexi Sargeant about Silence—the 1966 novel by Shusako Endo, newly adapted as a film...
View ArticleEpisode 22 – This American Carnage (1. 29. 17)
Senior editor Mark Bauerlein talks with associate editor Julia Yost about Donald Trump’s first week in office, from the inauguration speech to the Women’s Marches to the March for Life. Then Julia...
View ArticleEpisode 23 – Life on the Line in Ireland (2. 14. 17)
Associate editor Julia Yost talks with Senator Rónán Mullen of the Irish Parliament about the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution. The Eighth Amendment, which guarantees the legal protection of...
View ArticleEpisode 24 – Spirit and Form (2. 27. 17)
On this episode of the FIRST THINGS Podcast: Editor Rusty Reno and associate editor Julia Yost are joined by Midge Decter in a conversation about Michael Novak, who died on February 17. A theologian,...
View ArticleEpisode 25 – Faith and Fatherhood on Film (3. 16. 17)
On this episode of the FIRST THINGS Podcast: Associate editor Julia Yost talks to junior fellows Veery Huleatt and Connor Grubaugh about The Shack—the bestselling novel by William Paul Young, now a...
View ArticleEpisode 26 – Suburban Coercion (3. 31. 17)
On this episode of the FIRST THINGS Podcast: Literary editor Matthew Schmitz and associate editor Julia Yost discuss The Americans—the Cold War spy drama that raises the question, Whose approach to sex...
View ArticleEpisode 27 – Conservatism’s New Terms (4. 17. 17)
On this episode of the FIRST THINGS Podcast: Editor Rusty Reno talks to associate editor Julia Yost about a shift in the terms that govern our political debates. He argues that the primacy once given...
View ArticleEpisode 28 – A Toast to Silence (5. 23. 17)
On this episode of the FIRST THINGS Podcast: Matthew Walther, associate editor of the Washington Free Beacon, drops by the FIRST THINGS offices with a bottle of Louis Roederer non-vintage champagne. He...
View ArticleEpisode 29 – A Militant Church (7. 24. 17)
On this episode of the FIRST THINGS Podcast: Editor Rusty Reno and literary editor Matthew Schmitz talk to associate editor Julia Yost about a recent article in the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica....
View ArticleConversations with Mark Bauerlein (7. 31. 17) – Supreme Court Round-up
Mark Movsesian joins senior editor Mark Bauerlein to discuss recent cases appearing before the Supreme Court related to religious liberty. This is the first in an ongoing series of interviews on...
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