First Things Podcast

Government

First Things is America's most influential journal of religion & public life.

Episodes

This Catholic Moment (ft. Matthew Schmitz)

The Church of Ratzinger (ft. Sam Zeno Conedera)

Postliberalism and Its Discontents (ft. James Wood)

Recovering the University’s Soul | 2026 Neuhaus Lecture

Disney Adulting (ft. Veronica Clarke)

Why Portico? (ft. Micah Mattix)

Is Churchill America’s Hero? (ft. Sean McMeekin)

The Return of the Mainline? (ft. Brad East)

The Sexual Abuse Crisis Is Law Crisis (ft. Michael Mazza)

Disclosure in Modern Poetry (ft. Glenn Arbery)

Our Crisis is Metaphysical | 2026 D.C. Lecture | 2026 D.C. Lecture (Presented by: Mary Harrington)

The Countryman–Foreigner Distinction (ft. Matthew Crawford)

Admiration as Inspiration (ft. Elizabeth Corey)

What Virgil Teaches America (ft. Spencer Klavan)

The Promises of Gay Liberation (ft. Scott Yenor)

The Evangelical Elite Gap (ft. Aaron Renn)

Caravaggio the Destroyer (ft. Jaspreet Singh Boparai)

The Realities of Empire (ft. Nathan Pinkoski)

The Church of Sarah Mullally (ft. Damian Thompson)

John Searle's Minds and Machines (ft. Edward Feser)