“Identity Politics: Guilt and the Scapegoat”
Official trailer with Dr. Joshua Mitchell
Releases 1/27.
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The Great Hearts Institute is hosting a National Symposium for Classical Education. Should you be there? Mark and Robert Jackson discuss:
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The Straussian school’s lively intellectual diversity can be traced to the difficulty of pinning down, in Strauss’s enigmatic writings, his own answers to the questions that he insisted were of highest importance.
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Let's tear Dante out of the “classics” category and make him feel risky and daring and dizzying, all over again.
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Releasing this Friday: “Identity Politics: Guilt and the Scapegoat,” by Dr. Joshua Mitchell.
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Cardinal Parolin’s views of Chinese Leaders ought to raise serious issues for those who imagine him as Pope Francis’s successor.
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Classical schools are thriving because parents aren’t interested in enrolling their children in grand social experiments. |
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The main reason that classical schools are thriving in the current environment is that parents aren’t interested in enrolling their children in grand social experiments.
My latest!
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Michael Heinlein’s new biography captures the character of the remarkable churchman, Cardinal Francis George, with exceptional insight and skill.
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Dante did the unthinkable: He translated a mystic pilgrimage to the stars (a perfect subject for Latin) into the language of the flesh and body and mud and blood.
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Be silent. Hush. Take up the sound of ooze
like oil from olives that the presses bruise.
Or be the sound of fresh baked loaves, the sound
of seeds beneath the stony, sun-packed ground.
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CORRECTION: Mark Bauerlein is joined by *Robert Jackson*.
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Classical education is on the rise! Mark Bauerlein and Jason Baxter discuss:
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When Christendom splintered and was nearly overrun by the Moors, few would have predicted the spiritual Renaissance soon to be advanced by humanistic Jesuits and others, or the extraordinary mission to the New World, or the abundance of saints.
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Understanding the theological, moral, and epistemological gulf that often exists between first- and second-generation Muslim immigrants is key to understanding the nuanced positions within the American Muslim community.
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Francis George was a good and faithful servant. And has written a biography worthy of his life.
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Dante is constantly code-switching from a classical in-the-head way of speaking to one that is more in-the-blood and in-the-nerves.
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For many Muslims today Islam is less a religion with truth claims about the nature of God and mankind’s relationship to him than an aggrieved identity group among other identity groups.
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Mark and Robert Jackson discuss the growth of classical education, and some opportunities for teachers administrators to develop their schools.
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Tate‘s alleged conversion to Islam was a pathetic attempt to borrow credibility from a worldview that he hopes will help him cosplay as an ancient warlord rather than a promiscuous porn peddler.
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Subscribe to the First Things YouTube channel to watch the latest trailers, video essays, event recordings, and much more!
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The Ozarks ain’t Scotland, and there’s no Macduff waiting in the wings. Turns out you can keep wading through that river of blood all the way to the other side, and it just doesn’t matter if the damned spot can’t be scrubbed off.
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“Identity Politics: Guilt and the Scapegoat”
Official trailer:
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“When a nation becomes ill, what then?” - Dr. Joshua Mitchell
Watch:
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In our postmodern culture, our gaze has turned completely inward. We now see blasphemy as a crime against our new god: the self.
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Christ instructed us in the Great Commission to disciple the nation. It is high time the Church of England returned her focus to Christ and to caring for his body. |
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Futurists exclaim that brain-integrated, silicon-based “hardware” memory will be used to augment our natural memories. Count me unimpressed.
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Knowing that he was innocent of the absurd charges, Pell courageously turned 404 days in prison into an extended retreat, during which he wrote three volumes of reflections that have given spiritual comfort and encouragement to readers around the world.
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Revelation, Christ, and Church are great themes throughout Benedict’s ministry.
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Mark’s latest podcast addresses elite wokeism, George Floyd, and the death of the university, with Alexander Riley.
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When it comes to the laws of progressive culture, he who is guilty in one point is guilty in all.
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I didn’t want the Byrdes to get away with it, and I wanted a few of their victims to find justice.
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Tate tells men to take back their lives and assert control—at the expense of women.
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“Identity Politics: Guilt and the Scapegoat” OFFICIAL TRAILER.
Releases 1/27.
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“The question I ask my students and ask of you is this: what would you do to lift the burden of guilt?”
- Dr. Joshua Mitchell
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Lots of bad people get their deserts, but the world of “Ozark” is one where sinners cannot be laundered and aren’t judged.
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Andrew Tate is a creature of the sexual revolution who advocates masculinity without virtue, strength without tenderness, and casual cruelty by right of conquest. |
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“Identity Politics: Guilt and the Scapegoat,” a video essay from First Things Magazine with Dr. Joshua Mitchell, releases next Friday!
Watch the trailer:
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If gay partnerships are legitimate, why deny them the status of marriage? And if they are not legitimate, why bless them?
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“We are all feeling it today, a general sense of confusion, the sense that the foundational middle has been lost.” - Dr. Joshua Mitchell
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