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So many have been stripped of their religious imagination by a culture that mocks faith and by schools that abhor religion; yet they are awkwardly groping their way back into the eternal fold of the truth. |
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There's a classical education rebellion brewing nationwide, led by and millions of fed-up parents.
Thank you to for publishing my piece on classical learning and how policymakers can bolster the CLT revolution.
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More than two hundred new classically oriented schools have opened across the country in just the last two years. |
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First Things has published poetry in its pages from the beginning. I can’t pick a favorite poem, but one I have returned to over the years is by the late Wilmer Mills, called “Dream Vocation.” |
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I too was once enslaved—shackled by chains of sin and death. Long before I was even born, though, the Greatest Emancipator paid the price to set me free.
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“Follow the model and you will be successful.” The numbers agree full-throatedly.
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When it comes to technological progress, the elder Fukuyama disregards the brakes that his younger self was at pains to set up.
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Style has always mattered, but it matters even more in our utilitarian age. Help us fight the good literary fight. |
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There are incessant demands on our attention from multiple directions. Notice how these accounts have much in common with End Times discourse deplored by sophisticates. Don’t parrot them. Resist. Mock. Ignore. |
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When you open First Things or firstthings.com, you know you will find a sincere attempt to apply first principles to questions of public life.
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In the first chapter of his recent book, Michael Lind handily disposes of the standard productivity-driven theory of wages, “The Big Lie.” |
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Dale Ahlquist joins the podcast and talks about his efforts to bring G. K. Chesterton back into the public eye. Hear more about this important journey here.
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If the translation of a single, not very complex sentence can give rise to such differences in meaning, imagine the cumulative effects of different translations over an entire book!
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More than thirty thousand Canadians have died by lethal injection since assisted suicide was legalized to reduce suffering in our society. Instead, we have seen it multiply a thousandfold. |
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Truth. That’s something on which First Things will not compromise.
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Don’t let a formidable title deter you from this impressive second book by Bronwen McShea, a brilliant young historian who knows how to tell a story. Find out more here.
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Church architecture can do much in helping the faithful to pray. How so? Listen here.
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Obdurate Nature is the great enemy of progressive sexuality, which is the sort in common practice today, and which is founded on the inalienable right to do what you like with yourself without any trouble.
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If you asked average Catholics if they had to choose between attending Mass on Sunday without receiving Communion, or receiving Communion without attending Mass, I would guess that the majority would choose the latter. They would have chosen poorly.
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Where have you gone, Vin Scully? Dodger nation turns its lonely eyes to you. |
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Standing firm on the ground of orthodoxy does invite negative consequences, but it also rouses solidarity. Whenever I meet fellow First Things readers, whether intentionally or by chance, I leave profoundly encouraged.
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What would the 2023 equivalent of a “message in a bottle” or time capsule be? |
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One of the most important things to be said about the New York Times’ loud but intellectually threadbare effort to recast the year 1619 as the date of the American nation’s “true founding” is that it was a missed opportunity.
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Suicide activists forget that human beings need each other, and that to offer (and even encourage) the sufferer to sever all bonds of love by state-facilitated suicide is to cause seismic social suffering. |
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There were two Chesterton Academies in 2014, and now there are forty-five. There are sixteen starting next year. What’s their secret? Listen here.
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Even the “mundane” happenings of a single day exceed our grasp (see Joyce’s Ulysses), let alone the span of a lifetime. |
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Until baseball appeared, humans were a sad and benighted lot, lost in the labyrinth of matter, dimly and achingly aware of something incandescently beautiful and unattainable, something infinitely desirable shining up above in the empyrean of the ideas.
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My latest :
"Bourdain’s little daughter was denied her father not because he did not love her, but because he did not want to stay. For Bourdain’s loved ones, their unbearable suffering began the moment they found out about his suicide."
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Michael Lind's new book offers a roadmap for renewing an authentically conservative politics in America. |
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First Things offers readers spiritual and practical encouragement, which can be as simple as the reminder that you are not alone in your faith or your questions.
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Given conservatives’ longstanding emphasis on the dignity of work, Lind’s proposal to build a political movement around the empowerment of workers, and the just reward for their labor, is one that the right should leap to embrace. |
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The argument of suicide activists is that the right to bodily autonomy includes the right to suicide, and that legalization is necessary in order to reduce suffering in society. The reality we see unfolding tells a very different story. |
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Dale Ahlquist and Mark Bauerlein discuss Chesterton Academy and its eponymous writer G. K. Chesterton. Listen now!
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Join R. R. Reno and Harrison Butker as they discuss the importance of magnanimity in their own lives, in the church, and in the world.
firstthings.com/events/harriso
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First Things fights against our tendencies to be God-forgetful in public life.
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Given current confusions in American education, the category of “Classics Worth Re-Reading” is becoming the category of “Classics Worth Reading.” Some recommendations below.
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We want to hear from readers like you—why does First Things matter? | #2023SpringCampaign