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The Impossibility of “Alt-Right Christianity”
I am not anti-Christian. I’m a Lutheran,” says Hunter Wallace, an alt-right blogger cited in Matthew Rose’s essay from our March issue, “The Anti-Christian Alt-Right.” Wallace’s objection is representative...
Denying Transcendence
Near the beginning of his Life of St. Macrina, Gregory of Nyssa hesitates over a seemingly self-evident fact about the blessed life of his late sister. “[She] was a...
Uncovering Carnage
We typically don’t bother to keep pace with the 24-hour news cycle or the daily political horserace here at First Things. Like our founder, Richard John Neuhaus, we believe...
God as Therapy in The Shack
As a high school senior in my affluent Northern California exurb, I briefly associated with a group of progressive young Evangelicals who defined themselves in opposition to the politically...
First Things, the Live Option
Christian undergraduates at elite universities often feel forced into a troubling dichotomy: They may go “all-in” for a secular education, by examining their opinions under the tutelage of an...
Campus Moralism, Old and New
As a new academic year begins, universities are redoubling their efforts to keep the peace in higher education—between the sexes, between ethnicities, between old and young, liberals and conservatives,...
