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Patterns of Piety
In this series, the First Things junior fellows share mini-essays on their current reading endeavors. Ramona TauszAssistant Editor Vittoria Colonna (1490–1547), whom Jakob Burckhardt dubbed “most famous woman in all of...
On Hot Takes and Hohenstaufen Emperors
In this series, the First Things junior fellows share mini-essays on their current reading endeavors. Ramona TauszAssistant Editor Prior to the age of hot takes and tweetstorms—that long-ago time before opinion...
Dynamics of Disembodiment
In this series, the First Things junior fellows share mini-essays on their current reading endeavors. Connor GrubaughAssistant Editor Most of us have occasion only rarely in this anesthetized age to reflect...
James and Melville, Two American Minds
In this series, the First Things junior fellows share mini-essays on their current reading endeavors. Connor GrubaughAssistant Editor Sociologists and theologians give elaborate genealogies of liberal theology as we know it...
On Max Weber and Milton
In this biweekly series, the First Things junior fellows share mini-essays on their current reading endeavors. Connor Grubaugh Assistant Editor In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber distinguishes...
The Parson and the Talmud
This is the first installment in a new biweekly series, in which the First Things junior fellows share mini-essays on their current reading endeavors. Ramona TauszJunior Fellow George Herbert,...
