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We Are All Postliberals Now | Inaugural Neuhaus Lecture
In this episode, First Things brings you the recording of the Inaugural Neuhaus Lecture presented by Patrick J. Deneen. Please subscribe at www.firstthings.com/subscribe in order to access this and many other great...
Ostracizing Claremont
The American Political Science Association (APSA) is the main professional organization for academics who work, teach, and research in the area of political science. It hosts an annual meeting...
What To Know About Amy Coney Barrett
Amy Coney Barrett is my neighbor and friend. This fact, along with my complete lack of familiarity or expertise in her scholarly and judicial work, gives me no special...
Replace the Elite
The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Eliteby michael lind portfolio, 224 pages, $25 Michael Lind’s The New Class War is sure to be one of the...
Corporate Progressivism
From Tolerance to Equality: How Elites Brought America to Same-Sex Marriageby darel e. paulbaylor, 256 pages, $39.95 In 2013, the Supreme Court reversed a determination by the Internal Revenue...
The Ignoble Lie
During one of the more infamous moments in Plato’s Republic, Socrates suggests that the ideal city needs a founding myth—what he calls “a noble lie”—to ensure its success. The...
Moral Minority
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation by Rod Dreher Sentinel, 272 pages, $25 Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a...
The Power Elite
As the dust from the recent explosion over Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act begins to settle, one thing is clear: Republicans and Christians lost, Democrats and gay activists won....
Against Great Books
For many years, traditionalist thinkers have promoted the teaching of a set of core texts—the “great books”—as a vital element of a liberal arts education during a time when...
It’s a Destructive Life
Frank Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life portrays the decent life of a small-town American, George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart), an everyman who saves his community from an evil Scrooge—Henry F....
President Obama’s Campaign for Leviathan
Based on a report in yesterday’s Bloomberg , the decision by the Obama Administration to require many religious institutions to provide contraception through existing health care plans is bearing...
Unsustainable Liberalism
“Unsustainable Liberalism” is one of three addresses given to a symposium on “After Liberalism,” put on in late February with the support of the Simon/Hertog Fund for Policy Analysis...
“Forward” Into a Sterile Future
Stumping in Iowa on May 24, President Obama declared, “We don’t need another political fight about ending a woman’s right to choose, or getting rid of Planned Parenthood, or...
E.J. Dionne and the Contradiction of Progressive Catholicism
For over seven years, I have had a mailbox just above E.J. Dionne’s in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. E.J. and I have always shared cordial relationships,...
“For the Salvation of Souls”: A Farewell to Georgetown
In yesterday’s Washington Post , in anticipation of today’s address by Health and Human Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at Georgetown University as part of its graduation exercises, the editorial staff...
