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Carols and the Christmas Paradox

Veery Huleatt

Advent is the season of watching and waiting, but it is also, as the days draw nearer to Christmas, a time of hastening. There are lists of people to...

Protecting the Public Square

Veery Huleatt

When the First Things junior fellowship brought me to New York City last summer, Jane Jacobs was my tour guide. Her Death and Life of Great American Cities uncovered...

First Things: Food for the Soul

Veery Huleatt

Every so often, our readers send us pictures of their small but discerning offspring chewing their way through the latest issue of First Things. We proudly display these pictures...

The Ingredients of Christian Witness

Veery Huleatt

Two oz. scotch (cheap stuff will do just fine). 1 oz. tawny port. A handful of namkeen. These were the key ingredients of my grandfather’s 3 a.m. ritual. And,...

Burkinis, Anabaptists, and Living One’s Faith

Veery Huleatt

The image has been making its rounds on news sites and social media: a French Muslim woman sitting on the beach, being forced, in the name of “good morals...

Where Her Whimsy Took Me

Veery Huleatt

I left college with a bachelors and a long and growing reading list, with works by authors ranging from Aristophanes to Adorno. But, during a visit to a used...