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Carols and the Christmas Paradox
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
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
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
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
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
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...