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McClay on Italians 2006
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Christianity and American politics
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American democracy and rights
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The Challenge of Christmas
This article is part of our 2023 year-end campaign series, featuring reflections from prominent authors on why First Things matters. To make your year-end campaign gift now, visit firstthings.com/donate. Richard...
1619 Rightly Understood
African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Idealsby david hackett fischersimon & schuster, 960 pages, $40 One of the most important things to be said about the New York...
The Claims of Memory
I write in defense of memory. Not Memory in her gaudy mythological form, the Titan goddess Mnemosyne, mother of the nine Muses—but memory as the glue that holds our...
Tucker Carlson, Class Traitor
The Long Slide: Thirty Years in American Journalismby tucker carlsonthreshold editions, 288 pages, $28 Tucker Carlson has become such a fixture in the world of cable-television news that it’s...
Of Statues and Symbolic Murder
In our culture, we have gotten so used to the idea that “iconoclasm” is a good and admirable thing, a vigorous rethinking of hoary pieties and staid traditions, that...
Hebraism Redoubled
The blow to Christian egos may not be such a bad thing. Christians, particularly those in the West who are heirs to many centuries of political and cultural dominance,...
Liberalism After Liberalism
Liberalism After 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...
The Desert’s Austere Grace
It is not the kind of road you ever want to find yourself driving on in a hard rain or at night—or, if you are seriously acrophobic, at any...
The Living City
Works of social criticism often do not wear well, and even the best of them tend to fade in interest by their fiftieth birthday. Either the tools of analysis...
