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Over on the Postmodern Conservative blog, James Ceaser talks about our current intra-galactic policy : Most Americans may not realize it, but the United States Government now has what amounts to an official intra-galactic policy. Our position was formulated in the decision to allow the Pioneer and . . . . Continue Reading »

Last Friday, a minor ruckus arose when Amazon Kindle owners found that unauthorized editions of George Orwell’s books had been automatically deleted from their e-book readers. Glenn Reynold’s has a short , but revealing post, on the controversy: So I like my Amazon Kindle, but this . . . . Continue Reading »

Forty years ago today astronaut Buzz Aldrin made history by being the first man to take communion on the surface of the moon. Eric Metaxas relates the remarkable tale : The background to the story is that Aldrin was an elder at his Presbyterian Church in Texas during this period in his life, and . . . . Continue Reading »

The Washington Times reports on a new study The unborn have memories, according to medical researchers who used sound and vibration stimulation, combined with sonography, to reveal that the human fetus displays short-term memory from at least 30 weeks gestation - or about two months before they are . . . . Continue Reading »

Okay, so that’s not exactly what it says in the New York Times story about the Euphrates River drying up. But it’s not that far off. The shrinking of the Euphrates, a river so crucial to the birth of civilization that the Book of Revelation prophesied its drying up as a sign of the end . . . . Continue Reading »

First Things is delighted to be able to share with our readers an original essay and an exclusive interview with René Girard, one the most intriguing and influential thinkers of modern times. Unfortunately, too many of our readers may not intially grasp the appeal of his work. As our editor . . . . Continue Reading »

The mainstream media has largely ignored the story, but First Things Online has been tracking the reactions and reflections of the Pope’s latest encyclical. Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical “Caritas in Veritate” by Christopher Blosser Blosser’s post is a one-stop . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s On the Square article , physicist Stephen Barr pushes back against the idea that the practice of science must necessarily be atheistic: For Haldane and Krauss, religion is about miracles, and miracles are about magic and the irrational, and therefore belief in God stands in . . . . Continue Reading »

Taking forty-five years to finish a book project that almost no one will read in its entirety may seem . . . I don’t know, what’s a good word for disheartening? But Oxford University has been around for 913 years, which gives the school the patience to spend half a decade completing the . . . . Continue Reading »

In our May issue—now available free online —Alan Jacobs reviews the Green Bible : The project website tells us that “with over 1,000 references to the earth in the Bible, compared to 490 references to heaven and 530 references to love, the Bible carries a powerful message for the . . . . Continue Reading »