Megan , who’s started a dialogue with Ellen Ruppel Shell (author of the new book Cheap ), has some ruminations on the infamous maker of shelves with short shelf lives. Lots to digest, including some deee-lightful ancedotes from the bad old days of furniture so durable you seemed to be stuck . . . . Continue Reading »
By Robert Messenger: The cocktail is a lovely simple thing: a mixture of spirits and flavorings that whets the appetite, pleases the eye, and stimulates the mind. It is one of our conspicuous contributions to cultured living, up there with the Great American Songbook and the tuxedo. Yet, like . . . . Continue Reading »
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute has an online symposium on the always interesting and provocative Rémi Brague and his book The Law of God: The Philosophical History of an Idea . From the first installment : The Law of God is Brague’s second magisterial work of intellectual history. . . . . Continue Reading »
I have warned about a coup de culture that is seeking to supplant human exceptionalism with utilitarianism, hedonism, and radical environmentalism, as the foundations of societal mores and law. In that regard, I have written here and elsewhere about how Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s . . . . Continue Reading »
First Things has moved—to new offices, just around the corner: First Things 35 East 21st Street Sixth Floor New York, New York 10010-6261 All our phone lines and email addresses will remain the same, but be sure to direct all your paper correspondence to the new address. . . . . Continue Reading »
Get your hair out of your face and check this out.Bidding ends August 9. [Rating: 8 out of . . . . Continue Reading »
My friend John Podhoretz wrote to point out that, in posting on the Moose Menorah, I’d forgotten a key moment in the history of Jews and Moose—Woody Allen on the how the Moose went to a party and . . . . Continue Reading »
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First Things blogs can now be downloaded onto your Amazon Kindle , allowing you the ability to read them even when you’re not wirelessly connected. (The print edition of the magazine will soon be available.) The Kindle provides the full text content and images of all posts, and are updated . . . . Continue Reading »
This is unbelievable: A Scot newspaper, reporting on the Debbie Purdy case, states that the Lords gave Purdy’s husband permission to take his wife to Switzerland for suicide. From the story:The law prohibiting assisted suicide is set to be clarified after a woman with multiple sclerosis . . . . Continue Reading »
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