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A selection of recent articles on this topic
Saving Rock and Roll
Rock and roll has a rebellious sound. I write that hesitantly, because there is really no such…
A Tribute to the Humble Hamentaschen
Remarks delivered at Princeton University’s 2014 Annual Latke-Hamentaschen Debate. Our semi-official second national motto is e pluribus…
Escaping the Exemptions Ghetto
As the cases challenging the Health and Human Servicesmandate make their way through the courts, the main…
Narrative Collapse?
Narrativity is collapsing, Douglas Rushkoff excitedly reports in his 2012 book Present Shock. We no longer tell traditional…
Progressive Rock Redeemed
On February 9, I had the pleasure of finally seeing one of my favorite bands for the…
ArtHistoryGate
It is a bipartisan moment to be cherished. Rick Santorum called the President a snob for wanting…
The Fashioned Self
This week, over 100,000 fashion insiders will gather in New York’s Lincoln Center for dozens of designer…
Sleepers
Where are the Gods that used to walk the Weald,Where are their golden limbs and fiery faces,…
The John Paul II difference in 1989
Twenty-five years ago, on Jan. 27, 1989, a joint statement from the communist government of Poland, the…
Pete Seeger: The Communist Consumers Loved
During the 1950s and 1960s, when Pete Seeger and Malvina Reynolds coaxed classrooms full of kids to…
New Year’s Habits
New Year’s Resolutions tend to focus on new skills and habits to acquire. This is the year…
2013 in Review
As 2013 draws to a close I’d like to look back at the past year for First…
Punk Rock Catholicism
“In many and various ways,” the Letter to the Hebrews tells us, does God reveal Himself. I…
Lynne Hybels, Evangelicals, and Israel
There is a small but growing movement among evangelicals against unique friendship for Israel, embodied by the…
Apple Graveyard
Jon Berkeley’s illustration for a January 2010 Economist cover depicts Steve Jobs as a modern Moses with…
