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First Links — 2.19.16
What Donald Trump and Pope Francis Actually Have in CommonMatthew Schmitz, Washington Post Lent for OverachieversLeah Libresco,…
Martin Shkreli and the Crisis of Corporate Conscience
A few months ago, BBC News suggested that “Martin Shkreli, the 32-year-old chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals,…
Separating Israel
Israel suffers the first cycle of plagues along with the Egyptians. Their water turns to blood; their…
Theopolis Junior Fellows Program
The church has faced many challenges in her two thousand year history. Bishops and priests evangelized Romans…
Delivered Up For Us All
Thomas asks whether the Father delivered the Son to the Passion (ST III, 47, 3). His answer…
Milton as Propagandist and Poet
In his classic study of Psychological Warfare, Paul Linebarger offers historical examples of successful and unsuccessful psychological…
What Anselm Didn’t Do
Harnack didn’t much like Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo. Toward the end of his summary and critique in…
Blood of the Son
At Theopolis this week, we spent a long time poring over the strange episode in Exodus 4:24-26.…
ISIS, Genocide, and Us
The Monuments Men was a disappointing movie, but one of its most chilling scenes sticks in my…
The Deliberator
In this election season of sound bites, bluster, and bombast, more unexpected than the rise of so-called…
Titles We Didn’t Choose — March 2016
Today we released the March 2016 edition of First Things on our website. For the amusement of…
The Revolution Eats One of Its Own Midwives
I do not often find myself in sympathy with gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell. Indeed, I still…
The Dogmatic Necessity of AD 70
Raymund Schwager (Jesus in the Drama of Salvation) that human beings are “simultaneously involved in two situations.…
Orthodox “Invasion”
When Pope Francis met with the Russian Patriarch Kirill met last Friday, it was an ecumenical moment…
Unutterable Groans
Israel’s suffering in Egypt was intense. Israel’s growth spooked Pharaoh. Multiplying and spreading and growing, Israel looked…
