First Things RSS Feed - Jonathan Price https://www.firstthings.com/author/jonathan-price en-us Copyright 2024 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Sat, 23 Nov 2024 05:23:03 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/jonathan-price 60 Remembering Sir Roger https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/01/remembering-sir-roger https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/01/remembering-sir-roger Fri, 17 Jan 2020 10:55:00 -0500 Or is there some complaint,
 Some little shred of “I” you meant 
 To leave with us as ours?

 -Roger Scruton, “The Half-Loved Ones” ( Be Attitudes , 1997)

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]]> Night Train to Europe https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/06/night-train-to-europe https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/06/night-train-to-europe Tue, 04 Jun 2019 13:50:00 -0400 My train departed from Amsterdam and headed to Warsaw.

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]]> Culture By Subtraction https://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/02/culture-by-subtraction https://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/02/culture-by-subtraction Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0500 Could I get some mayonnaise with these fries?” I asked the garçon in my broken French, imagining I was being a bit chic in eschewing ketchup. “ Impossible !” he replied. I tried to rephrase the question in the certain knowledge that I am among the world’s best speakers of broken French. “ Non ,” he said and added another “ Impossible !” Then, seeing my surprise at his first reply turn into confusion at his second, he explained that the fries were meant to be eaten au jus —with what was a gravy, really—or else the taste would be, and here he switched to English, “destroyed by the invasion of condiments.”

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