Our May 2016 issue of First Things is hot of the press and available on our website. As a special piece of bonus content, I am here to share with you, loyal readers, some of our also-ran titles: headings for pieces that were suggested at our titles meeting but nixed for being too punny, too punchy, or simply too much.
In the list below, the final title of the piece is in bold, and the nixed titles are listed below it. Enjoy!
College Without Truth by Molly Oshatz
The Fragility of the American College Student
Click Fix by Marc Barnes
Over-Imaged Age
Look At Me by Patricia Snow
Through a Screen, Darkly
Reclaiming Attention
A Church that Was by Peter Hitchens
Lovely Disturbing Things
Never Such Innocence
Scientific Regress by William A. Wilson
Bad Data
The Baseless Pride of Science
Mormons Approaching Orthodoxy by Richard J. Mouw
As Man Now Is, God Once Was
Slouching Toward Orthodoxy?
The Losers’ Elegeist by Samuel Goldman
Reluctant Icon (nixed on the grounds that the word “icon” in titles is “tired”)
Alexi Sargeant is a Junior Fellow at First Things.
Moral Certitude and the Iran War
The current military engagement with Iran calls renewed attention to just war theory in the Catholic tradition.…
The Slow Death of England: New and Notable Books
The fate of England is much in the news as popular resistance to mass immigration grows, limits…
Ethics of Rhetoric in Times of War
What we say matters. And the way we say it matters. This is especially true in times…