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What Is To Be Done?

First Things is a forum for different conceptions of the Good, the eternal truth, to be tested against each other and refined. Continue Reading »

22 Jun 2018 0

The Truth Is Not Enough

by Carl R. Trueman

First Things seeks to find and promote arguments that are both true in themselves and plausible to the wider world. Continue Reading »

21 Jun 2018 0

Fertility and Toxicity

by Lyman Stone

One pernicious effect of lead exposure is not widely understood: It reduces biological fertility and increases the rate of fetal death and miscarriage. Continue Reading »

21 Jun 2018 0

“Diversity” and Discrimination at Harvard

by Darel E. Paul

Harvard’s “holistic”—or what the college terms “whole-person”—review process is hurting Asian-American applicants. Continue Reading »

21 Jun 2018 0

Homelands and Social Doctrines

by George Weigel

There was serious Catholic failure in Latin America, and the bishops with whom I spoke were honest enough to admit it. Continue Reading »

20 Jun 2018 0

Taking on the Big-Money Left

by Mark Bauerlein

Religious conservatives can't rival the Left in money and power—but we do have on our side the truth of our beliefs and the laws of nature and of nature’s God. Continue Reading »

19 Jun 2018 0