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January 29, 2026

Nuns Don’t Want to Be Priests

Sixty-four percent of American Catholics say the Church should allow women to be ordained as priests, according to Pew Research. In several Latin American countries, women’s ordination is even. The post Nuns Don’t Want to Be Priests appeared first on First Things

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🎭 Culture
January 29, 2026

Introducing Secret Third Thing

First Things is proud to introduce a new podcast series. Secret Third Thing is a show about contemporary culture. First Things editors Virginia Aabram and Germán S. Díaz del. The post Introducing Secret Third Thing appeared first on First Things

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🏛️ Politics
January 29, 2026

Ben Horowitz and Balaji Srinivasan on Netscape and Network States

Can a country be built from the internet up? Not as a metaphor or an online community, but as a system that replaces institutions we usually think of as fixed, money, law, and governance. In this conversation taken from The Network State Podcast, a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz joins Balaji Srinivasan to explore how internet native institutions are beginning to mirror and challenge traditional state structures. Drawing parallels to China’s early special economic zones, they discuss how constraine...

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