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Keeping a Republic: A 250th Birthday Meditation

As we mark the national semiquincentennial on July 4, we might well reflect on Benjamin Franklin’s answer to Elizabeth Willing Powel, when the elderly sage left the Constitutional Convention. The post Keeping a Republic: A 250th Birthday Meditation appeared first on First Things

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Culture

The Wound That Does Not Heal

In Genesis 32:23–33, Jacob wrestles through the night with a figure Scripture describes as both man and God. The encounter ends without clean resolution: Jacob walks away with a. The post The Wound That Does Not Heal appeared first on First Things

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Exclusive: The whistleblower silenced by Facebook hits back

How do you interview someone who’s been gagged? That’s the task we set ourselves on today’s episode. Sarah Wynn-Williams - a former Facebook executive turned whistleblower author - is not allowed to talk about Facebook, or her book, Careless People. She’s not allowed to. She’s not even allowed to discuss the lawsuit that’s been slapped on her. Or how she’s finally responded with one of her own. This is her story - told by another woman who knows how silence can be used to control and intimida...

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