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Paul Finebaum is known as “the mouth of the South,” but he does a lot of listening. This is the secret to his success as the host of a. The post Talkin’ God and Football appeared first on First Things
I didn’t like doing my spring cleaning in March. March is cold on Wildcat Mountain. It was twenty degrees in the daytime, five degrees at night. Two and a. The post Seven Years Alone on Wildcat Mountain appeared first on First Things
Pundits tell us that we are moving beyond the culture wars. Left and right are merging in their common judgment that liberalism has reached a dead end. Something new. The post Creedal Orthodoxy Won’t Save Us appeared first on First Things
There is a long-running strain of New Testament criticism, associated most famously with Albert Schweitzer, that places great weight on the theme of deferred apocalyptic expectation. On this paradigm. The post The Apocalypse That Wasn’t appeared first on First Things
Born at the end of the Millennial generation, Charlie Kirk rose to prominence in tandem with Donald Trump. Kirk seemed tailored for the Trump era. His tall frame projected. The post Charlie Kirk’s Evangelical Populism appeared first on First Things
Germany finds itself in a strange situation. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) is steadily growing in popularity, as shown by its September 6 victory in Sachsen-Anhalt, where it came. The post Germany’s Illiberal “Liberal” Democracy appeared first on First Things
A new play inspired by the seven-film Paranormal Activity series is now on stage at the August Wilson Theatre in New York City. At the heart of the play. The post The Horror of an Impotent God appeared first on First Things
With Constitution Day taking place this month, a few books on the Founding of our republic are worth notice. Is the U.S. Constitution a democratic instrument? Some scholars argue that. The post Words That Made a Nation: New and Notable Books appeared first on First Things
Several weeks after Islamist terrorists hijacked four planes, wreaking havoc in lower Manhattan and at the Pentagon in the name of deranged religious convictions, I was at dinner in. The post Unlearned Lessons of 9/11, a Quarter-Century Later appeared first on First Things
The editors discuss Trump’s renaming craze and its implications for international politics, the decay of academia in light of the Jason Arday scandal, and the upcoming twenty-fifth anniversary of. The post Everything Is America appeared first on First Things
On August 25, Judge John Z. Lee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled that the First Amendment protects the right of Americans to possess. The post AI Child Porn and the Libertarian Lie appeared first on First Things
Studies in Machiavellian Political Philosophyby michael antonencounter books, 466 pages, $43.99 In his Apologia ad Carolum Quintum, English cardinal Reginald Pole claimed that Thomas Cromwell told him in 1529. The post Unmaking Machiavelli’s Modernity appeared first on First Things