1. I have to say that Pete’s last two posts display a very singular integration of his personal experiences etc. into his policy analysis. He’s ready to turn pro and needs an agent. I, of course, will plagiarize the heck out of the development of informed conservative opinion on health . . . . Continue Reading »
Dear Readers, First Things is a non-profit. For more than twenty years readers have provided donations that have sustained the journal. Now the electronic age presents new challenges. I’ve written to our subscribers, who have responded with generosity. Now I’m writing to you directly on . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m currently working on an introduction to a book I’m co-editing on one of the greatest films about communism, The Lives of Others , and I’m wondering what other films there are that portray life under communist oppression that our readers know about. There don’t seem to be . . . . Continue Reading »
Proposition 29 was strikingly similar in concept to Proposition 71, which created the benighted California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in 2004. Proposition 29 would tax cigarettes. Proposition 71 borrowed money. Both were designed to use the money thereby obtained to . . . . Continue Reading »
David Blankenhorn hasn’t changed his mind about marriage, but he has changed his stance. The best that one can say of the New York Times op-ed in which he shifts his footing is that it is clearly heartfelt. But it raises many questions, not least being how Blankenhorn can . . . . Continue Reading »
Reihan Salam writing on why some Republican politicians have switched sides on a federal health insurance purchase mandate: As with SOPA, the fact that a large number of Republican lawmakers in 1993 backed an individual mandate doesn’t necessarily mean (alas) that they had thought deeply about . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter J. Leithart on Ray Bradbury, poet of summer’s end : Ray Bradbury, who died on June fifth at the age of ninety-one, will be remembered as a writer of science fiction or, as he preferred, fantasy. That’s not surprising. As the obituaries have emphasized, he imagined ATMs, the . . . . Continue Reading »
Dominicana , the publication of the Dominican students of the St. Joseph Province, is supporting the Catholic bishops’ Fortnight for Freedom by providing free access to “Salt and Light: An Interview with Chris Smith” from today until July 4th: “Salt and Light” is one . . . . Continue Reading »
So I don’t want to give the impression that heresies are all bad. They’re usually partly good: They highlight part of the truth that had been obscured or neglected. They’re rebellions that have a Christian point. Consider this partial affirmation of the heretical modern—or . . . . Continue Reading »
Tom Berg, who sits on DFL’s board, quotes their statement at Mirror of Justice : The definition, unprecedented in federal law in its narrowness, fails to give equal respect to the activities of service, mercy, and justice that lie at the core of religious practice for many faiths. . . . . Continue Reading »
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