Under One Umbrella
Linda Heuman, Tricycle
How Heavy Metal Tracks the Wealth of Nations
Richard Florida, City Lab
Thomas Piketty, a Not-So-Radical French Thinker
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, Wall Street Journal
Not Everybody Loves a Parade
Kate Havard, The Weekly Standard
I Am Haunted by Waters
Timothy Danaher, O.P., Dominicana
Belgian Jews Gather to Mourn after Museum Attack
Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Life and Death in the Trenches
Lauren Hansen and Sarah Eberspacher, The Week
Remembering Arthur Gelb, Who Helped Reconcile the ‘Times’ to Its Jewishness
Samuel G. Freedman, Tablet
Nigel Farage Has Made Politics Interesting Again
Iain Martin, The Telegraph
Judging Spinoza
Steven Nadler, New York Times
Gerald McDermott has been prosecuting a case against a certain version of evangelical theology over the past few years (see here and here). His fundamental point is the need to recover the Great Tradition within Evangelicalism and thus to read scripture in and through the lens of the church spread out through time. To fail to read scripture in this way, according to McDermott, is to hold to nuda scriptura in which the interpretation of scripture is reduced to the application of current sensibilities that reinforce the autonomy of the late-modern individual. When personal interpretation trumps the tradition, McDermott wonders how one can ever move beyond a new kind of Babylonian captivity, the captivity of interpretation to a modern cultural milieu. Continue Reading »
Confidentially Yours: The Banality of the Celebrity Profile and How It Got That Way
Anne Helen Petersen, The Believer
Beauty is Truth: There’s a False Equation
Philip Ball, Aeon
Why Harvard Was Right Not to Ban the Black Mass
Robert T. Miller, Public Discourse
The Don’s Don
Katy Waldman, Slate
The Pacification of Rio, as Observed from a Gondola
Amy Moran-Thomas, Boston Review
What does it mean to be pro-middle-class? Continue Reading »
We are coming to the end of First Things’ two-week digital fundraising campaign. When we started this campaign, we weren’t sure how much support we could expect from our online readers, and we set a goal of $20,000. I’m thrilled to report that, thanks to the generosity of folks like you, we have raised nearly $30,000 thus far! Continue Reading »
Season Seven, Episode Six of Mad Men, titled “The Strategy,” takes as its subject families—how they are configured; and success—how it is defined; and happiness—in what it consists; and how all these matters overlap. Continue Reading »
Conservatives Must Increase Economic Security not Undermine It
Anna Sutherland, Millennial
Can Google Search for Friendship?
Leah Libresco, The American Conservative
I’m Sorry Ms. Jackson
Chris Morgan, American Spectator
Main Street, USA
Matt Ray Robison, The Morning News
Descartes’s Other Side
Catherine Wilson, Times Literary Supplement
Why it is that conservatives (as distinct from libertarians) are seen as “trying to dismantle the welfare state and remove all economic regulations” when this obviously is not the case? So asks Greg Forster. He’s right that this is one of the many lines of attack from the left, but I don’t think that the biggest problem conservatives face is the sense from the public that conservatives want to get rid of the welfare state. I think that the real problem for conservatives is the idea that they are pro-rich and either ignorant or contemptuous of the priorities of the non-rich. Continue Reading »
For First Things readers in the neighborhood: On June 20, the Center for Law and Religion will co-host a conference, “International Religious Freedom and the Global Clash of Values,” at the Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta in Rome. The conference will bring together American and European scholars and officials; proceedings will be in English and Italian with simultaneous translation.
Panels will include “Comparative Perspectives on International Religious Freedom,” “Christian and Muslim Perspectives on International Religious Freedom,” and “The Politics of International Religious Freedom.” Participants will include Abdullahi An-Na’im, Pasquale Annicchino, Heiner Bielefeldt, Giuseppe Dalla Torre, Marc DeGirolami, Thomas Farr, Ken Hackett, Monica Lugato, Mark Movsesian, Francisca Pérez-Madrid, Olivier Roy, Nina Shea, Marco Ventura, John Witte, and Roberto Zaccaria.
For details and information about registration, please click here.
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