First Things RSS Feed - Amy L. Wax https://www.firstthings.com/author/amy-l-wax en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:51:50 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/amy-l-wax 60 Experiments in Matrimony https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/02/experiments-in-matrimony https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/02/experiments-in-matrimony Wed, 01 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0500 Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy, and the Future of Marriage
 by stephen macedo
 princeton, 320 pages, $29.95

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]]> On Libertines https://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/10/on-libertines https://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/10/on-libertines Tue, 01 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0400 The 2013 Oscar ceremony, says Ross Douthat, revealed “the movie business’s essential schizophrenia, which is also the schizophrenia of post-1960s cultural liberalism writ large.” On display were “the official commitment to high-minded principles of equality and human dignity,” represented by a cameo appearance by Michelle Obama, the “tsarina of contemporary liberalism,” as well as vulgar, profane, and jejune riffs exemplifying “the ‘whatever sells’ libertinism that tends to undercut those ideals at every turn.”

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]]> From the December First Things: “Just Kidding” https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2012/12/from-the-december-first-things-just-kidding https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2012/12/from-the-december-first-things-just-kidding Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:01:00 -0500 Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate
by Christine Overall
MIT, 272 pages, $27.95

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]]> Just Kidding https://www.firstthings.com/article/2012/12/just-kidding https://www.firstthings.com/article/2012/12/just-kidding Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate
by Christine Overall
MIT, 272 pages, $27.95

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