First Things RSS Feed - Brandon Watson https://www.firstthings.com/author/brandon-watson en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:51:54 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/brandon-watson 60 Overt and Conspicuous Religious Symbols https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/09/overt-and-conspicuous-religious-symbols https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/09/overt-and-conspicuous-religious-symbols Fri, 13 Sep 2013 23:28:31 -0400

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]]> Self-Evident Truths and American Independence https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/07/self-evident-truths https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/07/self-evident-truths Thu, 04 Jul 2013 03:12:00 -0400

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]]> Throwing out the Baby with Bentham https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/05/throwing-out-the-baby-with-bentham https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/05/throwing-out-the-baby-with-bentham Wed, 29 May 2013 00:01:00 -0400 Jeremy Bentham Auto-Icon If you want to know what unqualified utilitarianism or hedonism is likely to get you, you can hardly do better than starting with Jeremy Bentham. Since many of his works are either still mere manuscripts or available only in poor editions, however, it has only been with the work of the Bentham Project at the University College London that we have begun to more accurately apprehend his views. One of the project’s more recent efforts has been to rescue from general oblivion the never-published third volume of Bentham’s Not Paul, but Jesus .

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]]> What Counts as Plagiarism? https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/03/what-counts-as-plagiarism https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/03/what-counts-as-plagiarism Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:35:13 -0400

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]]> Boy Scouts and Civil Religion: Harder to Separate than They May Seem https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/boy-scouts-and-civil-religion-harder-to-separate-than-they-may-seem https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/boy-scouts-and-civil-religion-harder-to-separate-than-they-may-seem Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:52:51 -0500

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]]> Reforming Pardons: Time for a New Pardon Attorney? https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/inclemency https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/inclemency Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:02:45 -0500

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]]> Ought and Is https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/ought-and-is https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/ought-and-is Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:46:14 -0500

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]]> Philosophical Folklore and the Reification Fallacy https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/philosophical-folklore-and-the-reification-fallacy https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/philosophical-folklore-and-the-reification-fallacy Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:53:19 -0500

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