First Things RSS Feed - Daniel Johnson https://www.firstthings.com/author/daniel-johnson en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:52:04 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/daniel-johnson 60 Democracy’s Revenge https://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/12/democracys-revenge https://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/12/democracys-revenge Sun, 01 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0500 In the very first sentence of his new book, John Lukacs declares, “There is no serious history of the twentieth century that I know of,” but whatever the shortcomings of other historians of the twentieth century, he has not filled the gap he claims exists. ­Lukacs, prolific historian though he is, is a political animal, exclusively so. A Short History of the Twentieth Century omits or skirts over entire fields of research: cultural and intellectual history, economic and social history—everything, in fact, except politics. I would not recommend this book to anyone who knew nothing about the subject, or who was too young to have lived through any of it: It is too partial, too selective, too partisan to be a primer. 

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]]> American Apocalypse https://www.firstthings.com/article/2005/10/american-apocalypse https://www.firstthings.com/article/2005/10/american-apocalypse Sat, 01 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0400 An Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion and American Empire
By Michael Northcott
I.B. Tauris. 220 pp. $35.

God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It
By Jim Wallis
HarperSanFranciso. 416 pp. $24.95

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