First Things RSS Feed - Elizabeth Kristol https://www.firstthings.com/author/elizabeth-kristol en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:55:34 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/elizabeth-kristol 60 The Marrying Kind https://www.firstthings.com/article/1996/01/001-the-marrying-kind https://www.firstthings.com/article/1996/01/001-the-marrying-kind Mon, 01 Jan 1996 00:00:00 -0500 Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality .
By Andrew Sullivan
Knopf, 209 pages, $22

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]]> Picture Perfect: The Politics of Prenatal Testing https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/04/picture-perfect-the-politics-of-prenatal-testing https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/04/picture-perfect-the-politics-of-prenatal-testing Thu, 01 Apr 1993 00:00:00 -0500 During the past two decades, prenatal screening for fetal defects has become a standard part of nearly every pregnant woman’s medical care. Tests conducted during the first half of pregnancy are designed to detect a wide range of genetic and other disorders, and to give women the option of obtaining abortions if defects are diagnosed. Some people have heralded this development as a breakthrough in the age-old war against disease. Others regard it as more than that: a tool to improve society. Modern birth control methods, the argument goes, brought us quantity control; the addition of prenatal testing offers a system of quality control. For the first time in history, parents are able to customize, albeit in limited ways, the kinds of children they bring into the world.

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]]> Baby Talk https://www.firstthings.com/article/1992/08/baby-talk https://www.firstthings.com/article/1992/08/baby-talk Sat, 01 Aug 1992 00:00:00 -0400 Life Itself:
Abortion in the American Mind
by Roger Rosenblatt
Random House, 194 pages, $20

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]]> History in the Past Perfect https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/04/history-in-the-past-perfect https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/04/history-in-the-past-perfect Mon, 01 Apr 1991 00:00:00 -0500 Is not the past large enough to let you find some place where you may disport yourself without becoming ridiculous?  — Nietzsche

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