First Things RSS Feed - Jerry Z. Muller https://www.firstthings.com/author/jerry-z-muller en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:54:53 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/jerry-z-muller 60 Coming Out Ahead: The Homosexual Moment in the Academy https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/08/coming-out-ahead-the-homosexual-moment-in-the-academy https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/08/coming-out-ahead-the-homosexual-moment-in-the-academy Sun, 01 Aug 1993 00:00:00 -0400 The journal Victorian Studies recently invited submissions for a special issue, entitled “Victorian Sexualities.” “Topics,” stated the call for papers, “may include (but certainly are not limited to) Victorian homosexualities; the erotics of dress and cross-dressing; sexuality and city life, desire and Orientalism; sexuality and victimization; commodification and desire; religious ritual and sexuality; the erotics of spectacle. Essays which emerge from interdisciplinary study are particularly encouraged.” Far from being idiosyncratic, the projected issue of this eminent journal is indicative of a larger moment in American academic culture—the homosexual moment.

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]]> Character and Poverty https://www.firstthings.com/article/1992/06/character-and-poverty https://www.firstthings.com/article/1992/06/character-and-poverty Mon, 01 Jun 1992 00:00:00 -0400 Poverty And Compassion:
The Moral Imagination Of The Late Victorians
by Gertrude Himmelfarb
Knopf, 475 pages, $30

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]]> Minding Our Manners and Morals https://www.firstthings.com/article/1990/04/minding-our-manners-and-morals https://www.firstthings.com/article/1990/04/minding-our-manners-and-morals Sun, 01 Apr 1990 00:00:00 -0500 We begin with the observations of a social critic of cultural conservative leanings—let his name, for the moment, remain a mystery—as he casts his gaze upon the cultural influence of the market.

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