First Things RSS Feed - Lawrence M. Mead https://www.firstthings.com/author/lawrence-m-mead en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:54:14 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/lawrence-m-mead 60 The Check Is in the Mail https://www.firstthings.com/article/2006/10/the-check-is-in-the-mail https://www.firstthings.com/article/2006/10/the-check-is-in-the-mail Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0400 In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State
by Charles Murray.
AEI Press, 140 pages, $20.

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]]> Always Among Us https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/12/always-among-us https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/12/always-among-us Sun, 01 Dec 1991 00:00:00 -0500 The Urban Underclass
Edited by Christopher Jencks and Paul E. Peterson
Brookings Institution Publications, 490 pages, $34.95

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]]> Race and Urban Politics https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/02/race-and-urban-politics https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/02/race-and-urban-politics Fri, 01 Feb 1991 00:00:00 -0500 The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York
by jim sleeper
 w. w. norton, 345 pages, $21.95

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]]> Poverty and Morality https://www.firstthings.com/article/1990/08/poverty-and-morality https://www.firstthings.com/article/1990/08/poverty-and-morality Wed, 01 Aug 1990 00:00:00 -0400 The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare
by michael b. katz
pantheon books, 293 pages, $22.95 

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