First Things RSS Feed - Matthew W. Maguire https://www.firstthings.com/author/matthew-w-maguire en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:54:29 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/matthew-w-maguire 60 Time’s on Our Side https://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/12/times-on-our-side https://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/12/times-on-our-side Sun, 01 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0500 A century ago, Charles Péguy observed that self-­consciously modern intellectuals “want for everyone to criticize everything. But they don’t want anyone to critique critique.” For Péguy and others, “critique” broadly designates thinking in which reflexive suspicion of truth and truth claims is assumed to be superior to any reasoned assent to those claims, and analyses of becoming and historical flux are increasingly assumed to be more powerful, more valuable, and more honest than thinking affirmatively about being, nature, truth, goodness, God, or any metaphysical term intimating abiding “essences” in the world and beyond it. 

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