First Things RSS Feed - Peter Thiel https://www.firstthings.com/author/peter-thiel en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:50:44 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/peter-thiel 60 Back to the Future https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/03/back-to-the-future https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/03/back-to-the-future Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500 The Decadent Society:
How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
by ross douthat
avid, 272 pages, $27

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]]> Against Edenism https://www.firstthings.com/article/2015/06/against-edenism https://www.firstthings.com/article/2015/06/against-edenism Mon, 01 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0400 The future will look very different from the past. The Garden of Paradise will culminate in the City of God—“the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. . . . The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass. . . . The city does not need the sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light” (Rev. 21:10–24). The river of life will flow down the middle of the great street of the city, and the tree of life will mean that the curse of death is lifted (Rev. 22:1–3). There is continuity with Genesis, but to Eden there will be no returning.

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]]> Spending the Future https://www.firstthings.com/article/2007/11/spending-the-future https://www.firstthings.com/article/2007/11/spending-the-future Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0400 The Legitimacy of ­Philanthropic Foundations: United States and European Perspectives
edited by kenneth prewitt et al.
russell sage foundation, 294 pages, $45

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