First Things RSS Feed - Robert L. Kehoe III https://www.firstthings.com/author/robert-l-kehoe-iii en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:55:31 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/robert-l-kehoe-iii 60 Overlooked Philosophy https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2015/10/overlooked-philosophy https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2015/10/overlooked-philosophy Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0500 Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Vol. II 
by Peter Adamson
 oxford university press, 428 pages

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]]> Neoliberal Education https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2015/06/neoliberal-education https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2015/06/neoliberal-education Fri, 26 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0400 With the publication of  Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to A Meaningful Life , William Deresiewicz's sober assessment of contemporary higher education was both praised and lampooned by commentators across the spectrum. He recently spoke with First Things about the book's purpose, reception, and the challenges facing students in the throes of a neo-liberal educational system. 

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]]> The Elect and the Accursed https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/08/the-elect-and-the-accursed https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/08/the-elect-and-the-accursed Fri, 23 Aug 2013 00:05:00 -0400 Princeton University at the dawn of the twentieth century is a place marked by chauvinism, racism, anti-Semitism and anti-Catholicism (that “old and much feared enemy,”) as presented in Joyce Carol Oates’ latest novel, The Accursed . Yet its greatest sin is that of presumption. When Princeton patriarch and Presbyterian minister Winslow Slade proclaims, “I am a Slade, and ordained by God; and guilty of no crime; for all that falls from my hand must be God’s own desire, and cannot be deemed sin,” he announces the pride of presumption that went before the fall of the “Crosswicks Curse.”

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