First Things RSS Feed - Tim Perry https://www.firstthings.com/author/tim-perry en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:55:45 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/tim-perry 60 Sin & Cinema https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2008/09/sin-cinema https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2008/09/sin-cinema Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400 People are basically good, right? It’s a truism drilled into us by any number of self-help books, magazines, talk-show hosts, and pop therapy. When, from time to time, people do terrible things to each other or themselves, we are assured that just the right combination of education, medication, and therapy could correct the ignorance, illness, or faulty social conditioning that led to the act. But do we really believe that to be true? Or do we recognize there is something more sinister at work in human nature?

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