Political Philosophy in Crisis
by Mark BauerleinGlenn Ellmers joins the podcast to discuss the internal contradictions of the contemporary left and how postmodernism undermines political philosophy. Continue Reading »
Philosophy Perfected by Christ
by Robert P. ImbelliFor postmodern thinkers, Christianity’s scandal of particularity proves an insurmountable stumbling block. The eternal God’s unique incarnation in Jesus Christ is absorbed and neutered either in the name of the System or of the Non-System—both equally totalitarian. Continue Reading »
Restoring Notre-Dame
by Samuel GreggThe planned redesign of Notre-Dame de Paris’s interior is an atrocity that will turn the cathedral into little more than a Catholic Disneyland. Continue Reading »
Canada’s Toxic Nationalism
by Nathan PinkoskiCanadian postmodern nationalism makes Americans the enemy, but is friendly to American ideology. Continue Reading »
In a World of “Authentic” “Journeys,” There’s Always First Things
by Carl R. TruemanEvery problem has a genealogy, and helping readers to understand that is a major part of what First Things does. Continue Reading »
The Global Family
by Mark BauerleinJosephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe? by matthew pratt guterl ?harvard, 288 pages, $28.95 It is easy to see why Josephine Baker beckons to the postmodern mind. The famous entertainer of the Jazz Age seems tailor-made for theorists of racial and sexual identity. She was a known historical . . . . Continue Reading »
History’s Crisis, Europe’s Problem, Our Future
by Carl R. Trueman A new book on the writing of history helps explain the breakdown of contemporary political discourse.
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Counterfeit Goods
by Helen AndrewsRepublishing the early work of a novelist who has hit it big is usually a bad idea, but there are exceptions to the rule. It is interesting, for example, to learn that Patricia Highsmith’s second novel was a sympathetically drawn lesbian love story with a happy ending, since the psychological . . . . Continue Reading »
David Foster Wallace to the Rescue
by James K. A. SmithLet’s not speak of suicide. Let’s not encourage the cottage industry bent on reducing David Foster Wallace to a literary Kurt Cobain, a romance of self-demise. This is a significant temptation for any posthumous reading of Wallace, whose writing is populated by suicides and addicts and clients . . . . Continue Reading »
Christians and Postmoderns
by Joseph BottumJoseph Bottum, a young medievalist, made his debut in First Things with an account of faith in a postmodern age. From the February 1994 issue. I We are living at a time near the end of the world. Not that our age is apocalyptic: apocalypse means an uncovering, a revelation, and revelation is what . . . . Continue Reading »
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