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    Daily Writings from First Things’ Top Writers

Going Benedict, Orthodox Jewish Style

by Bethany Mandel

The Jewish community has a great deal more experience than the Christian community at operating independently of many of society’s boundaries. Continue Reading »

31 Mar 2017 0

Rivers Declared to Be “Persons”

by Wesley J. Smith

Just what does it mean for a river to have “rights”? Continue Reading »

31 Mar 2017 0

Looking for Some Health Care Heroes

by Pete Spiliakos

Market-oriented health care reform needs political entrepreneurs who will mobilize those millions of Americans who don’t have lobbyists but who would benefit from more secure and cheaper health care. Continue Reading »

30 Mar 2017 0

Waugh’s Helena, Father General, and the Reality of Revelation

by George Weigel

Evelyn Waugh’s slim and critically unappreciated novel, Helena, is, at bottom, an act of faith in the reality of revelation. Continue Reading »

29 Mar 2017 0

God’s Image, Man’s Crimes

by James R. Rogers

Mosaic (and Noahic) teachings regarding the death penalty are revelations of God and teach us of God’s grace, mercy, forgiveness, and love. But how? Continue Reading »

29 Mar 2017 0

Death Penalties and the Divine

by James R. Rogers

Does the Bible provide principled grounds for abolition of the death penalty? Continue Reading »

28 Mar 2017 0

Supreme Incoherence: Transgender Ideology and the End of Law

by Jeff Shafer

Does the federal law prohibiting “sex discrimination” forbid us to countenance the category of “sex”—and thus of “sex discrimination”? Can the rule of law survive a yes answer to question one? Continue Reading »

28 Mar 2017 0

Pope Francis’s Achilles Heel

by William Doino Jr.

The pope’s deepest problems are the result of self-inflicted wounds. Continue Reading »

27 Mar 2017 0

​The Monologue Beyond the Dialogue

by Peter J. Leithart

Why are Dostoevsky’s novels so compulsively readable? What makes his characters seem so alive? Continue Reading »

24 Mar 2017 0

Harmony and the Scriptures: Lenten Reflections on Harnoncourt and Bach

by Michael Maria Waldstein

I became aware of the clash between Harnoncourt and Richter, right around the time when my own musical taste became more mature and critical, at age fifteen or sixteen. I was a Richterian; Harnoncourt struck me as harsh and uncouth. Continue Reading »

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