Texas Public School Students Will Be Required to Read the Bible,” warned a headline in the New York Times in June. The Texas State Board of Education had just... The…
First Things ↗Cambridge, October 1964. A new undergraduate named Mary Hoffman is sitting in the corner at a party, feeling sorry for herself. She doesn’t know anybody, the friends she arrived... The…
First Things ↗The Trump family’s exploitation of every opportunity to enrich themselves demoralizes me, as I’m sure it does many readers. Don Jr. and Eric Trump are the Uday and Qusay... The…
First Things ↗We welcome letters to the editor. Letters appear two issues after the article to which they are responding. Letters under three hundred words are preferred, and they may be... The…
First Things ↗I am a native New Yorker. So, even though I live in DC, New York (Brooklyn in particular) still has my heart. My sports allegiances are directly tied to this…
Washington Institute ↗What does it mean to “taste and see that the Lord is good?” It may be reflected in dying like my grandmother, without a bitter taste in the mouth.
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Homeschooling matters because by its very nature—in all its non-standardized, messy, unwieldy glory—it is a movement against the professionalization, standardization, and replacement of the human being.
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Born at the end of the Millennial generation, Charlie Kirk rose to prominence in tandem with Donald Trump. Kirk seemed tailored for the Trump era. His tall frame projected... The…
First Things ↗Germany finds itself in a strange situation. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) is steadily growing in popularity, as shown by its September 6 victory in Sachsen-Anhalt, where it came... The…
First Things ↗There is a long-running strain of New Testament criticism, associated most famously with Albert Schweitzer, that places great weight on the theme of deferred apocalyptic expectation. On this paradigm... The…
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