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- We Are Repaganising https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/10/we-are-repaganizing 6 comments
- Shakespeare’s First Folio https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2023/10/shakespeares-first-folio-turns-400 9 comments
- The Myth of Soulless Women (1997) https://www.firstthings.com/article/1997/04/the-myth-of-soulless-women 8 comments
- The Joys of the Harpsichord https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2021/11/the-joys-of-the-harpsichord 4 comments
- Publishers’ Bind https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/11/publishers-bind 2 comments
- No writer understood loneliness better than Chekhov https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/11/poet-of-loneliness 33 comments
- Card-Carrying Precadavers https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/06/card-carrying-precadavers 17 comments
- Clarify Me, Please, God of the Galaxies https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/05/clarify-me-please-god-of-the-galaxies 5 comments
- Millennials Strike Back: An Esoteric Reading of the Last Jedi https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2018/01/millennials-strike-back-an-esoteric-reading-of-the-last-jedi 73 comments
- Bitter Pill https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/05/bitter-pill 5 comments
- Ban the Laptops, Yes https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2017/09/ban-the-laptops-yes 6 comments
- The Genius of Winding Paths https://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/10/the-genius-of-winding-paths 5 comments
- A Perfect Game by David Bentley Hart. Super dense philosophical prose on the beauty of baseball https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/08/a-perfect-game 3 comments baseball
- A Perfect Game - Essay on the Beauty of Baseball https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/08/a-perfect-game 3 comments baseball
- Europe and its Discontents - Pope Benedict XVI https://www.firstthings.com/article/2006/01/europe-and-its-discontents 9 comments europe
- "A Perfect Game" | The Metaphysical Meaning of Baseball https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/08/a-perfect-game?fbclid=iwar2o6dtwe8cprjrdz8jzr1ynjhwi1vo4nswlg79jtnvpfyade3wy5usr3fq 11 comments baseball
- 'Poland's Christian Migrants' https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2018/07/polands-christian-migrants 75 comments europe
- Patrick Deneen: Western society is based on a noble lie like Plato's Republic https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/04/the-ignoble-lie 16 comments philosophy
- "Calling Torture by its Name", on the immorality of torture independent of its effectiveness https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2017/01/calling-torture-by-its-name 519 comments philosophy
- I am looking for English subtitles of a documentary called "Tak zhit nelzya" (1990), depicting realistic (apparently) life in USSR and New York at the time. Link to video in Russian is inside. The English name is called "You Can't Live Like That". https://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/10/the-cold-war-is-over 3 comments russia
- Trump's Revolt Against Vows:"His consistent approach...is to violate whatever norm is in place, as a demonstration of his own power." https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2016/09/trumps-revolt-against-vows 4 comments politics
- Does French Culture Have a Future? http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2016/08/does-french-culture-have-a-future 5 comments europe
- God, gods, and fairies -- why this author thinks God is categorically different from other hypothetical entities, he is either a necessity or you need to replace him with a complete other worldview -- what do you think? http://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/06/god-gods-and-fairies 3 comments philosophy
- Want to read Brothers Karamazov, and most recommend P&V translation, but this article has me worried. https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/the-pevearvolokhonsky-hype-machine-and-how-it-could-have-been-stopped-or-at-least-slowed-down 4 comments books
- During Victor Hugo’s funeral, most of the brothels in Paris closed down because all the prostitutes were in mourning for their best client. http://www.firstthings.com/article/2007/08/003-the-sacred-heart-of-victor-hugo 13 comments books
- Tobacco and the Tripartite Soul http://www.firstthings.com/article/1997/04/003-tobacco-and-the-soul 16 comments philosophy
- Roland on Free Will http://www.firstthings.com/article/2015/02/roland-on-free-will 29 comments philosophy
- More Rawlsian thoughts on liberal eugenics http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/06/more-rawlsian-thoughts-on-liberal-eugenics/ 15 comments philosophy
- Reza Aslan misrepresents his scholarly credentials http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/07/29/scholarly-misrepresentation/ 6 comments books
- The GOP’s White Voter Problem: "Republican problems among working-class whites and nonwhites of all classes were partly rooted in the perception that the GOP is the party of the wealthy" http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2013/05/the-goprsquos-white-voter-problem 14 comments politics
- Slate Writer Argues for Polygamy http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/04/15/slate-writer-argues-for-polygamy/ 9 comments politics
- Mitt Romney is a High Priest In The Order Of Melchizedek - would it be wrong for the Dems to make an issue of this? http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2012/03/mormons-and-christianity-asking-the-right-questions 3 comments politics
- The Myth of Galileo: A Story With a (Mostly) Valuable Lesson for Today. http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2011/09/08/the-myth-of-galileo-a-story-with-a-mostly-valuable-lesson-for-today/ 3 comments reddit.com
- "I think I am very close to concluding that this whole 'New Atheism' movement is only a passing fad" http://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/04/believe-it-or-not 37 comments philosophy
- Shakespeare Didn't Sound Like Laurence Olivier - a scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream in Original Pronunciation http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/10/25/shakespeare-didnt-sound-like-laurence-olivier/ 24 comments linguistics
- Adult Stem Cell Human Trial Begins to Treat Spinal Cord Injury http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2010/08/04/adult-stem-cell-human-trial-begins-to-treat-spinal-cord-injury/ 18 comments science
- Glenn Beck Tells Catholics to Leave the Church Over "Social Justice" http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/03/08/glenn-beck-thinks-catholics-should-leave-their-church/ 6 comments politics
- Headless, faceless women. No, not also rans for 2009's best authors, but the figures gracing the covers of many novels. http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2009/11/18/eyes-wide-cut/ 32 comments books
- A reasoned, calm explanation of health care rationing by an oncologist. It is long but worth the read. http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2009/08/confessions-of-a-health-care-rationer 3 comments reddit.com
- Stephen King invented the modern horror novel, doing for the form what Agatha Christie did for the murder mystery: taking a genre that was defined by the short story and pulling it off at novel length—not once or twice, a Dracula here and a Frankenstein there, but over and over again. http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=5416 2 comments reddit.com