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Trump, Biden, and Religion in American Politics | Carl R. Trueman

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In future, could American politicians please keep religion out of their platforms and propaganda?

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First Things In future, could American politicians please keep religion out of their platforms and propaganda? 86d

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Amy Coney Barrett and Originalism | Marc O. DeGirolami

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What has Judge Barrett written about the relationship between originalism and stare decisis?

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First Things Some have made wildly unsupported claims that Judge Barrett has “argued for a fearless originalism.” 96d

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What Hath Gorsuch Wrought? | Hadley Arkes

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A closer look at Gorsuch’s own words may reveal a judge deceiving himself along with everyone else.

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First Things A closer look at Gorsuch’s own words may reveal a judge deceiving himself along with everyone else. 96d

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The Crimes of Christopher Columbus | Dinesh D'Souza

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Multiculturalism is presented by its advocates in the schools and universities as a benign . . . .

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First Things The debate over Columbus is a debate over whether Western civilization was a good idea. From the archives 98d

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Live Not by Lies | Mark Bauerlein

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Rod Dreher joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents.

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First Things ”If people have in their minds that it’s not totalitarianism unless you have the KGB hauling people off to the gulag, they’re going to completely miss what is happening.” —Rod Dreher 101d

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Christian Armenia Under Attack | Mark Movsesian

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Last week, Azerbaijan launched a military offensive against Karabakh, reigniting its long-simmering war with Armenia.

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First Things Christian Armenia finds itself fighting for its existence, more or less on its own, against long odds. 104d

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The Anti-Romantic | Matthew Schmitz

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What Éric Rohmer said of one of his characters could be said of him as well: He was committed to . . . .

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First Things Éric Rohmer was committed to “redoing all of Rousseau in reverse.” From the print edition 113d

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What I Learned From Amy Coney Barrett | Laura Wolk

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The warmth and compassion that Judge Barrett has shown me on so many occasions flow from the same wellspring of faith for which she is now so excoriated.

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First Things The compassion that Judge Barrett has shown me flows from the same wellspring of faith for which she is now so excoriated. 115d

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Red Terror | Gabriel Rossman

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As American society was roiled this summer by civil unrest, purges, and struggle sessions, I read . . . .

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First Things Not so long ago, people hoped that communist China would gradually adopt the values of the democratic West. The opposite may be closer to the case. 122d

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Against Racialism | Darel E. Paul

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Having fallen away from both Christianity and American civil religion, liberals in the United States . . . .

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First Things Wokeness is now part of “whiteness,” as central an element of white culture, white privilege, and white supremacy as anything identified by formal wokeademics, wokeaucrats, and wokeultants. 122d

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First Things Antiracists are racialists. They believe that race is the prime matter of human society. From the print edition 110d

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Suicide of the Liberals | Gary Saul Morson

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Between 1900 and 1917, waves of unprecedented terror struck Russia. Several parties professing . . . .

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First Things A quote attributed to Lenin—“When we are ready to kill the capitalists, they will sell us the rope”—would have been more accurately rendered as: “They will buy us the rope and hire us to use it on them.” 123d

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The Books Behind the Rage | Sohrab Ahmari

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Today's riots are the effect of four years of irresponsible exercises in middle-brow hysteria about American democracy giving way to fascism.

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First Things Today’s riots are the effect of middle-brow hysteria about American democracy giving way to fascism. 138d

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First Things Claiming to have uncovered the fascist impulse behind today’s populist ferment ended up authorizing just such an approach. 138d

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First Things The idea that American democracy is giving way to fascism has consequences. 137d

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Rule of Law Imperiled | R. R. Reno

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Police and other legitimate representatives of the state need to regain control of the streets.

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First Things The strategy of containment rather than confrontation has its roots in university culture. 143d

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AI Dystopia by Mark Bauerlein | First Things Media

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Conversations with Mark Bauerlein

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First Things Cancel culture is a modern version of the KKK or lynch mobs. 159d

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The Jewish Case Against Abortion | Various

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The Jewish Pro-Life Foundation affirms the responsibility of every Jew to “choose life, so that you and your children may live” (Deuteronomy 30:19).

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First Things The Jewish Pro-Life Foundation is impelled to speak the truth on abortion. 165d

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First Things Whatever differences there are between Jewish and Christian morality, the issue of abortion is not one of them. 165d

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Brave New World Revisited | Francis X. Maier

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If today’s street violence and political extremism serve any good purpose, it’s this: They remind us that humans have a chronic appetite for destruction.

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First Things The arc of absolute power bends toward pain, not paradise. 171d

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Mrs. America’s Mistakes | Helen Andrews

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Mrs. America imagines that it can safely romanticize Schlafly’s pastel-colored suburban world because no woman today could possibly want to go back to it.

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First Things The heroic figure of Phyllis Schlafly will break free from Dahvi Waller’s kitschy depiction of her in “Mrs. America.” 179d

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Protest of the Elites | Mark Bauerlein

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Sumantra Maitra explains why elites are leading the current wave of iconoclastic protests in the U.S. and U.K.

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First Things New podcast: Sumantra Maitra explains why elites are leading the current wave of iconoclastic protests in the U.S. and U.K. 180d

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Conservative Jurisprudence Without Truth | Hadley Arkes

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Bostock struck at the very root of the law in denying the necessary way in which human beings by nature must be constituted.

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First Things The American Constitution was surely never meant to house the denial of that nature that distinguishes mothers from fathers, brothers from sisters. 181d

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A Godless Great Awakening | Joshua Mitchell

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Identity politics provides a cheap shortcut to redemption, a fig leaf that hides man from his own darkened heart.

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First Things Identity politics addresses the curse of death not by looking for divine redemption, but by attempting to construct an Edenic world without death. 197d