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Reasons to Be Proud
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (251+ words) The Golden Thread:A History of the Western TraditionVolume I: The Ancient World and Christendomby james hankinsencounter, 1,308 pages, $120Volume II: The Modern and Contemporary Westby allen c. guelzoencounter, 880 pages, $120 Unlike Fo, Guelzo and Hankins cannot afford to express themselves loosely, vaguely, or in symbolic…...
Words That Made a Nation: New and Notable Books
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (78+ words) With Constitution Day taking place this month, a few books on the Founding of our republic are worth notice. Mark Bauerlein is contributing editor at First Things. A new play inspired by the seven-film Paranormal Activity series is now on…...
The Spiritual Appeal of Democratic Socialism
3+ week, 5+ day ago (370+ words) As a proud “Reagan Democrat,” I felt blessed to be in Berlin a few days after the Wall fell in November 1989. I will never forget the sight of the Wall’s death strip or the blight and stench of decrepit East…...
Stories That Tell the U.S. Catholic Story
3+ week, 5+ day ago (180+ words) Fiction can often convey the human texture of a time and place better than scholarly works of history. Herewith, and in honor of the national semiquincentennial, some novels that help tell the Catholic story in these United States through a…...
The Last Grand Master from a Grander Age
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1196+ words) First Things The Last Grand Master from a Grander Age The death of Sir Anthony Kenny on August 3, at the age of ninety-five, broke one of the last direct connections to an unparalleled period in the history of philosophy in…...