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Roger Scruton's Eternal Youth - First Things (opens the original)
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In this episode, First Things senior editor Dan Hitchens joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his recent essay, “The Making of Roger Scruton,” from the October 2026 issue of the magazine. The conversation is embedded below. For your long-term convenience, subscribe via Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Dan Hitchens is senior editor at First Things. In a life of reading, there are special times of wonder and delight. Books come into your… Is baptism an irreversible spiritual and ontologic
How Britain Escaped Assisted Suicide - First Things (opens the original)
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In June 2025 Janet Daby, the Member of Parliament for Lewisham East, started having nightmares: terrible images of death and dying that disturbed her sleep and haunted her conscience. She didn’t need a psychotherapist to interpret them. That month she had joined 313 other MPs in voting through an assisted suicide bill. She was beginning to think she might have made the wrong choice, and the 291 MPs on the other side might have made the right one. There was one conversation that added to Daby’s d
The Making of Roger Scruton - First Things (opens the original)
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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 with have disappeared, and she is just about to go home when a third-year student comes over to introduce himself. He has flame-red hair and craggy features that put her in mind of the nouvelle vague heartthrob Jean-Paul Belmondo. And as they talk, it dawns on her that she’s never met anybody like this in her life. He kn
The Douthat Decade - First Things (opens the original)
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For conservative Christian nerds it is a hammer blow. Imagine the grief and shock if Taylor Swift were to announce that she was giving up songwriting to focus on her acting career, and you will have some faint notion of the impact of Ross Douthat’s departure from the New York Times in order to become a TV correspondent at the new Bari Weiss–run 60 Minutes. From around 2015, when politics and culture felt the first tremors of a series of history-restarting earthquakes, the Douthat column has been
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