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The Left Is Right About the Bible - First Things (opens the original)
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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 approved a required reading list for K–12 schools in the state. The list in its current form prescribes a Bible passage or two in each grade. The excerpts are short and generally episodic—Adam and Eve, the parting of the Red Sea, Daniel and the lion’s den—and they’re mixed with longer works such as Hamlet and Pride and Prejudice in twelfth
Words That Made a Nation: New and Notable Books - First Things (opens the original)
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With Constitution Day taking place this month, a few books on the Founding of our republic are worth notice. Is the U.S. Constitution a democratic instrument? Some scholars argue that it isn’t, and they have their reasons. After all, the Senate grants equal representation to Rhode Island and California; one federal judge can override a popular vote, as happened in Arizona in 2014 when an amendment to the state constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman was declared unconstit
Winners of the Third Annual First Things Poetry Prize - First Things (opens the original)
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We are pleased to announce the winners of the third annual First Things Poetry Prize. Forester McClatchey has won first place for his poem “Lethe.” This year’s external judge, James Matthew Wilson, wrote that the sonnet “about memory, desire, and loss achieves something rare: Not just the meter, but the sentence rhythm gives us the voice and music of a searching ache.” Wilson continued: Anyone can speak in a more or less breathless manner, but only a master of the art can convey to us the ache o
Crisis on the Campus - First Things (opens the original)
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In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Kevin D. Roberts joins in to discuss his recently edited book, Higher Education in America: It’s Worse than You Think. The conversation is embedded below. For your long-term convenience, subscribe via Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Mark Bauerlein is contributing editor at First Things. I was introduced to the culture wars of the 1980s and ’90s after they were already over. As… Cambridge, October 1964.
Old Wisdom, New Distractions: New and Notable Books - First Things (opens the original)
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As the mores of daily life in the twenty-first century change every month or two with the advent of the next digital novelty, lots of books on how to live well and nobly have appeared. Here are a few of them. Thomas More was imprisoned on April 17, 1534, for refusing the Oath of Succession. A year later, on July 6, he was taken to Tower Hill for execution by beheading, a merciful alternative to the original sentence of hanging, drawing, and quartering. During those months, while in prison in the
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