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America’s most influential journal of religion & public life.
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    In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor @mark_bauerlein, Florence Hazrat joins in to discuss her recent book, On the Mark: From Periods to Interrobangs, How Punctuation Remade the World. Listen now at firstthings.com/the-dot-the-da…
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    “The narrative that laws cannot protect both women and their unborn babies is potent and persuasive. Abortion activists in the United States used this argument to great effect in state-level referendums, and it has been relentlessly pushed by the media. A similar strategy has
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    “Rosenzweig is a brilliant outlier in the firmament of modern Jewish philosophy. His dazzling and often obscure insights, whether they cohere with conventional Jewish teaching or strike remarkable individual notes, will continue to engage students and scholars”
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    Judaism Outside History Shalom Carmy on Franz Rosenzweig, Jewish philosophy, and Judaism outside history. firstthings.com/judaism-outsid…
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    Judaism Outside History Shalom Carmy on Franz Rosenzweig, Jewish philosophy, and Judaism outside history.
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    “What Arendt called ‘natality’ gives human beings our distinctive character, our capacity for new beginning. Every newborn alters the entire web of human plurality. All our ‘babies’ enter the world with the same transformative potency and express our uniquely natal power.”
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    All Labor Is Labor Peter J. Leithart Full piece now available to read at firstthings.com/all-labor-is-l…
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    “Unlike idols, Yahweh demolishes ‘former things’ so he can give birth to ‘new things,’ and his labor repeats the first fiat of creation, shining light from darkness (Isa. 42:16). He births new things by his breath and voice, as the Spirit and Word once formed the shapeless
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    “The Talmud survives because it never mistook neatness for truth, or closure for wisdom. So long as Jews continued to dispute, annotate, question, reconcile, resist, and repudiate, the book had not failed in its purpose. It had fulfilled it.”
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    The Book That Would Not Be Closed J. J. Kimche In the latest issue of The Jew from Nowhere, First Things’ newsletter on Jewish thought and culture, J. J. Kimche writes on the Talmud, Maimonides, and rabbinic tradition Read and subscribe for free at jewfromnowhere.com/p/the-book-tha…
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    “The sexual revolution did just that, turning a lifelong human bond connected to procreation into mere recreation. It thereby turned sexual partners into instruments of worth only insofar as they meet one’s sexual needs.”
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    The Dead Marxist Who Understood Sex Better than the UMC Carl R. Trueman Read in full here: firstthings.com/the-dead-marxi…
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    “These are interesting times when a Hegelian Marxist who died in 1973 offers sounder guidance to being human than a prominent Christian denomination in 2026.”
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    “This combination of qualities—a sense of fun, a disinterested commitment to justice, and a powerful supernatural faith—is one that her detractors are completely unable to understand.”
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