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First Things is inter-religious, inter-denominational and ecumenical, especially Christian and Jewish. It articulates Christian ecumenism, Christian–Jewish dialogue , erudite social and political conservatism and a critique of contemporary society.
On the Natural History of Destruction is first and foremost a book about Germany. And it is a chilling one. Sebald’s lengthy opening chapter uses a detached, documentary style to recount a representative handful of gruesome stories from the last years of the war.
He wrote his first philosophical essay, “On the Origin of Evil,” at the age of twelve. By thirteen, he had written his first autobiography. He would go on to write eight more over the next ten years, each of them concluding that, in Safranski’s words, “his life was exemplary.”
Dr. Damon Linker is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Penn. He joined the department in the Fall of 2023 after having taught in the Critical Writing Program on several occasions since 2007.
An assault is, first and foremost, an affront to one’s sense of self-worth. The ancient philosophers thus determined that, although anger clearly needs to be moderated by reason, it is not unambiguously destructive.
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A former editor of the principal ‘theocon’ journal First Things, now an apostate, warns that the religious zealotry of his one-time colleagues is a danger to American democracy. [Linker] takes us through the theocons’s involvement in (and reaction to) some current social issues and events -- the Terri Schiavo case, stem-cell research, the ...
