Tripp York

Why “First Things” still sucks

I love Stephen Webb. I do. I love that guy so much that I was like, “Steve, you’ve got to contribute to the second volume of The Peaceable Kingdom Series!” He’s a smart guy. He made the book better. But in this article, click right here, he makes assumptions about something called “pacifism” that a […]

Jason Morehead

First Things takes on Takashi Miike's "Thirteen Assassins"

I never thought I’d see the day when First Things — the ecumenical journal founded by Richard John Neuhaus — would review a film by Takashi Miike, one of cinema’s great enfants terrible, but here you go: Ultra-violence, as A Clockwork Orange’s protagonist reminds us, is an art. Takashi Miike agrees, judging from his new remake of Eiichi […]

Tripp York

Ayn Rand . . . She’s Silly (and an Epistemological Disaster, Thank You)

I rarely post articles by other people, but due to my love for David Bentley Hart (coupled with my growing frustration that high school literature teachers cannot find anything better to indoctrinate their students with than the mawkish and fetishized accounts of the self as dictated by Ayn Rand) I’m willing to make an exception. […]