This imperative is the focus of the 2023 FIRST THINGS Fall Appeal, which aims to raise $200,000 from five hundred readers like you by October 31.
 

Reader,  you don’t need me to tell you that wokeness has achieved hegemony in the core institutions of public life. Those of us who are appalled at this hostile takeover need to create counter-institutions, even as we fight to retake those we have lost.
 
If you read FIRST THINGS, you know that many such institutions already exist, even as more are cropping up around the country. It is a privilege to highlight numerous success stories like the Chesterton Academies, Wyoming Catholic College, and the Classical Learning Test.
 
You and I both know that true and lasting renewal will require institutions like these to work together. And here’s the good news: You can make this collaboration possible.
 
FIRST THINGS is where the current and future leaders of these counter-institutions come to chart the way forward for religious believers like you and me.
 
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