I hope you like our new website. Our content remains first-rate. Now, the internet delivers timely and timeless writing to you in a more delightful format. When designing the look and feel of the website, our ambition was simple. We sought to give online readers the same refined elegance that print subscribers receive when their copies of FIRST THINGS arrive in their mailboxes.
Count me among those who regard the digital age with ambivalence. Sure, it’s great to have so much at my fingertips, ready to read with just a few taps on my keyboard. But it has made publication more complicated.
In the old days, readers sent in checks, and we sent out magazines. That still happens, but . . .
