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** Daily Newsletter: NOVEMBER 11, 2025
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** In today’s newsletter:
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LOUIS BROWN JR: End the Shutdown, Protect Life, and Make Healthcare Affordable ([link removed])

MARK BAUERLEIN: The Jewish Foundations of the West: New and Notable Books ([link removed])

Welcome to the First Things daily newsletter, your guide to the ideas and events shaping our shared moral, cultural, and religious life. Each article we publish continues the conversations First Things has been leading for thirty-five years.

Stay with me as we look at the shutdown and some new and notable books.
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** End the Shutdown, Protect Life, and Make Healthcare Affordable ([link removed])
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** LOUIS BROWN JR.
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Writing in favor of the Senate deal, Louis Brown Jr. argues that “certain members of Congress want to hijack the [Affordable Care Act] to further their goal of socialized medicine. Instead of funding the government and identifying real healthcare reforms to make costs affordable for American families, supporters of the government shutdown want to spend an estimated $350 to $450 billion in taxpayer money to inflate a fundamentally flawed ACA.”
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** The Jewish Foundations of the West ([link removed])
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** MARK BAUERLEIN
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Mark continues his New and Notable Books series with a consideration of a raft of new books exploring the Jewish roots of Western civilization. It’s an interesting and varied list.

For further reading: French pundit, writer, and former presidential candidate Éric Zemmour wrote in June on how the Jewish tradition was necessary for “Saving Christian Europe ([link removed]) .” As he puts it, “More and more Jews and Catholics have realized that they must ally to save France and Europe from Islamization.”
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** Coleridge at Midnight ([link removed])
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** SALLY THOMAS
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From the November issue: As the first winter chill works its way down through America, take a moment this afternoon to sip your coffee and read a wintry poem. You deserve it.

Upcoming Events
* Tomorrow: The Future of Higher Education, a discussion with Mark Bauerlein and Mark Regnerus | Irving, TX. Register here ([link removed]) .
* Tommorow: The December Issue Goes Live.
* January 9, 2026: Second Annual Neuhaus Lecture at the New College of Florida | Sarasota, FL. Details coming soon.

Until next time.


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JACOB AKEY
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Associate Editor
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