From First Things <[email protected]>
Subject Readers’ Choice
Date December 16, 2025 2:00 PM
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** Readers’ Choice: Last Week’s Most Read Articles
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** Trump’s NSS Is a Reality Check ([link removed])
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** R. R. RENO
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The National Security Statement does not address domestic policy. But the blunt statements about Europe’s civilizational malaise and misguided immigration policies apply to the United States as well.
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** The Problem with the Evangelical Elite ([link removed])
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** AARON M. RENN
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From the January issue: Evangelicals are roughly one-quarter of the American population. When a group so large fails to contribute its share of leaders, we should expect a leadership deficiency in society.
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** Our Lady of This Particular Place ([link removed])
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** RAYMOND J. DE SOUZA
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Marian devotion is particular, associating Mary’s presence with various places, conditions, or states of life. Jesus works on the largest imaginable scale; Mary works beside me.
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** How Globalization Led to Tribalism ([link removed])
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** NATHAN PINKOSKI
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When we wage war in the global village, when we try to use our technology to impose our values upon others, we take on the features of our enemy.
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** Navigating the Post-Conciliar Church ([link removed])
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** HANS FEICHTINGER
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Questions about Vatican II and about liturgical changes in its wake are first and foremost theological questions, not pastoral or liturgical. Because they relate to continuity and tradition, they are questions about revelation, and therefore God.
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