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Dear
Reader,
It’s a paradox worthy of reflection: Limits are a necessary precondition for true freedom.
This idea is not very fashionable right now. The progressive imagination is animated by the cri de coeur of dismantling of all limits.
First Things was founded on the opposite conviction. As our founding editorial declares, “religion best serves public life by relativizing the importance of public life, especially of public life understood as politics.”
This points to a kindred paradox: training our gaze to the heavens actually makes us better citizens here on earth. We believe that the religious voices must be heard, especially at a cultural moment when many infuse public life with eschatological meaning.
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