“While I wish to be adorned with every virtue, yet there is nothing which I can esteem more highly than the being and appearing grateful. For this one virtue is not only the greatest, but is also the parent of all the other virtues.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Happy Thanksgiving from FIRST THINGS!
Just as this holiday’s famous meal features delectable dishes of various kinds, so too we offer you different sorts of enriching Thanksgiving media from the archives.
In a special holiday episode, editor R. R. Reno is joined by contributing editor Mark Bauerlein and Alexander Riley for a discussion of Thanksgiving, civil religion, and the American founding.
The American story is an epic of ever-expanding inclusion: a country of flawed human beings that strives to give real effect to the assertion that all human beings are created equal.
