From First Things <[email protected]>
Subject Readers’ Choice
Date December 9, 2025 1:14 AM
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** Readers’ Choice: Last Week’s Most Read Articles
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** What Does The Practice of the Presence of God Reveal About Leo? ([link removed])
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** EPHRAIM RADNER
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Brother Lawrence’s basic attitude was that friends die, you get new ones; just don’t attach yourselves too much to them. The liturgy is fine, but no better than daily communion with God. How might any of this touch upon the life of a pope?
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** Nick Fuentes and Richard Hanania’s Paganism ([link removed])
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** BETHEL MCGREW
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Hanania is no less of a Nazi sympathizer than Fuentes; he is simply reviving more socially acceptable elements of the Nazi project. Hanania maintains that the weak should die when they overburden the strong.
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** Undercover in Canada’s Lawless Abortion Industry ([link removed])
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** JONATHON VAN MAREN
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For years, abortion activists and politicians have pushed the falsehood that late-term abortions are only perpetrated in Canada in cases of severe health risks.
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** The Return of Blasphemy Laws? ([link removed])
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** CARL R. TRUEMAN
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Karl Marx on the effects of industrial capitalism that “all that is holy is profaned.” The same applies to the progressive ideologies of the English ruling class today.
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** The Death of Daniel Kahneman ([link removed])
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** J. MARK MUTZ
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From the December issue: Kahneman made clear that he did not intend his death as a statement, and yet it raises questions. When an expert on judgment and decision-making decides to take his own life, we can’t help asking whether his final act confirmed his reputation or undermined it.
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