First Things First

With a special price of $22 for the first year (normally $63) I bought a subscription to the mostly monthly (there are two double issues over 12 months) of First Things. The periodical offers articles about, well, first things, the first principles which are the start of reason. 

It's good. It's very good. Of course I had known that, having read the occasional issue over the years. But having a new one each month (mostly); wow. Just wow.

I have not been this intellectually stimulated since my first philosophy classes with dear old Dr. Grassi back at the University of Detroit forty years ago. It can be difficult at times, and I often must reread and reread again certain points to understand what the author of a given piece is saying. But when I get it, wow. 

Aristotle said it best: the greatest happiness comes from contemplation of the greatest things. And the greatest things are encapsulated in First Things. I will gladly re-up at full price next year.