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Matthew Cantirino

How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor? by james k. a. smith? eerdmans, 160 pages, $16 In the seven years since its release, Charles Taylorโ€™s A Secular Age...

First Links โ€” 8.8.14

Matthew Cantirino

Mr. Trumanโ€™s DegreeBrandon, Siris Flimsiest Exposรฉ of the YearPeter Steinfels, Commonweal How Husserl Changed Catholic Attitudes on JudaismArtur Rosman, Cosmos the in Lost Smerdyakov and PutinCostica Bradatan, Los Angeles...

First Links โ€” 8.7.14

Matthew Cantirino

Rollinโ€™ Coal and the Empire of DesireR. J. Snell, Front Porch Republic Fleeing the Coasts for โ€œClevelandโ€Jim Russell, Pacific Standard You Canโ€™t Have a Culture of Life If You...

First Links โ€” 8.6.14

Matthew Cantirino

The Way, Itโ€™s True, Is a LifeNick Maione, Fare Forward Inequality and the MiddlebrowA. O. Scott, New York Times The Bedouin of St. KatherineHilary Gilbert, Fortnightly Review Seeing Israel...

First Links โ€” 8.5.14

Matthew Cantirino

Born to TroubleHannah K. Grieser, Books & Culture Folks, Itโ€™s TortureLucy Ferriss, Lingua Franca Adderall and VirtueJonathan Liedl, Ethika Politika Plans for a More Restrained Sign of PeaceCatholic News Agency...

First Links โ€” 8.4.14

Matthew Cantirino

The Road to the Holy Mountain Martin Puchner, Public Books Is This Sports Column Elite? Jason Gay, Wall Street Journal What Weโ€™re Really Saying Barton Gingerich, Juicy Ecumenism Welfare...

First Links โ€” 8.1.14

Matthew Cantirino

Does Universalism Create a World Without Consequences? Leah Libresco, Unequally Yoked Restoring Religious Liberty, Reviving Political Liberty James Stoner, Library of Law & Liberty What Happened to You, Richard Dawkins?...

First Links โ€” 7.31.14

Matthew Cantirino

My Church Loyalties, Or: Why I Donโ€™t ConvertD. Stephen Long, Christian Century Can the Caliphate Last?Charlie Cooper, Daily Beast The Art and Ethics of AttentionThomas Pfau, Hedgehog Review There...

First Links โ€” 7.30.14

Matthew Cantirino

Conscience and the Law: A Bumpy RideHadley Arkes, Catholic Thing More Engaging Copy for the Ten CommandmentsDavid Tate, McSweeneyโ€™s Last Meal at Whole FoodsSaรฏd Sayrafiezadeh, New Yorker I Am...

First Links โ€” 7.29.14

Matthew Cantirino

From Super to Nuts James Bowman, Arma Virumque Is Competent Authoritarianism Too Much to Ask For? John Michael McGrath, Hazlitt Cohabitation: Moving In and Moving On Scott Stanley, Family...

First Links โ€” 7.28.14

Matthew Cantirino

Middle Earth Has Ruined Our Imagination Josephine Livingstone, Prospect On N. T. Wrightโ€™s 1658-page Book Simon Gathercole, Reformation21 On the Book About My Father L. Brent Bozell, American Spectator...

First Links โ€” 7.25.14

Matthew Cantirino

A โ€œTaxโ€ in Iraq Terry Mattingly, GetReligion Books Are Alive Ned Resnikoff, The Baffler Welcome to New Urbs Jonathan Coppage, The American Conservative End of the Empire Clement Dickie, O.P.,...

First Links โ€” 7.24.14

Matthew Cantirino

Whereโ€™s God?Edward Feser George Whitefield at 300Various, Credo Are the Authoritarians Winning? Michael Ignatieff, New York Review of Books Fiction, Religion, and Reality Jesse Baron & Christopher Beha, Harperโ€™s Why...

First Links โ€” 7.23.14

Matthew Cantirino

Righteous Minds and Religious Liberty David Zahl, Mockingbird Donโ€™t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League William Deresiewicz, New Republic Our Duty to Iraqโ€™s Christians Michael Brendan Dougherty, The...

First Links โ€” 7.22.14

Matthew Cantirino

Saving Normal in a World Gone Mad Helene Guldberg, Spiked On โ€œCourageโ€ in the Christian Academy James K. A. Smith, Fors Clavigera Creating Intentional Community: A PanelWill Seath & Chris...