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First Links — 12.6.13

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Holiday Shopping and the Class Divide Brandon McGinley, Acculturated Casuistry and Torture Aaron Taylor, Ethika Poltika Bursting the Hirshhorn’s Bubble Bruce Cole, New Criterion Would Someone Just Shut That Pope Up? Patrick J. Deneen, American Conservative How to Make Walking Cool Wayne . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 12.5.13

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Dude, Where’s My Being? Ed Feser In Search of Humanism Among the Primates Phillip Sherman, Marginalia Literature and Bureaucracy Tim Parks, New York Review of Books The Intellectual Civil War within Evangelicalism Tiffany Stanley, Religion & Politics Fear of Priests, Nuns Storming Embassy . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 12.4.13

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Beauty and Truth, Laughter and Memory Peter Makuck,  Hudson Review How the NSA Enables Privacy Jonathan Askonas,  Fare Forward The Boomer Bust P. J. O’Rourke,  Wall Street Journal Here Be Monsters Maria Warner,  New York Review of Books Bad Jeeves Fanfiction Isaac . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 12.3.13

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The Tridentine Masterpiece Donald S. Prudlo, Crisis Non-Celibates Writing about Celibacy James Martin, America Disappearing Acts Terry Eagleton,  London Review of Books A Call to Individuals Robert W. Patterson,  Philadelphia Inquirer No Apologies Alan Jacobs, Books & Culture . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 12.2.13

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Responses to the Pew Report on American Jewry Michael Lerner, et. al., Tikkun Holy High Rollers Randall Stephens, Wilson Quarterly Whatever Happened to Male Friendship? Brandon McGinley, Acculturated A Corporatist Mandate Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner Stripped-Down Gnosticism Brian Lapsa, . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 11.27.13

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Atonement, Theosis & St. Paul Patrick Henry Reardon, Preachers’ Institute Are You Really Calling for a Schism, Tony Jones? Billy Kangas, The Orant Dissident Gardens Hal Parker, American Reader Bones of the Book Robert Moor, n+1 Catacombs on Google Elise Harris, National Catholic Register . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 11.26.13

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The Long, Slow Death of the Senate Robert W. Merry, National Interest The Council and the Question of Salvation Thomas Joseph White, O.P., Catholic World Report Where Equal Is Worse? Kay Hymowitz, Family Studies “The Cave and the Light”: True, But Not True Enough Joel Gehrke, Federalist . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 11.25.13

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Church History, Not Parochial Mark Noll, Books & Culture America’s Best-Paid Fairy Tale Writer John Gray, New Republic ‘Now and Then I Feel It’s Working’ J. Peter Nixon, Commonweal Whither Oliver O’Donovan? James K. A. Smith, Scribd You Know What’s Funny? . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 11.22.13

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Spain’s History Wars Filipe Fernández-Arnesto,  Times Literary Supplement Kennedy’s Ambiguities Kenneth L. Woodward,  Tablet Aztec Political Thought Xavier Marquez,  Abandoned Footnotes Lewis the Imaginative Man Laura C. Mallonee,  Poetry Foundation Hymns for . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 11.21.13

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Gettysburg at 150: Some Essays Jeffrey Polet, Front Porch Republic Orthodox Art as Fine Art Andrew Gould, Orthodox Arts Journal To Fight Assimilation, Stop Dumbing Down Judaism Evelyn Gordon, Commentary The Books We Preach Br. Henry Stephan, O.P., Dominicana No One Sees God Henry Becklo, Strange . . . . Continue Reading »