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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 Taylor’s A Secular Age...
First Links — 8.8.14
Mr. Truman’s DegreeBrandon, Siris Flimsiest Exposé 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 — 8.7.14
Rollin’ Coal and the Empire of DesireR. J. Snell, Front Porch Republic Fleeing the Coasts for “Cleveland”Jim Russell, Pacific Standard You Can’t Have a Culture of Life If You...
First Links — 8.6.14
The Way, It’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 — 8.5.14
Born to TroubleHannah K. Grieser, Books & Culture Folks, It’s TortureLucy Ferriss, Lingua Franca Adderall and VirtueJonathan Liedl, Ethika Politika Plans for a More Restrained Sign of PeaceCatholic News Agency...
First Links — 8.4.14
The Road to the Holy Mountain Martin Puchner, Public Books Is This Sports Column Elite? Jason Gay, Wall Street Journal What We’re Really Saying Barton Gingerich, Juicy Ecumenism Welfare...
First Links — 8.1.14
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 — 7.31.14
My Church Loyalties, Or: Why I Don’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 — 7.30.14
Conscience and the Law: A Bumpy RideHadley Arkes, Catholic Thing More Engaging Copy for the Ten CommandmentsDavid Tate, McSweeney’s Last Meal at Whole FoodsSaïd Sayrafiezadeh, New Yorker I Am...
First Links — 7.29.14
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 — 7.28.14
Middle Earth Has Ruined Our Imagination Josephine Livingstone, Prospect On N. T. Wright’s 1658-page Book Simon Gathercole, Reformation21 On the Book About My Father L. Brent Bozell, American Spectator...
First Links — 7.25.14
A “Tax” 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 — 7.24.14
Where’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, Harper’s Why...
First Links — 7.23.14
Righteous Minds and Religious Liberty David Zahl, Mockingbird Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League William Deresiewicz, New Republic Our Duty to Iraq’s Christians Michael Brendan Dougherty, The...
First Links — 7.22.14
Saving Normal in a World Gone Mad Helene Guldberg, Spiked On “Courage” in the Christian Academy James K. A. Smith, Fors Clavigera Creating Intentional Community: A PanelWill Seath & Chris...