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First Links — 5.2.13

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Recasting Conservative Economics James C. Capretta, AEI Jurassic Generation Ari N. Schulman, New Atlantis Positively Medieval Stephen Cooper, History Today Against Ethnic Catholicism Dwight Longenecker, Patheos The Devil in Pope Francis’ Teaching Gerry Blaszczak, New Advent . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 5.1.13

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Tawdry Links Matt Emerson,  Ignatian Educator Multigenerational Poverty, Crime Control, and Civil Society Reihan Salam,  The Agenda Celebrating Kierkegaard’s Bicentennial Daphne Hampson, Oxford University Press Blog Knights of Columbus Return to Gonzaga Jody Lawrence-Turner, . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 4.30.13

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The Debt We Shouldn’t Pay Robert Kuttner, New York Review of Books Is the Way We Divorce About to Change? Beverly Willett and Chris Gersten, Huffington Post America as Mission Territory Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight To Malick’s Wonder Brett McCracken, Mere Orthodoxy Online Review . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 4.29.13

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Infinite Progress Jathan Sadowski, L. A. Review of Books The Post-Welfare State Family Mary Eberstadt, Weekly Standard The Eighty-Year Reform of the Curia Sandro Magister, Aleteia The Mixed Blessings of Interfaith Marriage Naomi Schaefer Riley & Neal Conan, NPR A Father’s Love Tullian . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 4.26.13

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The Spiritual Autobiography of Christian Wiman Jay Parini, Chronicle of Higher Education C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Fame Paul Johnson, Spectator Untangling the Tsarnaev’s Muslim Ties Carefully Mollie Hemingway, GetReligion The Children of China Jiayang Fan, New Yorker Israel’s Escalating . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 4.25.13

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The Pythagorean Temptation James Matthew Wilson, Front Porch Republic Sheer Hart Attack: Morality, Rationality, and Theology Edward Feser, Public Discourse Is Abundance the Solution? The Case for Less Tim Wu, New Republic Maurice Williamson’s Nihilistic Beat Andre van Heerden, NZ Catholic . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 4.24.13

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The State Funerals of Christendom Mark Tooley, American Spectator Church as New Mode of Consciousness Just Thomism Prodigals and Preachers Eve Tushnet, Acculturated Jane Austen, Game Theorist Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times Doctors Advance John Paul II Sainthood Andrea Tornielli, Vatican . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 4.23.13

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The Anecdotal Way to Santiago de Compostela David L. Simon, Medievalists.net Fakes and Ale Norma Clarke, Times Literary Supplement The Evidentialist Terrell Clemmons, Salvo New Schoolers, Neo-Calvinists, and Fundamentalists D. G. Hart, Old Life Can a Religious Believer Be a Serious Journalist? . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 4.22.13

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How to See Like a State Brian Dijkema, Comment Impassible and Impassioned Jeremy Kimble, Gospel Coalition The Roots of Our Friendship Crisis Jake Meador, Fare Forward Seventy Years After the Warsaw Ghetto Adam Garfinkle, American Interest Asking Why on Marathon Day Angela Franks, Boston Pilot . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 4.19.13

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Welcoming Muslims in Ireland Megan O’Neil, Atlantic To Mary Neylan (April 18, 1940) C. S. Lewis, American Reader The Limits of Madison’s “Memorial and Remonstrance” Richard Reinsch, Library of Law & Liberty Why Did Some German Protestants Support Hitler? Matthew . . . . Continue Reading »