First Links — 1.13.14

Innocence That Grows
John Milbank, ABC Religion & Ethics

Checkpoints in Chiapas
Br. Dominic Mary Verner, O.P., Dominicana

Because Empathy?
John McWhorter, New Republic

Geniuses, Dunces, and Hacks
Matt Siedel, The Millions

Jane Austen to Cassandra Austen: January 9, 1796
American Reader

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