First Links — 1.16.14

Faces of Death
Hilary Ilkay, Lapham’s Quarterly

What Is It About Middlemarch?
Kathryn Schulz, Vulture

The Varieties of Religious Establishment
Winnifred F. Sullivan and Lori G. Beaman, Political Theology

To Combat Inequality, We Need Solidarity
David Lapp, Family Stuides

Who Is a Jew?
Economist

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