First Links — 1.3.14

Conservatives / Neoconservatives
Jonathan Bronitsky, National Affairs

A.I.: A History of Failure
David Auerbach, Nautilus

Fiction and Critique in America
Adam Kirsch, Harvard

Move New Year’s to March
Dominic Selwood, Telegraph

Why Working Class Men Are Falling Behind
Michael Jindra, Family Studies

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