First Links — 1.6.14

Bloombergism: Accomplishment, Overreach, Ambiguity
Tevi Troy, City Journal

We Need to Talk About TED
Benjamin Bratton, Guardian

A Reburial Fit for a King
Medievalists

Numbers Don’t Lie
Dror Eydar and David P. Goldman, Israel Hayom

In Defense of Kant
M. Anthony Mills, RealClearReligion

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