First Links — 10.11.13

The Funeral-Industrial Complex
Jessica Mitford, Lapham’s Quarterly

Simplicity Without Iconoclasm
Duncan Stroik, Sacred Architecture

Can We Get Our Heads Around Consciousness?
Michael Hanlon, Aeon

CGI Apocalypse: The Veiling of Nature
Stratford Caldecott, Imaginative Conservative

What Washington Can Learn From the Yale Political Union
Daniel Honan, Big Think

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