First Links — 10.15.13

Breakfast with Lucian
Cressida Connolly, Spectator

Columbus and the Pizza Theory
Robert Royal, Catholic Thing

Confucianism and Democracy
Joel Fetzer & Anthony Gill, Research on Religion

Mobility Is No Answer to Dispersion
Steve Randy Waldman, Interfluidity

The Common Doctor for Common People
Nathaniel Peters, America

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