First Links — 10.16.13

Islamofatigue
Brendan O’Neill, Telegraph

Bohemia at the Bottom of Manhattan
Fred Siegel, Weekly Standard

Drowning in the Digital Abyss
J. Hoberman, New York Review of Books Blog

The Dynamic Unity of Conscience
Nathaniel Peters, Library of Law & Liberty

Kraus and Franzen
Eric Banks, Bookforum

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