First Links — 10.25.13

What Marx Thought
David Pederson, Ethika Politika

“I Quit Academia”: A Growing Subgenre of Essay
Rebecca Schuman,  Slate

The Civic Solution to the Privacy Problem
Evgeny Morozov, MIT Technology Review

Mere Christianity and the Creeds
James Chastek, Just Thomism

Aimless Love
Elizabeth Lund, Christian Science Monitor

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