First Links — 10.28.13

Roman Diary
Randy Boyagoda, Financial Times

Don’t Call It a Pullback
Russell Moore, Moore to the Point

William James, Joel Osteen, and the Gray Lady
Leon Wieseltier, New Republic

A Catholic Glimpse of Rav Soloveitchik
Christian M. Rutishauser, Seforim

Hegel: The Protestant Aquinas?
Howard Kainz, Catholic Thing

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