First Links — 11.20.12

To Bring Him Back with a Twitch Upon the Thread
Leah Libresco, Unequally Yoked

What Is Philip Pullman Doing to Fairy Tales?
Craig Bernthal, The University Bookman

A Very Tattler Thanksgiving
Rachel Shukert, Tablet

Ireland, Abortion, and a Tragic Case
John Waters,  Il Sussidiario

Conservatism Means Conservation
Roger Scruton, The Imaginative Conservative

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