First Links — 11.6.13

Nature and God in Ethics
Robert T. Miller, Public Discourse

Developing Genre: St. Augustine and David Foster Wallace
Bradley M. Peper, Marginalia

The Good News About Power
James K. A. Smith, Comment

The Evolution of Evolutionary Language
Peggy Rosenthal,  Good Letters

The Sherlock Holmes of Yiddish Folk Songs
Joseph Berger,  New York Times

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