First Links — 12.11.12

Niebuhr, Kuyper, and Foggy Bottom
Dean C. Curry, Patheos

2012 in Science, Part I
Matthew Walhout, Books & Culture

Let’s Give Chivalry Another Chance
Emily Esfahani Smith, The Atlantic

Tolstoy’s Christ and Temperament
Helen Rittelmeyer

Abolish Social Studies?
Michael Knox Beran, City Journal

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