First Links — 12.4.13

Beauty and Truth, Laughter and Memory
Peter Makuck,  Hudson Review

How the NSA Enables Privacy
Jonathan Askonas,  Fare Forward

The Boomer Bust
P. J. O’Rourke,  Wall Street Journal

Here Be Monsters
Maria Warner,  New York Review of Books

Bad Jeeves Fanfiction
Isaac Chotiner,  New Republic

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