First Links – 12.15.14

Holy Mary, Drenched in Symbolism
E.W., The Economist

Habits of Mind
Anthony Grafton & James Grossman, The American Scholar

A Weapon for Readers
Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books

Crib has to go, says court in France after atheists challenge Catholic region’s tradition
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