First Links — 1.29.16

Dispatch from Sundance
Alissa Wilkinson, Christianity Today

What Do Anti-Abortion Demonstraters Want (Besides An End to Abortion)?
Leah Libreso, Five Thirty Eight

The Trade-in Society
Alan Jacobs, American Conservative

Purity and Intelligible Light
Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., Sancrucensis

It’s Time to Rebuild New York’s Original Penn Station
Justin Shubow, Forbes

The Inside Story of the Turnpike Mass, from the Priest Who Led It
Fr. Patrick Behm, Church Pop

Does Europe Have a Future?
Daniel Johnson, Mosaic

The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels
Adelle Waldman, New Yorker

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