First Links — 1.30.14

Aquinas the Dramatist
Daniel McInerny, Aleteia

When I Was Young at Yale
Mark Edmundson, Chronicle of Higher Education

A Modesty Proposal
Mark Hemingway, Weekly Standard

In Defense of Atonement Theology
Christopher P. Momany, Christian Century

What a Progressive Used to Be
Anthony Esolen, Public Discourse

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