First Links — 2.1.12

Komen Drops Planned Parenthood Support
Sarah Pulliam Bailey and Ted Olsen,  Christianity Today

Steven Pinker’s Wrongness on Dignity
Christopher Kaczor, Public Discourse

Capitalism and the Hebrew Bible
Aryeh Spero, Wall Street Journal

Should the Church Have to Dispense Birth Control?
Megan McArdle, Atlantic

Marilynne Robinson’s Intellectual Pilgrimage
Charles Petersen, Book Forum

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