First Links — 2.10.16

Whatever it Takes to Make Lent Hardcore
Melinda Selmys, Patheos

Cover Story: The Headscarf, Modern Turkey, and Me
Elif Batuman, New Yorker

A Conversation with Rowan Williams
John F. Deane, Image

A Pope, a Patriarch, and Great Expectations in Cuba
Ivan Plis, National Interest

Debased Coynage
Edward Feser, Edward Feser

The Psychologists Take Power
Tamsin Shaw, New York Review of Books

To Hell With Hope
Fr. Chase Pepper, C.S.C., Holy Cross Vocations

Chess is not a Sport but a Game. So What’s the Difference?
David Papineau, Aeon

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