First Links — 2.12.16

Interceding Discreetly
Br. Barnabas McHenry, O. P. , Dominicana

Take a Look at the Mental Junk Food Colleges Assign Students
Peter W. Wood, Federalist

Persisting in Prayer with the Caritas Podcast
Leah Libresco, Patheos

On the Right to the Most Ideal Life Possible
Melinda Selmys, Aleteia

My Secret Life as a Forbidden Second Child in China
Karoline Kan, Foreign Policy

The Little Sisters of the Poor on Why They Can’t “Just Sign the Form”
Sister Constance Veit, L. S. P., Catholic Review

We Are Hopelessly Hooked
Jacob Weisberg, New York Review of Books

Nicholas Sparks and the Evils of Banality
Heather Havrilesky, Book Forum

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