First Links — 2.14.14

Frank Sheed: A Man Obsessed with Sanity
Carl E. Olson & Joseph F. Martin, Catholic World Report

How to Make God Laugh
Peter Berger, American Interest

What’s The Point If We Can’t Have Fun?
David Graeber, The Baffler

Mandate Defenders Try a New Tack
Richard Reinsch, Library of Law & Liberty

On Not Going Home
James Wood, London Review of Books

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