First Links — 2.23.15

The Twee Tribe
Anna Katharina Schaffner, The Times Literary Supplement

Virtue, Family, and Community
Micah Mattix, The University Bookman

Assaulted by Moscow and Abandoned by Rome
Sandro Magister, Chiesa

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