First Links — 2.6.15

Genius Denied and Reclaimed: A 40-Year Retrospect on Marshall G.S. Hodgson’s “The Venture of Islam”
Bruce B. Lawrence, Marginalia

Holy Hatred
Br. Humbert Kilanowski, Dominicana

“On the Way to School” Quietly Reveals the Heroic Journeys Kids Take to Get to Class
Chris Packham, The Village Voice

The Good, the Highest Good, and the Common Good
Edmund Waldestein, O.Cist, The Josias

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