First Links — 2.7.14

Can Marriage Cure Poverty?
Anne Lowrey, New York Times

How the U.N. Could Hurt Vatican Reform
John L. Allen, Jr., Boston Globe

A New Constitutional Convention?
James Poulos, Daily Beast

On Dithering and Vocations
James Chastek, Just Thomism

The Quantified Life: Self-Knowledge Through Numbers
Josh Cohen, Prospect

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