First Links — 3.12.14

On Monastic Papacies
C. C. Pecknold, Ethika Politika

The Paradox of Individualism
Mark S. Weiner, Cato Unbound

A Dishonest “Cosmos”
Thomas L. McDonald, God and the Machine

Plato at the Googleplex
Colin McGinn, Wall Street Journal

Why Call Inexplicable Facts “Brute”?
James Chastek, Just Thomism

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