First Links — 3.15.16

Mother Teresa Canonization Set for September 4
Greg Kundra, Aleteia

Trump and Trump Protesters Feed Off Each Other
Megan McArdle, Bloomberg View

What Has Rome to do with Iowa City?
Jonathan McDonald, Dappled Things

The Shalem Experiment
Kate Havard, Weekly Standard

Through Wendell Berry’s Looking Glass
Gracy Olmstead, American Conservative

History of English in Five Words
Simon Horobin, Quantz

An Ecumenical Ecology of Man
Eduardo Echeverria, Oecomene

Hearing the Lost Sounds of Antiquity
Adrienne LaFrance, Atlantic

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