First Links — 4.2.12

On Leaving, and Not Leaving, the Church
Various, New York Times

A Confusion of Harmonies
Eric Ormsby, New Criterion

Palm Sunday’s Simple English Propers
Jeffrey A. Tucker, New Liturgical Movement

Jonathan Haidt, Academia, and Partisanship
Timothy Dalrymple, Philosophical Fragments

Romney’s Mission in France
Vivienne Walt, Time

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