First Links — 4.10.14

When Good Intentions Make Bad Art
James Tillman, Public Discourse

What Is It About Metropolitan?
B. D. McClay, American Spectator

The ‘Great Year’ Theory of History
Simon Reid-Henry, Intelligent Life

Catholic Education and the Bureaucratic Usurpation of Grace
Tracey Rowland, ABC Religion & Ethics

The Road to Dhimmitude
Richard Samuelson, Library of Law & Liberty

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