First Links — 4.15.14

Why We Need Monks
J. David Nolan, Fare Forward

Matthew Arnold’s Mistake
Angus Kennedy, Spiked Online

No, Israel Is Not About to Become a Theocracy   
Yair Rosenberg, Tablet

Portrait of the American Catholic Convert
CARA/1964

The Shopping Mall’s Socialist Prehistory
Sam Wetherell, Jacobin

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