First Links — 4.8.16

Liturgical Time Travel
Br. Humbert Kilanowski, O. P., Dominicana

Batman V. Superman: Battle Without Honor or Humanity
Alexi Sargeant, Acculturated

Restrictions on Women’s Religious Attire
Staff, Pew Research Center

How Covenants Make Us
David Brooks, New York Times

A Happy Marriage Across Party Lines
Jeanne Safer, Wall Street Journal

The Mighty and the Almighty: George W. Bush
Hannah Malcolm, Theos

The Literary Magazine of the Dark Web
Nathan Smith, Atlantic

Give Sorrow Words: On the Many Stagings of Macbeth
Kevin D. WIlliamson, New Criterion

What I’ve Learned Reciting Poems in the Street
Gary Dexter, Spectator

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