First Links — 5.3.13

Beauty That Makes You Want to Believe
Br. Henry Stephan, O.P., Dominicana

Selected Translations
Micah Mattix, Books & Culture

Move to the City
Alan Jacobs, American Conservative

The Decline of the Rabbi-Intellectual
Zach Mann, Jewish Ideas Daily

Hope, North Korea, and Choco Pies
Richard Lloyd Parry, London Review of Books

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