First Links — 6.5.13

Conscience and Its Enemies
John J. Miller & Robert P. George, National Review

The “Minor” Aesthetic Categories
Adam Jasper, Bookforum

The Problem with Praise Teams
T. David Gordon, Second Nature

American Literature and American Democracy
Colin M. Brown,  Signpostings

Were the Middle Ages Dark?
Anthony Esolen, Prager University

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