FIRST LINKS — 6.19.14

The Death of Klinghoffer: If John Adams’s Opera Isn’t Antisemitic, How Can It Fan Antisemitism?
Tom Service, The Guardian

Philosophy Is A Bunch Of Empty Ideas: Interview With Peter Unger
Grace Boey, 3 Quarks Daily

Beauty Out of Madness
Theodore Dalrymple, The New Criterion

Champs-Elysées Film Festival Honors Indie Genius Whit Stillman
Talia Soghomonian, Collider

Criminal or Prisoner?
Eve Tushnet, Aleteia

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