First Links — 6.6.14

Why I Gave Up Alcohol
D. L. Mayfield, Christianity Today

Hitler’s ‘Mighty Miscalculation’
Malise Ruthven, The New York Review of Books

Science Confirms: Yup, This Book Really Is Bound in Human Skin
Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic

Meet Mosi Secret, The Times’ New Sin and Vice Reporter
Matthew Kassel, New York Observer

Conservatives & Higher Ed
Steven F. Hayward, The New Criterion

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