First Links — 7.18.13

Hart Stopping
Edward Feser

An Ambivalent Tisha B’Av
Shmuel Rosner, Latitude

Our Essential Disfigurement and the Reparation of Fiction
Joshua Hren and Joseph O’Brien, Dappled Things

The End of Racial Demagoguery
John McWhorter, New Republic

Pope in a Minefield
Tim Kelleher, RealClearReligion

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