First Links — 7.21.14

Stratford Caldecott’s Conversion Story
Dwight Longenecker, Standing on My Head

The Reformicons: A Discussion
William A. Galston, Henry Olsen, Ramesh Ponnuru, et. al., Brookings

How Theology Departments Diminished Themselves into Irrelevance
Randall B. Smith, Crisis

The Mexican Plaza and the Transformation of Culture
Jose Bernardi, Marginalia

When Science Was Populist
Jonathan Rose, Literary Review

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