First Links — 7.23.14

Righteous Minds and Religious Liberty
David Zahl, Mockingbird

Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League
William Deresiewicz, New Republic

Our Duty to Iraq’s Christians
Michael Brendan Dougherty, The Week

The Geography of Melancholy
Tara Isabella Burton, American Reader

Have the Principles of the Right Been Discredited?
G. Sanchez, The Josias

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