First Links — 7.25.14

A “Tax” in Iraq
Terry Mattingly, GetReligion

Books Are Alive
Ned Resnikoff, The Baffler

Welcome to New Urbs
Jonathan Coppage, The American Conservative

End of the Empire
Clement Dickie, O.P., Dominicana

How We Covered World War I
The Editors, America

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