First Links — 7.29.14

From Super to Nuts
James Bowman, Arma Virumque

Is Competent Authoritarianism Too Much to Ask For?
John Michael McGrath, Hazlitt

Cohabitation: Moving In and Moving On
Scott Stanley, Family Studies

Against Cardinal Kasper
Ross Douthat, Evaluations

Dylan Thomas, the Anti-Eliot
Bevis Hillier, Weekly Standard

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