First Links — 8.1.13

Sea Change
Lewis H. Lapham, Lapham’s Quarterly

Forgiveness Wins: The Perversity of the Prodigal Father
Cosmos in the Lost

Conservative Catholics and the New Pope
Ross Douthat, Evaluations

Out of the Antiworld
James Kalb, Intercollegiate Review

How Seminal Was Burke?
Simon Heffer, Standpoint

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