First Links — 8.22.12

Solidarity or Bi-polarity?
Fr. Robert Barron,  RealClearReligion

David Foster Wallace’s God
D. T. Max,  Newsweek

The Talmud’s Warriors and Scholars
Adam Kirsch,  Tablet

A Pop-Culture Inferno
Elissa Schappell,  Vanity Fair

When Romney Was a Pastor
Jason Horowitz,  Washington Post

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