First Links — 8.24.12

Civility in Argument
Scott F. Aikin and Robert B. Talisse, Three Quarks Daily

How Protestants Learned to Love the Pill
Allan Carlson, Crisis

The Economist’ s Strange Resurgence
Aram Bakshian,  The National Interest

Contemporary Art: Not Enough Dionysian?
Simon Critchley, The Brooklyn Rail

A New Model for American Catholic Education
Thomas L. McDonald,  National Catholic Register

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