First Links — 8.26.13

A Plot Against Living: J.F. Powers’s ‘Suitable Accommodations’
D. G. Myers, Daily Beast

From the Abundance of the Heart
Alan Jacobs, Medium

A Coptic Monument to Survival, Destroyed
Samuel Tadros, Wall Street Journal

The U.S.’s Lagging Commitment to Religious Freedom
Robert P. George and Katrina Lantos Swett, Washington Post

Cardinal Newman and the Progressive View of the World
Peter Berger, American Interest

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