First Links — 8.9.12

I, Nephi
Adam Gopnik,  The New Yorker

Puritanism and Democracy
Thomas Kidd,  The Anxious Bench

Concretizing the Abstract
Ed Feser,  Ed Feser

About That LCWR Speaker . . .
Rod Dreher,  The American Conservative

The Power to Destroy
Michael Stokes Paulsen, Public Discourse

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