First Links — 8.9.13

Anthropology, Empire, and Modernity
Alan Macfarlane, Fortnightly Review

Bread in the Middle Ages
Medievalists.net

The Very Hip Rev. Gary Hall
Mark Tooley, American Spectator

Tocqueville’s Faith
Robert J. Delahunty, Center for Law and Religion Forum

Brainwashed
William M. Briggs

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