First Links – 8.19.15

The Poet Tasters
Max Watman, Parnassus

Digital Diplomacy: Making Friends in the Age of Facebook
Dave Sharma, Tablet

Failing Into Love
Peter Blair, The American Conservative

On the Fate of Jesuit Donkeys
James V. Schall, S. J., The Catholic Thing

The Haunted Kirk
Jonathan McDonald, Dappled Things

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