First Links — 9.5.13

Why the Frankfurt School Couldn’t Understand Fascism
Walter Laqueur, Standpoint

Allison Benedikt’s Immodest Proposal
Christopher O. Tollefsen, Public Discourse

Dan Brown’s Inferno and Overpopulation
Ronald P. Millett, Meridian

Law, Not Theology
Kyle Duncan , Becket Fund

On Decadence
Charles Hill, American Interest

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