First Links — 9.4.2015

Inside a Cloistered Monastery: Joy and Love
David Gonzales, New York Times

The Centenary of the Silmarillion: Celebrating Two Tolkiens
Bradley J. Birzer, Imaginative Conservative

On the Pleasures of Not Reading
Dan Piepenbring, Paris Review

The Politics of Star Trek
Timothy Sandefur, Claremont Institute

Workplaces Make Terrible Monasteries
Leah Libresco, Patheos

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