First Links—07.15.15

How Often do Ethics Professors Call Their Mothers?
Eric Schwitzgebel, Aeon

The Really Big One
Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker

Will Marriage Dissidents be Treated as Bigots, or Pro-Lifers?
Ryan T. Anderson, The Federalist

Under Francis, there’s a new dogma: Papal Fallibility
John L. Allen Jr., Crux

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