First Links—3.20.15

Faith and Suicide
Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing

Ancients on Oldies
Richard Ingrams, The Spectator

In Defense of Difficulty
Steve Wasserman, The American Conservative

A Review of Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s “Heaven”
John Poch, 32 Poems

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