First Links—5.15.15

Why Secular Liberalism Isn’t Liberal
Forfare Davis, The University Bookman

“Academia is the Titanic”: Mark Bauerlein on Teaching in the New American University
Scott Kaufman, Salon

Catholicism v. Materialism
Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing

America’s Changing Religious Landscape
 Pew Forum

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