Notes on the Surrender at Menlo Park
John Herrman, The Awl
You Get What You Pay For
Aaron MacLean, Washington Free Beacon
The Real But Overstated Decline of American Christianity
Ross Douthat, The New York Times
Pope Francis Canonizes Two 19th-Century Palestinian Nuns
Francis X. Rocca and Joshua Mitnick, The Wall Street Journal
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