First Links—5.18.15

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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