First Links—6.17.15

“Everybody Worships”
Alissa Wilkinson, Books and Culture

The State of the American Mind: Anti-intellectualism in America more than 25 years after Allan Bloom. 
Book Forum, American Enterprise Institute

Why the Pope’s New Climate-Change Doctrine Matters
Emma Green, The Atlantic

The Only Path to Societal Renewal
Dan McConchie, The Gospel Coalition

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