First Links—6.19.15

Pope Francis Wants to Roll Back Progress. Is the World Ready?
Matthew Schmitz, Washington Post  

The Real Lesson of the Stanford Prison Experiment
Maria Konnikova, New Yorker

Treasure in Heaven
Peter Brown, Lapham’s Quarterly

Ditch the Summer Reading List
Stephanie Cohen, Acculturated

The Trouble with Gay Marriage
Brendan O’Neill, Spiked!
(With thanks to our reader Katherine for the tip!)

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