First Links—7.29.15

A Letter to My African-American Daughter, and a Response to Ta-Nehisi Coates
David French, National Review

Why Read Christopher Lasch?
Matthew Harwood, The American Conservative

Underworld: How the Sinaloa Drug Cartel Digs Its Tunnels
Monte Reel, The New Yorke

Fetal Heartbeat and the Judicial Imagination
Hadley Arkes, The Catholic Thing

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