First Links—7.7.15

No One Asks to be Buried with His iPad
Tim Wu, The New Yorker 

From the Trenches to the Shire
Matthew H. Young, University Bookman

How did Lewis and Tolkien Defend the Old West?
Bradley J. Birzer, The Imaginative Conservative

Acropolis Now
David Stewart, America

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