First Links—8.17.15

The Way We Speak Now
Gracy Olmstead, The American Conservative

The Coddling of the American Mind
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, The Atlantic

Russell Kirk and the Swords of Imagination
Darrin Moore, The Imaginative Conservative

The Daily Show in the Age of Irony
Johann Neem, The Hedgehog Review

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