First Links — 11.25.15

Fighting Terrorism with Transcendence
Gracey Olmstead, American Conservative

While We Were Out
Daniel Schwindt, Distributist Review

The New Dignity: Gnostic, Elitist, Self-Destructive Will-to-Power
Roberta Green Ahmanson, Public Discourse

Forensic Psuedoscience
Nathan J. Robinson, Boston Review

How France’s Leaders Failed Its People
Michel Houellebecq, New York Times

God banished from Downton Abbey, says show’s historical advisor
Patrick Foster, Telegraph

Accepting Woodrow Wilson’s Failures without Erasing History
Christine Emba, Washington Post

We Value Experience: Can a Secret Society Become a Business?
Rick Paulas, Longreads

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