First Links — 9.21.15

A Country Without Churches
Dominic Bouck, O. P. , Washington Post

It’s Finally Here: The Big Review Paper on the Lack of Political Diversity in Social Psychology
Jonathan Haidt, Heterodox Academy

A Matter of Life and Death
Calah Alexander, Patheos

Obituary for Brian Sewell: Colourful critic who waged wittily acerbic war against the inanities of modern conceptual art
Editors, Telegraph

The Bitter Cup
Clare Coffey, Washington Free Beacon

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