Links? Links.

Here are some things I read recently but didn't get around to blogging about:

• Paul Ryan isn’t a deficit hawk. He’s a conservative reformer.
• No, Chicago Is not more dangerous than Afghanistan.
• Flannery O’Connor on Ayn Rand
• Here come the Serious Journalists.
• On dealing with a student who doesn't believe in revolution
• The truth about welfare
• Farming without water
• A professor compiles the highlights of his first-year students' papers
• An artist looks at disposable marriages
• Meet Keystone XL’s worst enemy: the burying beetle
• Another season of Rev.!
• The presumption of equality

Links are also posted throughout the day in the right-hand sidebar of my main blog page and in this feed.