Links of Note

 * Kristian Skagen Ekeli, Democratic legitimacy, political speech, and viewpoint neutrality (PDF)

* Peter Hartman, Durand of St.-Pourcain's Theory of Modes (PDF)

* Freya Mobus, Can Flogging Makes Us Less Ignorant? (PDF)

* Larissa M. Katz, 'Governing Through Owners': How and Why Formal Private Property Rights Enhance State Power (PDF)

* John Ryby, Friendship and Politics, at "The Josias"

* Christopher Altieri, Assessing Pope Francis's decade at the helm

* Felipe D'Avillez looks at ways in which the abuse commission set up by the Portuguese bishops has run aground.

* Daniel Munro, Cults, conspiracies, and fantasies of knowledge

* Georg Gasser, Holm Tetens on the Moral-Existential Argument for Theism: Reasonable Hope and Wishful Thinking (PDF)

* Jacqueline Wilson, The Death and Immortality of Mortal Men in "The Lord of the Rings"

* John Danaher, Mill's Harm Principle: What is Harm and Does it Matter?, at "Philosophical Disquisitions"

* James B. Prothro, Semper Virgo? A Biblical Review of a Debated Dogma

* John S. Wilkins, Thoughts on Classification, at "Evolving Thoughts"