This week’s articles of note

"The Connecticut country-club crackup," The New York Times Magazine, by Matt Bai

"America's true history of religious tolerance," Smithsonian, by Kenneth C. Davis

"The 'Freedom' agenda," The New York Times, by David Brooks [On Jonathan Franzen's Freedom]

"The non-economist's economist," Wall Street Journal, by James Grant [Essay on John Kenneth Galbraith] 

"The idea of a university," The American Spectator, by Roger Scruton

"Bruce Springsteen: 'People thought we were gone. Finished'" The Guardian, by Keith Cameron