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December 2022

December 01, 2022

The Best Books I Read This Year (2022 Edition)

Between a long list of writing commitments and keeping up with an active toddler, it’s...

November 2022

November 29, 2022

A Typology of Conservative Protestants in an Anxious Age

In the last couple of weeks, there’s been a lot of intense discussion surrounding Stephen...

October 2022

October 05, 2022

The “Common Good” Doesn’t Have to Suck

Allow me a brief meditation on a thing I’ve learned since becoming a dad. Were...

September 2022

September 13, 2022

“No Way Home” and Whether God Should Change the Past

Spider-Man: No Way Home is one of those movies that, by all accounts, I should’ve...

August 2022

August 30, 2022

Some Questions for National Conservatism’s Theological Critics

Yesterday, a number of well-regarded theologians—including John Milbank, David Bentley Hart, Adrian Pabst, Phillip Blond,...

August 03, 2022

The MFA Novel and the Mystery Box

If you’ve picked up a volume of “literary” fiction in the past decade or so—preferably...

June 2022

June 02, 2022

“Everything Everywhere All At Once” Wasn’t Really My Thing

After seeing a lot of folks I respect rave about it, earlier this week I...

May 2022

May 19, 2022

The Movie Sequels You Hate Are About Technological Progress

It's become almost an article of faith that “toxic fans”—those who like to rail online...

May 11, 2022

Tim Keller and the Two Senses of “Winsome”

Over the last week or so, there’s been something of an online dust-up involving the...

April 2022

April 26, 2022

Is There a Rising “Neo-Fundamentalism”?

Over the last few months, in various corners of the internet I’ve started to notice...

April 04, 2022

Culture Writing and the Great Forgetting

Matthew Walther, the decidedly curmudgeonly editor of the wonderful Catholic magazine The Lamp, is always...

March 2022

March 29, 2022

Natural Law and the “Good Lives Model”

When I was working as a law clerk in the federal judiciary, I had the...

March 09, 2022

Metamodernism and Masculinity

Last year, I published an article over at American Reformer that got a decent amount...

February 2022

February 25, 2022

“Pan’s Labyrinth” and the Logic of Sacrifice

Last weekend, while I had the house to myself, I treated myself to the Criterion...

February 14, 2022

Does “Kenogaia” Have a Happy Ending?

Eastern Orthodox scholar David Bentley Hart is undoubtedly best known for his comprehensively metaphysical theology...

February 03, 2022

After “Faithful Presence”

Over the last few years, one of the most common phrases used to refer to...

January 2022

January 27, 2022

“The Secret History” as Cautionary Tale

Tara Isabella Burton, a novelist and social critic whom I always take time out of...

January 23, 2022

Rorty’s World

Not long ago, I was reading Michael Millerman’s excellent recent book Beginning with Heidegger, which...

January 17, 2022

James Bond and the Redemption of Masculinity

Like so many other longstanding fictional characters, James Bond has always been a man of...

December 2021

December 06, 2021

Cultural Christianity and Theological Potemkinism

There’s a famous philosophical thought experiment, attributed to Robert Nozick, that presents the question of...

December 01, 2021

The Best Books I Read This Year (2021 Edition)

2021 has been a banner year on the reading front, though maybe not exactly the...

November 2021

November 17, 2021

John McWhorter’s Anti-Woke Testament

The claim “wokeness is like a religion” has become a standard one. “Wokeness” may be...

November 11, 2021

What Kept Me Engaged in Church

Over at Cranach, my former literature professor Gene Veith has some thoughtful meditations on youth...

October 2021

October 22, 2021

Finding What We Want in “Midnight Mass”

On the recommendation of some folks whose opinions I trust, I recently invested seven hours...

September 2021

September 27, 2021

The Three Little Pigs and the Last Judgment

One of the unexpected joys of having a small child is having the opportunity to...

September 24, 2021

Bishop Spong’s Radical Gambit

This month marked the passing of Episcopal theologian John Shelby Spong, the longtime Bishop of...

September 09, 2021

The “Matrix” Sequels Are Better Than You Remember

It’s become a matter of conventional wisdom that the Wachowski siblings’ Matrix film trilogy—which first...

August 2021

August 22, 2021

Deconstruction is Conversion

“Deconstruction” is back in the Christian news orbit. Former megachurch pastor and bestselling author Josh...

July 2021

July 26, 2021

What “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill” Misses

From a certain distance, I’ve always been fascinated by the saga of Seattle’s Mars Hill...

July 22, 2021

Hufflepuffs and Demisexuals

At City Journal, essayist Tanner Greer has penned a fascinating piece on the political valence...