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July 2021

July 07, 2021

On Nationalisms Through Time

Not long ago, I finished reading Samuel Goldman’s insightful (and already widely-discussed) new book After...

June 2021

June 25, 2021

Tradition, Angst, and Millennial Parenthood

Over at the ever-interesting Law & Liberty site, Rachel Lu has a joint review of...

June 17, 2021

What Does the Scholastic Method Get Right and Wrong?

A few days ago, Pater Edmund Waldstein—a Cistercian monk based out of Austria, and editor...

June 09, 2021

When “Worldview” Thinking Becomes a Crutch

When I was a teenager, I enthusiastically attended programs like Worldview Academy and Summit Ministries...

May 2021

May 27, 2021

Grilling and the Common Good

Since moving to the suburbs a little over a year ago, I’ve grown increasingly fond...

May 17, 2021

Forgetting the Big Questions

A short while ago, I put out a review of Sohrab Ahmari’s fine new book...

May 08, 2021

A Note on “Masculine Fiction”

Like a decent number of other people I know, I began my fiction-reading journey as...

May 05, 2021

Theonomy and Thumos

At the risk of stating the obvious, as a general rule I tend to think...

April 2021

April 19, 2021

Donegality

While perusing Christiana Hale’s fine new book Deeper Heaven: A Reader’s Guide to C.S. Lewis’s...

April 15, 2021

Ad Astra Per Fidem: A Review of Christiana Hale’s “Deeper Heaven: A Reader’s Guide to C.S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy”

As “science fiction” stories go, C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy—Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and...

April 07, 2021

Moralistic Therapeutic Sacramentalism?

One of the profounder tragedies of adulthood is the loss of time for “big books,”...

April 02, 2021

Empire of Foucault

Ever since I can remember, I’ve had a deep and abiding love for natural history...

March 2021

March 26, 2021

Integralism and the Trickster

If you spend enough time around bookish young conservative types—particularly those of a high-church, historically-minded...

March 21, 2021

Deconstruction and Self-Deception

A few days ago, my wife and I settled in to watch Shaka King’s film...

March 10, 2021

What Is Competition For?

A couple of weeks ago, Nathan J. Robinson—whom I consistently find to be one of...

March 02, 2021

Typological Biblical Interpretation Needs Athens, Not Just Jerusalem

All things considered—but perhaps uncharacteristically for a Protestant—my theological interests have always tended more towards...

February 2021

February 17, 2021

Neil Gaiman’s Pagan Beowulf

Robert Zemeckis’s 2007 film Beowulf is a curious beast. It’s a PG-13 motion-capture/CGI hybrid, one...

February 16, 2021

Forgiveness and the Limits of the “Political”

The Witherspoon Institute’s online journal Public Discourse—a key forum for exploration of the “new natural...

January 2021

January 06, 2021

Unexpected Lessons from “Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order”

As a general rule, most right-of-center theological and political commentators don’t think very much of...

December 2020

December 30, 2020

Zorro, Myth, and Kingship

If there’s a single action movie I can say I was raised on—with the possible...

December 10, 2020

Living Christianly in the Face of Political Change

As a rule, I spend more than enough time on this site challenging expressions of...

December 04, 2020

The Best Books I Read This Year (2020 Edition)

And so another year—a year unlike any other in recent memory—draws to a close. Happily,...

December 01, 2020

Two Types of Integralism

I’ve written a lot about integralism on this site over the last few years (and...

November 2020

November 24, 2020

What If “Intellectual Diversity” Is the Wrong Higher-Ed Slogan?

Conflict on university campuses certainly isn’t anything new, as far as American history goes, though...

November 19, 2020

Why You Probably Hate Most Movie, Book, and Video Game Reviews These Days

Earlier this week, I wrote about seeing Ron Howard’s new adaptation of J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly...

November 12, 2020

When “Integration from Within” Doesn’t Work

Given the pace of the 2020 news cycle—and, well, the fact of the presidential election—you’d...

November 02, 2020

Learning from the Confucian Tradition

Last month, while leafing through the pages of the latest issue of Modern Reformation—a publication...

October 2020

October 26, 2020

Doomscrolling and the Sin of Curiositas

Among all theological concepts, one I find particularly difficult to get my head around is...

October 21, 2020

The Clash of Traditions in “The Nightmare Before Christmas”

A few days ago, my wife and I dropped by our mostly-empty neighborhood movie theater...

October 14, 2020

The Intellect as Vale of Tears

Last week, I read one of the most arresting pieces of writing I’ve come across...