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October 2020

October 04, 2020

Whose Cynicism? Whose Theory? How (Not) to Critique Postmodernity

Almost everyone in modern America is now familiar with phrases like “white privilege,” “oppression,” “appropriation”...

September 2020

September 22, 2020

Can Startups Design Religions?

It’s been a number of months since I finished Eugene McCarraher’s behemoth book The Enchantments...

September 14, 2020

What I Wish Aimee Byrd’s “Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood” Had Argued

A few months ago, Reformed writer Aimee Byrd kicked up a minor firestorm in the...

September 11, 2020

“The Burnt Orange Heresy” Is a Haunting Art-World Fable

Abstract art, since its inception, has probably always been something of an acquired taste. For...

September 04, 2020

“Politics After Christendom” Is Not the Political Theology You’re Looking For

I very much wanted to like David VanDrunen’s new book Politics After Christendom: Political Theology...

August 2020

August 08, 2020

What Freddie de Boer’s “The Cult of Smart” Misses About Education

For a large and growing swath of Americans, “meritocracy” is now a dirty word. To...

August 03, 2020

On Good and Evil in Video Games (Or, Notes on a More Ethical Lara Croft)

Earlier this week, I came across an unusually compelling article on the video game commentary...

July 2020

July 21, 2020

Enchantments and Disenchantment

I have been consistently reading Terry Brooks’s Shannara Chronicles for the last eighteen years of my...

July 04, 2020

“BioShock Infinite” and the Possibility of Hope

This Independence Day weekend, I dusted off what's perhaps my favorite video game of all...

June 2020

June 29, 2020

Homer and the Human Experience

Several months ago, I came across what struck me as a particularly egregious proposal for...

June 22, 2020

Genealogy’s End

After Nietzsche, where does (secular) philosophy go? Or, put a different way, given the ubiquity...

June 18, 2020

The Old Gods or the New? A Review of Tara Isabella Burton’s “Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World”

In his magisterial 2007 tome A Secular Age, Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor might’ve spoken too...

June 16, 2020

After Postliberal Despair

Towards the end of his recent book America On Trial: A Defense of the Founding,...

June 07, 2020

Trying to Read Great Books

I ran across an excellent recent post by my former professor and fellow Patheos blogger,...

May 2020

May 26, 2020

The Wrongheaded Smear Campaign Against Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Apart from the slow-smoldering controversy over “Radical Lutheranism”—a subject for another day—Lutherans don’t get up...

May 25, 2020

The Hunger Games Prequel Is Worth Your Time

Like Nietzsche’s madman, Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games trilogy may have come too soon. In the...

May 20, 2020

Umberto Boccioni and the Joyful Future

Among proponents of an emerging “Christian postliberal” vision of life, one of the most common...

May 17, 2020

“Liberalism” Is No Longer a Useful Term

Over the last few days, I’ve been reading Oxford theologian Nigel Biggar’s interesting little book...

May 11, 2020

One Assembly, One Worship Service?

One of my criteria for discerning a truly good book is whether it forces me...

May 06, 2020

The Rothko Tragedy

A few months ago, haunted by Mark Rothko’s ethereal canvases after a visit to Washington,...

April 2020

April 24, 2020

The “Common Good” Is Not the “Greatest Good for the Greatest Number”

Among those discussing the future of right-of-center politics in America, few concepts seem to be...

April 08, 2020

Virtual Communion: Beauty in the Time of Coronavirus?

I write this during a very strange Holy Week. With much of the world locked...

April 03, 2020

“The Power Worshippers” Is a Bad Book About an Interesting Topic

Earlier this week, out of idle curiosity I picked up Katherine Stewart’s new book The...

March 2020

March 31, 2020

“Common-Good Constitutionalism” and the Oath-Breaking Problem

Earlier today, Harvard Law School professor Adrian Vermeule dropped a bombshell in the pages of...

March 29, 2020

Notes on Brad Gregory’s “The Unintended Reformation”

Isaiah Berlin once famously wrote that there are two kinds of thinkers. There are the...

March 25, 2020

The First Postliberal Sci-Fi

Science fiction stories generally fall into one of two categories. At one pole, there are...

March 20, 2020

Is There Such a Thing as a “Lutheran Novel”?

The best academic writing in the humanities, in my opinion, is the kind that makes...

March 20, 2020

The Strange Power of “The Young Pope”

As plenty of culture observers have remarked, mainstream cinema seems to be stuck in a...

March 15, 2020

“Journey” and the Wisdom of the Desert

I have a soft spot for indie video games, in particular “walking simulators” that deprioritize...

March 14, 2020

How Bionicle Taught Me Natural Law

Like countless other millennial boys who came of age in the 2000s, I spent my...