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March 2020

March 10, 2020

What Does Healthy Campus Debate Look Like?

A few days ago, I had the pleasure of listening to a fascinating discussion/debate between...

March 08, 2020

“The Decadent Society” Misses the Mark

It is a truth universally acknowledged (or, well, it should be) that Ross Douthat is...

March 04, 2020

Originalism Without a Constitution?

I recently came across a compelling article by Sebastian Milbank (son of the eminent English...

February 2020

February 29, 2020

How to Lose a Generation: Against Tony Morgan’s Worship Quick-Fixes

As a general rule, I try to be a pretty charitable reader. Most of the...

February 15, 2020

Aristotle and the Architecture of Gotham City

Last week, my wife and I swung by the local movie theater to take in...

February 09, 2020

Why Do People Love Literature, Anyway?

In the last month or so, I’ve come across a number of excellent essays on...

February 08, 2020

Big Architecture Hates You

A few days ago, the Trump administration leaked a draft executive order, “Making Federal Buildings...

January 2020

January 20, 2020

Why I Go Out to the Movies

A few days ago, I ran across an interesting business article tracking the continued decline...

January 16, 2020

The Power of “A Hidden Life”

The films of director Terrence Malick are certainly not everyone’s cup of tea. They’re long,...

January 13, 2020

The Southern Baptist Breakdown

For better or for worse, there’s not that much internal drama among Missouri Synod Lutherans—or,...

December 2019

December 28, 2019

How to Tell Good “Star Wars” Stories

In general, this column covers a lot of pretty heavy topics. Some days, it’s time...

December 20, 2019

The Abrahamic Faiths and the Acid of Modernity

Over the last few months, I’ve had the pleasure of reading three fascinating books that...

December 02, 2019

The Best Books I Read This Year (2019 Edition)

Alas, professional life: perhaps the biggest downside of a legal job in downtown Washington, D.C....

November 2019

November 23, 2019

Is “Human Rights” Too Inflated an Ideal?

The notion of “human rights,” despite its omnipresence in modern political discourse, is not a...

November 18, 2019

What Are the Boy Scouts For?

Not long ago, I ran across the unfortunate news that the Boy Scouts of America...

November 05, 2019

The Curious Anachronism of “His Dark Materials”

Earlier this week, HBO dropped the first episode of His Dark Materials, the latest big-budget...

October 2019

October 31, 2019

Stop Giving Kids Worthless Books

Earlier this week, I ran across a particularly good column in The Week, penned by...

October 27, 2019

“Heroes of the Fourth Turning”: The One Play You Really, Really Need to See

It’s impossible for me to be perfectly objective about Will Arbery’s remarkable new off-Broadway play,...

October 20, 2019

Should Religious Liberty Be a Voting Issue?

Earlier this month, U.S. Attorney General William Barr delivered a rather astonishing speech at the...

October 12, 2019

The Incoherence of the Universities (And a Postliberal Alternative)

A few days ago, I found myself discussing the state of modern academia with a...

September 2019

September 28, 2019

Lovecraft and the Metacrisis of Liberalism

One of the more significant influences on pop culture over the last decade or so...

September 15, 2019

The Ahmari-French Debate: Still Missing the Point

Last week, in the wake of the tweetstorms that launched a thousand thinkpieces, social-conservative interlocutors...

August 2019

August 31, 2019

That Mysterious Thing, the “Liberal State”: A Response to Andrew Willard Jones, Marc Barnes, and Jacob Fareed Imam

Though I don’t know if I’ve used the term before, a frequent subject of this...

June 2019

June 23, 2019

Confronting “The Limits of Liberalism”

In recent months, much of the intellectual energy among conservative thinkers has been oriented toward...

June 19, 2019

How (Not) to Write About Natural Law

Every so often, one runs across an argument that is so spectacularly flawed it cannot...

June 02, 2019

The Death of Liberal Democracy: A Few Notes on the Ahmari-French Controversy

Last week, one of the more long-simmering disputes in contemporary conservative thought flared up pretty...

April 2019

April 09, 2019

Some Thoughts on Yale Law, Nondiscrimination, and Religious Freedom

I’ve hesitated to write anything about the storm currently brewing at my alma mater, mainly...

January 2019

January 06, 2019

Does the Evolution of “Human Rights” Drive Modern Abortion Politics?

As I’ve written about before, many conservative thinkers are not fond of expansive arguments from...

January 02, 2019

Pantheism Ascendant?

A few weeks ago, I found myself reading a recent essay by New York Times...

December 2018

December 22, 2018

Catechesis and Complicity

Last week, Samuel Moyn—a professor of law and history at my alma mater—published a provocative...