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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...

August 2022

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...

May 2022

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...

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 03, 2022

After “Faithful Presence”

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

January 2022

January 23, 2022

Rorty’s World

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

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...

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 22, 2021

Hufflepuffs and Demisexuals

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

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 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 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...

April 2021

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 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...

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 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,...

November 2020

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...

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 14, 2020

The Intellect as Vale of Tears

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

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...