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September 2020

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...

August 2020

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 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 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,...

May 2020

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 06, 2020

The Rothko Tragedy

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

March 2020

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...

March 08, 2020

“The Decadent Society” Misses the Mark

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

February 2020

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 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 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 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 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,...

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...

June 2019

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...

January 2019

January 02, 2019

Pantheism Ascendant?

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

December 2018

December 09, 2018

The Best Books I Read This Year (2018 Edition)

My reading goal this year was 250 books—and happily, it’s looking like I’ll finish up...

September 2018

September 05, 2018

The Long Theological Shadow

You’d be forgiven for thinking that many American churches these days are desperately trying to...

August 2018

August 09, 2018

The Strange Allure of Twitch.tv

There’s been plenty of commentary written about how Americans are lonely—how so many of us...

August 03, 2018

Starting a Secret Fire: A Review of Jonathan McIntosh’s “The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faerie”

Few writers are more beloved—especially in Christian circles—than J. R. R. Tolkien, the British philologist...

May 2018

May 31, 2018

A Big Win for Religious Liberty in Canada

I’ve written here before about the unavoidable tension between conceptions of “universal human rights” and...

May 16, 2018

Moloch in the Dock

For the last couple of weeks, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this...