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October 2022

October 05, 2022

The “Common Good” Doesn’t Have to Suck

Allow me a brief meditation on a thing I’ve learned since becoming a dad. Were...

August 2022

August 30, 2022

Some Questions for National Conservatism’s Theological Critics

Yesterday, a number of well-regarded theologians—including John Milbank, David Bentley Hart, Adrian Pabst, Phillip Blond,...

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...

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 05, 2021

Theonomy and Thumos

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

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...

February 2021

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...

December 2020

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 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 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...

September 2020

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...

June 2020

June 22, 2020

Genealogy’s End

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

May 2020

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...

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 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 04, 2020

Originalism Without a Constitution?

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

December 2019

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...

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...

October 2019

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...

September 2019

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 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...

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...

July 2018

July 04, 2018

More Thoughts on Neo-Integralism: A Critical Review of Andrew Willard Jones’s “Before Church and State”

Since I last wrote on this subject, my post discussing neo-integralism got some pushback from...

May 2018

May 23, 2018

The Coming Neo-Integralism

In the minds of a growing number of socially conservative intellectuals, classical liberalism—and, for that...