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January 2023

January 19, 2023

Eden Undone

If you combined the stories of “Little Red Riding Hood” and Last House on the...

December 2020

December 01, 2020

Liberalism, or Rule by Technicality

When George H.W. Bush died, he was publicly lamented as “the last WASP president,” a...

April 2020

April 07, 2020

The Religious Left and the Atheistic Right

Teaching has brought me back to Nietzsche once again. This is always a revivifying process,...

February 2020

February 07, 2020

Abusing Religious Liberty

America Magazine is reporting a victory for religious liberty. In essence, an appeals court ruled...

February 03, 2020

Living Saints: Leszek

This is the second post in a series I am writing called “Living Saints.” It...

January 2020

January 21, 2020

The Medieval and the Fascist

It is, at this point, a truism that the Middle Ages fascinate the American Alt-Right....

December 2018

December 26, 2018

Left Faithful

The “Left” in my title is indeed political, though one could also take in the...

December 23, 2018

Jubilees

This semester I taught “The Bible as Literature” (or, I should really say, I had...

December 22, 2018

A Catholic Country?

I don’t mean to invoke the United States in my title—as much as many people...

August 2018

August 03, 2018

Death to the Death Penalty?

“Suppose you were to see a man who had been justly condemned being led to...

May 2018

May 22, 2018

What is Catholic Social Teaching?

The following was written by my dear friend, Nathan Smolin, a PhD student in...

April 2018

April 12, 2018

Christian Materialism?

“Materialism” is said in many ways, almost all bad according to contemporary Christians. Sometimes it...

March 2018

March 20, 2018

When Virtue Becomes Vice and Vice Becomes Virtue

I encounter this all the time. One man’s “righteous zeal” seems to another an unjust...

March 19, 2018

The Byzantine Dorothy Day

It’s no secret that I love Dorothy Day. She has helped me make sense of...

January 2018

January 16, 2018

Catholicism, Poverty, and the Alt-Right

Journalist: What about your intellectual and cultural journey? Althusser: I encountered two men. The first...

January 09, 2018

Stewardship and the Temptations of Global Capital

A few summers ago (it’s terrifying to me that it’s been that long), I was...

December 2017

December 28, 2017

A Hermeneutics of Liberation

"Live without cares, judge no one, vex no one, and honor everyone.” – St. Ambrose...

December 25, 2017

Christos Razdajetsja!

These are the words with which my Church greets the birth of Christ: Christ is...

May 2017

May 11, 2017

Ecclesiastes Is All We Need

Everything, absolutely everything, you consider important, all the goods to which you lay claim—it’s all...

September 2016

September 29, 2016

An Orthodox Catholic Socialism?

I’m sorry to say that the new semester has overwhelmed me. Thousands of pages of...

June 2016

June 02, 2016

Pope Francis: Father Figure

My last two posts (available here and here) have attempted defenses of the current pontiff....

May 2016

May 30, 2016

The Pope of Justice and the Year of Mercy

Pope Francis—pontifex maximus of cheap grace and haphazard forgiveness, the kind of bishop who would’ve...

May 19, 2016

Feeling and Loving with the Dead

As readers of my blog may know, I am a person prone to anxiety, even...