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April 2026

April 25, 2026

Secrets & Lies in the Age of Truth Social

What makes Mike Leigh’s movies so beautiful and difficult is the way they resist easy...

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...

November 2020

November 23, 2020

Prayer is Left

I find myself in an uneasy situation. I don't love either Donald Trump or Joe...

July 2020

July 11, 2020

The Holy Wisdom of America’s Turkey Policy

The Hagia Sophia is back in the news—this time because Turkey’s Supreme Court ruled that...

May 2020

May 07, 2020

In the Ruins of Decaying Empire

On Wednesday, two customers in an Oklahoma City McDonald's shot at employees. They were not...

December 2019

December 04, 2019

Technocracy and Apocalypse

It’s weird to be a young man in times deemed “frightening” or “aberrant.” Does the...

August 2019

August 16, 2019

If I Were Still Conservative

Earlier, I was listening to episode six of Know Your Enemy, a podcast about Right-side...

December 2017

December 22, 2017

Language Matters

This seems an obvious statement, but, as with all things obvious, it’s only so when...

December 05, 2017

Tax Plans, Graduate Students, and Bearing the Burden

Most of what I write for this blog deals with, naturally enough, Catholicism. Sometimes I...

August 2017

August 02, 2017

Catholic Politics in the Age of Francis and Trump

As many of you know, an article in La Civilità Cattolica has stirred up a veritable...

May 2017

May 19, 2017

Donald Trump: America’s Death Rattle

I did not think Donald Trump would be impeached; in a way, I still don’t....

January 2017

January 24, 2017

Charity in the Age of Trump

Irony has been essential in the rise of Donald Trump. I’ve written about it before,...

January 21, 2017

Post-Inauguration Thoughts from a Working-Class Academic

The other day I wrote a reflection entitled, maybe too simply, “Humility.” I took about...

December 2016

December 20, 2016

Irony, Meme Magic, and the Truth about 2016

2016 has been cursed again and again as a year of unbelievable travail, a year...

November 2016

November 10, 2016

Confessions of a Catholic Anarchist in Trump’s America

Yesterday I had six hours of class—six hours that bought me a whole day to...

November 08, 2016

A Byzantine Prayer for Election Day

It’s here; it’s finally here—Election Day, November 8, 2016. For many Catholics today has taken...

November 03, 2016

2016: The Year Catholic Politics Broke

Every day I log onto Facebook and, against my better judgment, end up observing or...

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...

August 2016

August 25, 2016

An Open Letter to Pro-Life Catholics

Dear _______, We go to the same churches; we fill the same pews. We pray...

August 23, 2016

Mark, Simcha, Abortion, and Fire-Eating Trump Supporters

I have a surprise for readers: I am 22. In other words, I’m young enough...

May 2016

May 13, 2016

The Corpse of Culture Wars Catholicism

In a recent piece in Crux, Fordham professor Charles Camosy quotes Harvard Law professor Mark...

March 2016

March 03, 2016

Forgetting the Poor, We Got Trump

Non-Trump voters do not get Trump: this goes for Democrats, Republicans, most analysts, my colleagues,...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

The Not So Dumpf Donald Drumpf

If you haven’t seen John Oliver’s methodical takedown of Trump, I recommend you check it...

February 21, 2016

Pope Francis: “Donald Trump is a Protestant”

No works. Faith. No good. Or so goes the conventional Catholic understanding of justification...