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August 2025

August 12, 2025

The Fully Robby: My review of Robert George’s new book

In July I published in World Magazine a review of Robert P. George's new book,...

October 2023

October 06, 2023

Catholic Integralism and Its Discontents

I recently read two important essays critical of Catholic integralist thought. (You may ask, "What...

March 2012

March 31, 2012

Why Did Legal Elites Underestimate the Case Against the Mandate?

That's the title of Jonathan Adler's insightful post over at the Volokh Conspiracy. It begins...

December 2011

December 09, 2011

Newt Gingrich, Redemption, and the Presidency

That's the title of my latest entry over at The Catholic Thing. Here's are some...

November 2010

November 24, 2010

Today would have been William F. Buckley, Jr.’s 85th birthday

His work had a big impact on my life. Here is an excerpt from my...

October 2010

October 21, 2010

My conservative journey on a liberal road; an excerpt from Return to Rome

Jonah Goldberg of the National Review just published an edited volume, Proud to be Right:...