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May 2026

May 05, 2026

What is Authoritarianism anyway?

It's been sitting on my shelf for two years now (sorry Penguin!), but I've finally...

July 2024

July 19, 2024

Repost of “Hillbilly Elegy” review

With the nomination of J.D. Vance as Donald Trump's running mate, I thought it worthwhile...

July 04, 2023

Raising Little Citizens

Review of "The Young Citizen's Reader" by Paul Reinsch

September 2022

September 30, 2022

Free the children

Review of "Hostages No More: The Fight for Education Freedom and the Future of the...

April 2022

April 26, 2022

Why Free Speech Matters

Review of "Dare to Speak" by Suzanne Nossel

March 2022

March 25, 2022

The Media and Institutional Health

Review of "Right in the Old Gazoo" by Al Simpson

February 2022

February 25, 2022

Out of the shadows?

Review of "Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right" by...

February 11, 2022

Populism for me but not for thee

Review of "The People, NO: A Brief History of anti-populism" by Thomas Frank

October 2020

October 30, 2020

Toppling the false gods of the age

Review of Christopher Wright's "Here are your gods"

October 23, 2020

George Will’s Mixed Sensibility

Review of George F. Will's "The Conservative Sensibility"

June 2020

June 05, 2020

A 19th Century Christian Statesman for the 21st Century?

Review of "A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan" by Michael Kazin

March 2020

March 13, 2020

Why More Money Doesn’t Make you Healthy

Review of "The American Health Care Paradox" by Elizabether Bradley and Lauren Taylor

August 2019

August 02, 2019

Should we impeach Donald Trump?

Review of "Indispensable Remedy: The Broad Scope of the Constitution's Impeachment Power" by Gene Healy

July 2019

July 12, 2019

Augustine on Politics

Continuing to read through a volume of Augustine, I've come across a short version of...

June 2019

June 14, 2019

A Fruitless Search

Review of Bradley Birzer's "Seeking Christendom"

May 2019

May 17, 2019

Evangelicals need to rethink politics

Review of "Trumpocracy" by David Frum

April 2019

April 30, 2019

The Binding’s Nature Problem

Thoughts on "The Binding" by Bridget Collins

April 23, 2019

Liberalism was bound to fail all along

Thoughts on Patrick Deneen's "Why Liberalism Failed"

April 19, 2019

The robots aren’t coming, they’re already here

Review of "Transhumanism and the Image of God: Today's Technology and the Future of Christian...

April 16, 2019

Building Communities that Matter isn’t our job

with one huge exception.

March 2019

March 19, 2019

Two on economics

For those of us who don't like economics

February 2019

February 12, 2019

Liberal Christian, there are answers to be had

What books liberal Christians can read to understand where conservatives are coming from, in response...

January 2019

January 22, 2019

“The Most Dangerous Branch” catches up with conservatives

Nearly half a century after Roe the Left sees the dangers of the Supreme Court

October 2017

October 10, 2017

The soft corruption of the church

An ancient writer speaks to the problems of modern politics and church life

October 30, 2012

Untangling God and Caesar

Review of Raised Right: How I Untangled My Faith from Politics and Learned to Start...