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October 2020

October 31, 2020

The Red Sky on 9/11

In late August, I drove from Seattle, Washington to Portland, Maine with my younger...

October 30, 2020

The Republican Senate’s Thousand-Year Reich

But the federal courts have always been the big play for Republicans, and an obvious...

July 2020

July 28, 2020

July 22, 2020

The Secret Mission | #2 | A Substack Newsletter | July 20, 2020

The Secret Mission is the title of my weekly Substack Newsletter. This is the 2nd...

July 07, 2020

Trump | Gollum

In The Lord of the Rings, Frodo descending into one of the darker moments of...

July 06, 2020

Inkling News – Thousands of Stories. On Everything that Matters.

Sometimes writing connects us to the world. Sometimes writing helps us to escape from the...

June 2020

June 16, 2020

June 15, 2020

The Silent Part Out Loud: A Creation Project Origin Story, Starring Antonin Scalia

This essay recalls how an essay I wrote in 2013 about Supreme Court Justice Antonin...

June 14, 2020

William Barr and the Tropes of Natural Law

This essay emphasizes how neo-Thomist Natural Law moral philosophy animates and defines the political and...

February 2020

February 13, 2020

It’s Okay To Hate Donald Trump. But Is It Enough?

Like many/most Americans, I loathe Donald Trump. I loathe him on his worst day, and...

February 13, 2020

Which Side Are You On? The Lost Art of Campaign Journalism

Ahh, the lost art of campaign journalism. In this New Yorker piece about the Bernie Sanders...

January 2020

January 28, 2020

January 08, 2020

What Is New About The New Atheists?

In my previous essay, I invoked “those famously fratricidal brothers, Peter and Christopher Hitchens, who published...

December 2019

December 30, 2019

December 20, 2019

Revisiting the New Atheists

There is a widely held (and somewhat depressing) view that most people are hedgehogs. We have One...

December 10, 2019

December 02, 2019

November 2019

November 21, 2019

The Law as Society’s “Operating System”

How the Federalist Society Stole the Federal Judiciary, Conquered Washington DC, and Imperiled the Nation...

November 20, 2019

How the Federalist Society Stole the Federal Judiciary, Conquered Washington DC, and Imperiled the Nation

This is essay #1 of a multi-part series about how the remarkable political and legal...

November 14, 2019

Know Your Enemy: A Podcast About Conservative Ideas That Speaks To All Of Us

If you're looking for a podcast that speaks to the political and spiritual confusion of...

November 11, 2019

November 10, 2019

November 09, 2019

November 08, 2019

November 04, 2019

November 03, 2019

November 02, 2019

Move Fast and Break Things: Authoritarian Politics, Digital Technology, and Trump’s Disruptive Heart of Darkness

The recent, much-discussed NY Times article about Trump presidential campaign digital ad spending, entitled Trump...

November 01, 2019