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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 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...

November 2019

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...

October 2019

October 30, 2019

Conscience and the Scientific Community: A Profile of Kennette Benedict, Ploughshares Fund Board Member

This article originally appeared on the Ploughshares Fund website. For nearly 40 years, Ploughshares Fund...

October 13, 2019

Virtue and Power: The Political Dysphoria of Natural Law Moral Philosophy

This (thank God) is my final essay on Princeton professor Robby George and natural law...

September 2019

September 23, 2019

Alien vs. Predator: The Metastasis of Steve Bannon

As I’ve previously written, in the spirit of Yeats’s Second Coming poem, the axis of...

September 18, 2019

Steve Bannon’s Pennywise Moment

Previously: Steve Bannon's Second Coming Bannon at the Vatican In the summer of 2014, Steve...

September 11, 2019

Steve Bannon’s Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall...

September 10, 2019

Neil Gorsuch and the Frozen Future of the Federal Courts

Imbibing the insinuating logic of “natural law,” “originalist” and “textualist” methods, Neil Gorsuch heralds a...

September 07, 2019

Facing Nuclear Threats: A Profile Of Gael Tarleton, Ploughshares Fund Board Member

This article originally appeared on the Ploughshares Fund website. For nearly 40 years, Ploughshares Fund...

September 05, 2019

Trump Likes to Watch: The Visual Foundations of Modern Politics

Following the 2016 presidential election, Politico published a really interesting post (and podcast) about Chuck Todd’s experiences interviewing Donald...

September 05, 2019

Eight Thoughts on Guns and Freedom

Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists. – Sarah Palin (NRA annual meeting, 2014) Guns give...

August 2019

August 30, 2019

From Aquinas to Abortion: Self-Consuming Sexual Sagas of the New Natural Law

Natural law philosophy assumes intrinsic rational capacities of humans to properly perceive and pursue uniquely...

August 18, 2019

Andrew Yang, On His Solutions-Oriented, Depoliticised Moral Vision

This is a guest post from journalist Andrew Schwartz, who spoke with Andrew Yang in...

August 15, 2019

American Jeremiad / Random Desecrations at the Altar of Impurity (2)

The Max Boot Chronicles When I was taking a second spin through Berkeley in the...

August 10, 2019

August 08, 2019

Aaron’s Rod: The Righteous Religious Rage of Robert P. George

In October 2015, Bloomberg further burnished Robby George’s reputation as the wise man of the...

August 06, 2019

God and Religion at Princeton

Collegiate gothic citadel of learning in a historic, picturesque town roughly equidistant from New York...

August 02, 2019

Unalienable Rights, Alien Populations and Natural Law

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they...

July 2019

July 29, 2019

‘Hamilton the Musical’ and the American Historical Imagination

I'll just say it. Four years out, Hamilton the Musical remains the most important American cultural moment of the...

July 26, 2019

Amy Wax’s Recent Inflammatory Statements on Cultural Nationalism and Immigration

For those interested in a framework for thinking about University of Pennsylvania Law School professor...

July 25, 2019

Alexander Hamilton, Senator Mike Lee, and the U.S. Constitution

“Mine is an odd destiny. Perhaps no man in the United states has sacrificed or...