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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 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...

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 20, 2019

Revisiting the New Atheists

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

November 2019

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 18, 2019

Toward a New Cosmology: The Grand Pivot from Natural Law to Complexity Science

As we can see from the hardening religious impulse in our current authoritarian, autocratic moment,...

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 06, 2019

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 22, 2019

Human Reason and Its Discontents: A Natural Law Sampler

The selections below illustrate the broad scope and application of natural law philosophy to Christian...

August 19, 2019

Agent of Misdirection: John Calipari and the Theatrics of Race, Basketball, and Money

Misdirection. A form of deception in which the attention of an audience is focused on...

August 14, 2019

The Masturbation Chronicles

I just read the Patheos post by Catholic apologist Dave Armstrong, entitled Masturbation: Thoughts on Why...

August 12, 2019

Robby George’s Primer on Natural Law

In 2007, Professor Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program...

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...

July 2019

July 24, 2019

The Divinity of Data: Artificial Intelligence, the Death of God and the End of Individuality

In the first decade of the 21st century, an unsexy, inoffensive software markup language called...

July 19, 2019

Wolf at the Door: Antonin Scalia and the Death of American Law

Note: I wrote this essay a number of years ago, but am mindful of its...