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June 2020

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...

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 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...

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 10, 2019

The Creation Project: Table of Contents

For those who are interested, I include below the preliminary table of chapter contents for...

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 06, 2019

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 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 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...

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 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 23, 2019

From Working Class to White Trash: Risk, Responsibility, Causation, and Brokenness in the United States

Long before Donald Trump seized his spurious, self-canceling political moment as the imagined defender and...

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...

July 17, 2019

Welcome to Bizarro World: Ayn Rand, Donald Trump, and the Assault on Public Institutions

Well, since we've been chatting about Peter Thiel ... In July 2017, The New York Times...