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October 2019

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 22, 2019

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 14, 2019

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 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 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 24, 2019

Amy Wax is Whack

The New Yorker's contentious interview with conservative University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax (entitled A Penn Law...

August 24, 2019

NYT 1619 History Project

The NY Times knows what's up. You don't have to love or agree with the premise...

August 23, 2019

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 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 17, 2019

August 16, 2019

American Jeremiad / Random Desecrations at the Altar of Impurity (3)

The Max Boot Chronicles (Continued) This post continues my account of the internecine dust-up between...

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...