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August 2019

August 14, 2019

The Masturbation Chronicles

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

August 14, 2019

The Liquid Dream of Governor Moonbeam

Drycephalus Water is poetry. Loose-limbed and supple. Deserts are prose. Hard, inflected, and jagged. Water is...

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 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...

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 22, 2019

July 21, 2019

‘Send Her Back:’ Limitations of a Language Lens on Racism

The underlying dynamics that cause & perpetuate racism are incredibly complicated, requiring honesty & introspection....

July 20, 2019

Thirteen Ways to Think About the Election of Donald Trump

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,”...

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 18, 2019

“The Left Ruins Everything It Touches:” A Peek Inside the Weird, Sputtering Brain of Dennis Prager

Despite his wannabe symphony orchestra conducting pretensions, Dennis Prager is one of the more discordant...

July 16, 2019

Return to Oz: Peter Thiel’s Retro Futurism and the Perils of Limitlessless Self-Love

Early in 2017, the redowdable Maureen Dowd interviewed Peter Thiel (for the “Fashion and Style” section of...

July 14, 2019

Serving God and Mammon: The Rise and Influence of the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society

The Creation Project excavates Western history using the conceptual tools of complexity science. The contemporary...

July 12, 2019

Culture War Catholicism and American Conservative Politics

Conversations on religious influences in American public life in the Trump era typically focus on...

July 10, 2019

The Creation Project: Revealed Religion, Natural Law, Western Civilization, and the Ends of the Earth

The premise of The Creation Project is that we will never understand and address the...