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October 2020

October 04, 2020
Almost everyone in modern America is now familiar with phrases like “white privilege,” “oppression,” “appropriation”...

September 2020

September 22, 2020
It’s been a number of months since I finished Eugene McCarraher’s behemoth book The Enchantments...
September 14, 2020
A few months ago, Reformed writer Aimee Byrd kicked up a minor firestorm in the...
September 11, 2020
Abstract art, since its inception, has probably always been something of an acquired taste. For...
September 04, 2020
I very much wanted to like David VanDrunen’s new book Politics After Christendom: Political Theology...

August 2020

August 08, 2020
For a large and growing swath of Americans, “meritocracy” is now a dirty word. To...
August 03, 2020
Earlier this week, I came across an unusually compelling article on the video game commentary...

July 2020

July 21, 2020
I have been consistently reading Terry Brooks’s Shannara Chronicles for the last eighteen years of my...
July 04, 2020
This Independence Day weekend, I dusted off what's perhaps my favorite video game of all...

June 2020

June 29, 2020
Several months ago, I came across what struck me as a particularly egregious proposal for...
June 22, 2020
After Nietzsche, where does (secular) philosophy go? Or, put a different way, given the ubiquity...
June 18, 2020
In his magisterial 2007 tome A Secular Age, Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor might’ve spoken too...
June 16, 2020
Towards the end of his recent book America On Trial: A Defense of the Founding,...
June 07, 2020
I ran across an excellent recent post by my former professor and fellow Patheos blogger,...

May 2020

May 26, 2020
Apart from the slow-smoldering controversy over “Radical Lutheranism”—a subject for another day—Lutherans don’t get up...
May 25, 2020
Like Nietzsche’s madman, Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games trilogy may have come too soon. In the...
May 20, 2020
Among proponents of an emerging “Christian postliberal” vision of life, one of the most common...
May 17, 2020
Over the last few days, I’ve been reading Oxford theologian Nigel Biggar’s interesting little book...
May 11, 2020
One of my criteria for discerning a truly good book is whether it forces me...
May 06, 2020
A few months ago, haunted by Mark Rothko’s ethereal canvases after a visit to Washington,...

April 2020

April 24, 2020
Among those discussing the future of right-of-center politics in America, few concepts seem to be...
April 08, 2020
I write this during a very strange Holy Week. With much of the world locked...
April 03, 2020
Earlier this week, out of idle curiosity I picked up Katherine Stewart’s new book The...

March 2020

March 31, 2020
Earlier today, Harvard Law School professor Adrian Vermeule dropped a bombshell in the pages of...
March 29, 2020
Isaiah Berlin once famously wrote that there are two kinds of thinkers. There are the...
March 25, 2020
Science fiction stories generally fall into one of two categories. At one pole, there are...
March 20, 2020
The best academic writing in the humanities, in my opinion, is the kind that makes...
March 20, 2020
As plenty of culture observers have remarked, mainstream cinema seems to be stuck in a...
March 15, 2020
I have a soft spot for indie video games, in particular “walking simulators” that deprioritize...
March 14, 2020
Like countless other millennial boys who came of age in the 2000s, I spent my...
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