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March 2020

March 10, 2020
A few days ago, I had the pleasure of listening to a fascinating discussion/debate between...
March 08, 2020
It is a truth universally acknowledged (or, well, it should be) that Ross Douthat is...
March 04, 2020
I recently came across a compelling article by Sebastian Milbank (son of the eminent English...

February 2020

February 29, 2020
As a general rule, I try to be a pretty charitable reader. Most of the...
February 15, 2020
Last week, my wife and I swung by the local movie theater to take in...
February 09, 2020
In the last month or so, I’ve come across a number of excellent essays on...
February 08, 2020
A few days ago, the Trump administration leaked a draft executive order, “Making Federal Buildings...

January 2020

January 20, 2020
A few days ago, I ran across an interesting business article tracking the continued decline...
January 16, 2020
The films of director Terrence Malick are certainly not everyone’s cup of tea. They’re long,...
January 13, 2020
For better or for worse, there’s not that much internal drama among Missouri Synod Lutherans—or,...

December 2019

December 28, 2019
In general, this column covers a lot of pretty heavy topics. Some days, it’s time...
December 20, 2019
Over the last few months, I’ve had the pleasure of reading three fascinating books that...
December 02, 2019
Alas, professional life: perhaps the biggest downside of a legal job in downtown Washington, D.C....

November 2019

November 23, 2019
The notion of “human rights,” despite its omnipresence in modern political discourse, is not a...
November 18, 2019
Not long ago, I ran across the unfortunate news that the Boy Scouts of America...
November 05, 2019
Earlier this week, HBO dropped the first episode of His Dark Materials, the latest big-budget...

October 2019

October 31, 2019
Earlier this week, I ran across a particularly good column in The Week, penned by...
October 27, 2019
It’s impossible for me to be perfectly objective about Will Arbery’s remarkable new off-Broadway play,...
October 20, 2019
Earlier this month, U.S. Attorney General William Barr delivered a rather astonishing speech at the...
October 12, 2019
A few days ago, I found myself discussing the state of modern academia with a...

September 2019

September 28, 2019
One of the more significant influences on pop culture over the last decade or so...
September 15, 2019
Last week, in the wake of the tweetstorms that launched a thousand thinkpieces, social-conservative interlocutors...

August 2019

August 31, 2019
Though I don’t know if I’ve used the term before, a frequent subject of this...

June 2019

June 23, 2019
In recent months, much of the intellectual energy among conservative thinkers has been oriented toward...
June 19, 2019
Every so often, one runs across an argument that is so spectacularly flawed it cannot...
June 02, 2019
Last week, one of the more long-simmering disputes in contemporary conservative thought flared up pretty...

April 2019

April 09, 2019
I’ve hesitated to write anything about the storm currently brewing at my alma mater, mainly...

January 2019

January 06, 2019
As I’ve written about before, many conservative thinkers are not fond of expansive arguments from...
January 02, 2019
A few weeks ago, I found myself reading a recent essay by New York Times...

December 2018

December 22, 2018
Last week, Samuel Moyn—a professor of law and history at my alma mater—published a provocative...
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