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May 30, 2014
7QT: Cats that are not on fire, and more spiders than you’d expect
--- 1 --- My facebook friends are the kind of people who are patient with...
May 29, 2014
Fear of the Friendzone, Wire Monkeys, and Communion
Why do people have so much contempt for "the Friendzone"? Part of the problem is...
May 28, 2014
Making a Home for the Homely in Romance
I don't follow the opera world, but critics made enough of a stir about the...
May 27, 2014
Amazon Foreshadows Internet Fights to Come
Debates over net neutrality tend to be a bit abstract and hypothetical for consumers. Net...
May 27, 2014
Discussing Conversion with Rebecca Cherico
This past Friday, I had the pleasure of being a guest on Rebecca Cherico's radio...
May 26, 2014
Spiritual Overextrapolation [Pope Francis Bookclub]
In 2014, I’m reading and blogging through Pope Francis/Cardinal Bergoglio’s Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on...
May 25, 2014
Help me plan my summer and learn to solder!
My time at The American Conservative comes to an end this week, as the new...
May 23, 2014
7 Quick Takes (5/23/14)
--- 1 --- I'm delighted by how many of you wrote in to tell me that...
May 22, 2014
Putting the Casual Back in Casual Dating
Boston College students have been signing up for a class on dating, using it as...
May 22, 2014
Designing Emotional Contraception
Over at The American Conservative, I'm discussing a bioethicist who's done a literature review to find...
May 21, 2014
The Stories We Tell About Illness
Sarah Sparks has a really excellent post today at First Things about the interactions (good...
May 20, 2014
When Asking for Help is Generous
My piece in the most recent print edition of The American Conservative came out from behind the...
May 19, 2014
Bringing Beauty to a Gun Fight [Pope Francis Bookclub]
In 2014, I’m reading and blogging through Pope Francis/Cardinal Bergoglio’s Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on...
May 19, 2014
When “Health” Doesn’t Leave Room for Scars
Technically, I'm writing about sports this morning for The American Conservative, but, unsurprisingly, it's a feint...
May 18, 2014
A Trans-Atlantic Dating Gap
By playing the clip below, you can get a sense of my level of bafflement...
May 17, 2014
A Semi-Practical Approach to Kant
Over at Slate Star Codex, Scott is discussing my first philosophical love: Immanuel Kant. He...
May 16, 2014
7 Quick Takes (5/16/14)
--- 1 --- Ok, it turns out there have been so many cool sources of...
May 15, 2014
Practicing Custody of the Eyes Online
I'm covering the recent E.U. court decision that Google needed to remove "irrelevant" links from...
May 14, 2014
Put Up Your Ideological Dukes!
Earlier this week, Michael Roth, the president of Wesleyan University, published a good op-ed on...
May 13, 2014
You’ve Got a (Vowed) Friend in Me
A Queer Calling, an excellent blog run by two celibate women living in partnership together,...
May 13, 2014
In Which I Am Not Moved By Pandas
Yesterday, at The American Conservative, I wrote a little about what the ends of conservation...
May 12, 2014
Humble Kinds of Holiness [Pope Francis Bookclub]
In 2014, I’m reading and blogging through Pope Francis/Cardinal Bergoglio’s Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on...
May 11, 2014
Mothers, Monks, and Infinite Debts
In a bit of counterprogramming for Mother's Day, Scott of Slate Star Codex has put...
May 10, 2014
The Unexpected Consequences of Laws and Lies
Two of my recent posts at The American Conservative turned out to be about unintended consequences....
May 09, 2014
I Don’t Care Much About the Pope
Pope Benedict stepped down from the papacy during my first year as a Catholic, and,...
May 09, 2014
7 Quick Takes (5/9/14)
--- 1 --- Here's the most fun you'll have since slime molds mapped your public...
May 07, 2014
The Wrong Kind of Resilience [Pope Francis Bookclub]
In 2014, I’m reading and blogging through Pope Francis/Cardinal Bergoglio’s Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on...
May 06, 2014
Keeping the Past a Foreign Country
At The American Conservative today, I'm discussing a new method of recording oral histories that would...
May 05, 2014
Two Years Until Patheos Hits the Age of Reason
Patheos is celebrating it's fifth birthday this week, and they've asked us bloggers to reflect...
May 04, 2014
Recursion on the Road to Emmaus
I find today's Mass readings particularly wonderful, for reasons that I think are plenty enjoyable...
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