Latest Essays
Why is There a Patriotism Gap?
Newsweek, September 29, 2020.
The Left Still Blames America First
The Wall Street Journal, August 19, 2020.
Canon Fodder
Claremont Review of Books, August 2020.
The Hidden Trauma of Identity Politics
The Critic, July 28, 2020.
SIX RULES FOR PRO-LIFE RADICALS
First Things, February 20, 2020.
Trudeau, Buttigieg, Harris, Yang: Identity Politics Eats Its Own
The Bulwark, September 21, 2019.
The Lure of Androgyny
Commentary Magazine, September 19, 2019.
Goodbye to "So What?"
First Things, September 13, 2019.
Understanding the ‘Pop’ in Populism
The American Conservative, September 3, 2019.
Identity Politics Runs Much Deeper than Politics
National Review Interview, August, 27 2019.
Redeeming the Prodigal Father
The Catholic Thing, August 6, 2019.
Two Nations, Revisited
National Affairs, Fall 2018.
The Prophetic Power of Humanae Vitae
First Things, April 2018
Cupid, Interrupted
Claremont Review of Books, March 2018
Our Man in the Vatican
The New Criterion, March 2018
Why the Pro-Life Movement Will Live Long and Prosper
First Things, Jan 23, 2018
Eminem and Gandhi Are Right
The Weekly Standard, Jan 18, 2018
The Zealous Faith of Secularism
First Things, Jan 15, 2018
Where the Revolution Has Led: An Interview With Mary Eberstadt
Catholic News Agency, Nov 20, 2017
A Fisherman On K Street
The Catholic Thing, Nov 2, 2017
Michael Novak by the Sea
First Things, May 2017.
The Glamour of Good: Remembering Kate O’Beirne
The Catholic Thing, April 29, 2017
The Phoenix in the Ashes of the Culture Wars
The Catholic Thing, April 2017
Confessions of an Armchair (Moral) Geologist
The Catholic Thing, February 2017
How Protests against Donald Trump Reveal a Class Divide
TIME, February 2017
Progressivism Is As Progressivism Does
Weekly Standard, July 2015
The Left Has a Religion: The Supreme Court Just Proved It
National Review, June 2016
Why Animal Lovers Should Abhor Planned Parenthood
National Review, August 2015
The New Intolerance: An Adaptation of the First Annual First Things Lecture,
From Campus Bullies to Empty Churches
Intercollegiate Review, Spring 2015
You Are More Important Than You Know
Commencement address to Seton Hall University, National Review Online, May 2014
A Case for the Moral Consideration of Animals
National Review Online, October 21, 2013
The Real Made Sacred: On Seventeenth Century Spanish Sculpture
The Catholic Thing, May 2010
Mothers in Combat Boots
Remembering Karen Novak, 1938-2009
First Things, November 2009
My Irving Kristol and Ours
The Weekly Standard, October 2009
Pro-Animal, Pro-Life
First Things, June 2009
Is Pornography the New Tobacco?
Policy Review, No. 154, April 2009
Is Food the New Sex?
Policy Review, No. 153, January 2009
The Vindication of Humanae Vitae
First Things, August/September 2008
