essays

We hold two apparently contradictory beliefs about war.

Real independence of mind can be won only by a sustained process of submission to authority.

More than even a poet, Nietzsche was a prophet—a jaundiced, nihilistic, and cracked prophet, but a prophet nonetheless.

Not Lewis the existentialist, but Lewis existentially, like Kierkegaard as much a psychologist as a theologian.

You don’t own your name, much less any pronouns.

In spite of many differences, Trump like Washington has become a providential president.