essays

Six centuries after Gutenberg, the Internet has had a malignant effect on the public mind.

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.

The harsh violence of Blood Meridian and Lonesome Dove draw us in more than it repels, and the proximity of death makes the actions of its dramatis personae only more vivid and compelling to us.