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April 23, 2026

American Prometheus

In Rockefeller Center stands the famous statue of Prometheus, the benefactor of mankind, bringing fire from heaven. In Hesiod’s telling, Prometheus is accompanied by Pandora; while Prometheus brings art and learning, she brings all the pains and travails of life, slamming the lid of her famous box before hope can escape. Continue Reading...
April 20, 2026

Samuel Alito: A Portrait in Humility

I was finishing my last year of law school when the Supreme Court was significantly reshaped by the nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito. During that year, I had the rare privilege to take courses taught by one of the nation’s leading experts on the federal courts. Continue Reading...
April 16, 2026

David Agonistes, or Infinite Jest at 30

“If he had lived!” Impossible as it seems to conceive, he would have turned 64 just two months ago, on February 21. He is forever fixed in our minds as a young genius who catapulted to fame in his mid-20s and took the American literary world by storm in his early 30s with the publication of a 1,079-page novelistic tour de force (complete with 388 endnotes), followed by a national book tour that witnessed bookstores and halls in several cities packed beyond capacity. Continue Reading...
April 15, 2026

What Matters to Cultural Conservatives

There are many different kinds of conservatism—saber-rattling neoconservatives, backward-looking paleoconservatives, free-wheeling libertarians, to name a few. Ronald Reagan fused them into a winning coalition rooted in a common consensus favoring small government, free markets, and anticommunism. Continue Reading...
April 14, 2026

Trueman Among the Pagans, or Jonah in Nineveh

Carl Trueman is a prophet of late modernity. Not a prophet in the predictive sense but in the biblical sense: one called to remind Israel of who their God is and why their only hope of flourishing lies within, rather than without, the covenant He made with them. Continue Reading...
April 09, 2026

The Merchant Who Became a Saint

The figure of Omobono of Cremona occupies a peculiar place in Catholic history and Christian moral imagination. He is neither a monk nor a prince, neither a martyr nor a theologian, but a working merchant in a city whose life was already shaped by money, exchange, and competition. Continue Reading...