Recent Writing for a Broad Audience

• Essays in Line of Beauty, a joint newsletter with Tara Isabella Burton  - some recent essays concern: 
  • why life is not a story;
  • comedy and tragedy; 
  • liberal education; and more!
• "Morality and the Aims of Politics" for Earth & Altar
• "Music and Morals" for Plough Quarterly
• "Justice and the State: Against a Christian Caliphate" for Athwart
• "Choosing America" for Plough Quarterly
• "What is Reality?" for Earth & Altar
• "Courage, Citizenship, and the Limits of Autonomy" for Breaking Ground [chosen for publication in a volume of essays on the pandemic edited by Susannah Black and Anne Snyder]
• "Expectation and Narrative: Reflections on Advent" for Earth & Altar
• "What to an Immigrant is the Third of November?" for Breaking Ground
• "The Politics of Polyphonic Singing" for Plough Quarterly
• Look out for forthcoming essays in Plough Quarterly on legacy and lineage and in Commonweal on the common good.

Other Media

• Podcast on Rooted Cosmopolitanism for PloughCast with Susannah Black and Peter Mommsen
• Panelist, Roundtable on Populism, The Helix Center
• Should Some Books Not Be Read? A Veritas Forum discussion with Tara Isabella Burton
• Interview on Augustine's Confessions for the Writ Large podcast with Zack Davis
• Lecture on the Anti-Moral Imagination of Michel Houellebecq for the Morningside Institute
• Interview on Sophocles and Greek Tragedy for the Sacred & Profane Love podcast with Jennifer Frey

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