“Telling stories is as basic to human beings as eating. More so, in fact, for while food makes us live, stories are what make our lives worth living. They are what make our condition human.”
Escaping the Dire Hose: A Conversation with Alan Jacobs on the Gift of Old Books - November 2020
Skin in the Game (w/the Editors) - November 2018
When the Ship Has Sailed: A Conversation with Alan Jacobs on Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis - August 2018
Unexceptional Goals - June 2018
What Something Is - May 2018 (print - Issue 16)
Accounting for Tradition: A Conversation with Philip Gorski - January 2018 (print - Issue 15)
Letter on Reformation from the Editors - January 2018 (print - Issue 15)
What We Despise - January 2017
Federer as Crisis of Faith? - September 2015
Hunger Games - March 2015
The Simmons Affair - October 2014
Descent: Lance Armstrong and the Fall of Pro Cycling - June 2014
Left for Dead: On the Philosophical Life and Vocation of Walter Kaufmann - August 2019
Review - Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers by Edward Mendelson - March 2016
Review - ESPN 30 for 30, Sole Man by Dan Marks and Jon Weinbach - July 2015
Review - The Game of Our Lives: The English Premier League and the Making of Modern Britain by David Goldblatt - March 2015
There is Simply Too Much More to Think About - November 2019
"I Will What?" Saul Bellow and the Madness of Our Moment - May/June 2016 (print)
The Ideology of the Olympics - August 2016
Football on the Corporate Campus - September 2015
Paideia on the Practice Field - February 2018
The Shipwrecked Book: Mark Lilla's Nostalgic Prison - March 2017
Designed to Unsettle: Behind the Thinking of Hannah Arendt - October 2016
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Hannah Arendt: On The Company and the Banisters We Keep - July 2019
Awake and Mourning: Jonathan Lear's, Wisdom Won From Illness - September 2017
A Better Way to Live: Reflecting on the Legacy of Robert Silvers - May 2017 (first published on my blog)
FIRST THINGS
Review - Deep, Down, Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in A Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set Them Free, by Hector Tobar - Jan 2016 (print)
Review - Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds; A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps by Peter Adamson - November 2015
Neo-Liberal Education: A Conversation with William Deresiewicz - June 2015
Review - America's Pastor; Billy Graham and the Shaping of A Nation, by Grant Wacker - Feb 2015 (print)
The Elect and the Accursed - August 2013
Our Deepest Most Reverent Desires: Don DeLillo's Zero K - Fall 2016 (print)
A Canvas and A Battle Ground: Mark Rothko and the Seagram's Commission - XVI:1 2016 (print)
Capital Management; A Conversation with Ben Olsen - October 2015 (print, issue 6)
Omar In His Own Words; A Conversation with Omar Gonzalez - July 2015
Why the USL Holds the Key to MLS's Future - March 2015
New Kid on the Block: A Conversation with With Harry Shipp - February 2015
Patrick Mullins Interview (first published at NSCAATV.com) - December 2014
The Landon Donovan Question - October 2014
To Pay or Not to Pay: A Conversation With Michael Gillespie - October 2015
Review - Why Football Matters; My Education in the Game by Mark Edmundson - October 2014
Maurice Edu: Ranger's Return - September 2014
Scarcely Believable - June 2014