A Rocking Chair with a Fan? Parallels with Psychotherapy
The Center - “This modest and inconspicuous doctor published a 2018 guide for lay people, describing simple methods for helping people with mental health problems, entitled Where There Is No Psychiatrist.” 6/18/2021
The Center - “This modest and inconspicuous doctor published a 2018 guide for lay people, describing simple methods for helping people with mental health problems, entitled Where There Is No Psychiatrist.” 6/18/2021
Patriotism: The Supreme Political Virtue
The Center - “Here, Smith steps in, and he admirably makes a case to both the Left and the Right that patriotism is a worthy political virtue in need of resuscitation here in the United States.” 6/17/2021
The Center - “Here, Smith steps in, and he admirably makes a case to both the Left and the Right that patriotism is a worthy political virtue in need of resuscitation here in the United States.” 6/17/2021Review: Louis Menand’s “The Free World”
Criticism - “In many ways, the book also reads as a eulogy to a liberal, liberalizing, and internationalist America.” 6/14/2021
Criticism - “In many ways, the book also reads as a eulogy to a liberal, liberalizing, and internationalist America.” 6/14/2021The Two-faces of Classical Music: Criticism Good, Bad, and Ugly
Criticism - “Why, after all, should it be ‘pro-test,’ and not ‘de-test’? Protest once meant to give testimony in pro of something good, over and against something corrupt.” 6/12/2021
Criticism - “Why, after all, should it be ‘pro-test,’ and not ‘de-test’? Protest once meant to give testimony in pro of something good, over and against something corrupt.” 6/12/2021In Support of Snobbery
The Center - “The work of totalitarianism takes a lot of muscle, but most of it is done by just one: the wooden tongue.” 6/11/2021
The Center - “The work of totalitarianism takes a lot of muscle, but most of it is done by just one: the wooden tongue.” 6/11/2021Gov. Brian Kemp: How to Stand up to Corporate Pressure
The Right - “We lost the All-Star Game, but I think we won the battle because that fight has moved to other states now because we are on the right side of this issue, and we push back so hard.” 6/9/2021
The Right - “We lost the All-Star Game, but I think we won the battle because that fight has moved to other states now because we are on the right side of this issue, and we push back so hard.” 6/9/2021An Open Letter to The Rumpus
First-Person - “…I cannot stand by while supposedly smart, thoughtful, and vocal leaders in the literary world choose to misuse (or condone the misuse of) the word ‘genocide.'” 6/8/2021
First-Person - “…I cannot stand by while supposedly smart, thoughtful, and vocal leaders in the literary world choose to misuse (or condone the misuse of) the word ‘genocide.'” 6/8/2021Review: Chris Bail’s “Breaking the Social Media Prism”
The Center - “To explain why the echo chamber corrective flopped, Bail puts forth an alternative theory of how today’s social media is helping drive polarization and mutual contempt between partisans.” 6/4/2021
The Center - “To explain why the echo chamber corrective flopped, Bail puts forth an alternative theory of how today’s social media is helping drive polarization and mutual contempt between partisans.” 6/4/2021Sohrab Ahmari and Michael Brendan Dougherty on Reclaiming Faith, Family, and Nation
The Right - “In an age of iconoclasm, Ahmari reiterates the indispensable need for the icon of tradition that points beyond itself to the everlasting, and Dougherty captures how the icon of national particularism can also point beyond itself to the universal.” 6/2/2021
The Right - “In an age of iconoclasm, Ahmari reiterates the indispensable need for the icon of tradition that points beyond itself to the everlasting, and Dougherty captures how the icon of national particularism can also point beyond itself to the universal.” 6/2/2021The Greatest of the Forgotten Conservative Thinkers
The Right - “A polity of such geopolitical importance would surely be expected to have birthed an intellectual reaction to the French Revolution that was comparable to its formidable military response.” 6/1/2021
The Right - “A polity of such geopolitical importance would surely be expected to have birthed an intellectual reaction to the French Revolution that was comparable to its formidable military response.” 6/1/2021Mary Harrington: Family Formation in the 2020s
The Right - “The long-term problem there is that if your feminism becomes associated with anti-natalism, sooner or later it’s going to trigger a backlash, and that backlash is not going to look very nice for women.” 5/28/2021
The Right - “The long-term problem there is that if your feminism becomes associated with anti-natalism, sooner or later it’s going to trigger a backlash, and that backlash is not going to look very nice for women.” 5/28/2021Biden’s Tax Policies Would Hamstring Economic Recovery and Social Mobility
The Right - “The recovery itself is likely to be the largest job creator this decade.” 5/25/2021
The Right - “The recovery itself is likely to be the largest job creator this decade.” 5/25/2021Sir Roger Scruton’s Wagner
Criticism - “Scruton loved Wagner. The two were a match made in heaven, or hell, depending on your perspective and appreciation of irony.” 5/25/2021
Criticism - “Scruton loved Wagner. The two were a match made in heaven, or hell, depending on your perspective and appreciation of irony.” 5/25/2021In a Future Driven by Artificial Intelligence, “Career Adjacency” Offers Humans Agency 
The Center - “However trendy this new semantic shift, the word is more relevant than ever: “Career adjacency” is now the future of human work.” 5/24/2021
The Center - “However trendy this new semantic shift, the word is more relevant than ever: “Career adjacency” is now the future of human work.” 5/24/2021Buy Out the Settlers
The Center - “The United States can offer a very innovative solution to a seemingly intractable conflict: Pay Israel to withdraw its settlers.” 5/22/2021
The Center - “The United States can offer a very innovative solution to a seemingly intractable conflict: Pay Israel to withdraw its settlers.” 5/22/2021