Portfolio
Conservatives, Pay Attention to Horror Movies | The American Spectator, July 2026
A Comfortable Demise | RealClearBooks & Culture, June 2026
We Taught Young Evangelical Men to Hate Themselves. I Was One of Them | Anthony B. Bradley Substack, May 2026
Handwriting’s Classroom Comeback | Mind Matters, April 2026
Longform Nonfiction in Decline? | Mind Matters, April 2026
What is Meta Up To? Big Tech Turns to AI Investment | Mind Matters, March 2026
What Grief Can Teach | Mere Orthodoxy, March 2026
Indie Presses Are Good. Skilled Writing Is Better. | The Dispatch, March 2026
Are Young People Getting Tired of AI? | Mind Matters, February 2026
Tending Place on the Edge of a Decaying Empire - Front Porch Republic, January 2026
The Decline of K-12 Literacy and What Might Help | Mind Matters, January 2026
Plain ‘Literacy’ Isn’t Enough - The Dispatch, January 2026
Avatar: Fire and Ash: Beautiful and Bland | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics, December 2025
Should Everyone Write?Mere Orthodoxy, December 2025
The Not-So-Curious Persistence of J.R.R. Tolkien, The Dispatch, November 2025
The Dock | Vilas Avenue, October 2025
A Dog Named Job by Peter Biles – literally stories, October 2025
The Limits of the Think Piece - Christianity Today, September 2025
Screwtape starts a podcast | WORLD, September 2025
CBS in Talks to Buy The Free Press | Mind Matters, September 2025
Thanks to Our Screens, Heading Toward a Post-Literate Culture? | Science and Culture Today, August 2025
In a Materialistic Universe, Literature Doesn’t Make Sense | Science and Culture Today, August 2025
Augmented Technology Wants to Hide in Order to Dominate | The American Spectator, August 2025
Colbert, CBS, and the Shrinking of Legacy Media | Mind Matters, July 2025
AI Songs and Bands Are Creeping into Spotify | Mind Matters, July 2025
The Crisis of the Male Protagonist | The Dispatch, July 2025
The Post-College Friendship Slump | Inkwell, May 2025
Abolitionism’s George Washington | The Russell Kirk Center, April 2025
AI Slop is Invading the Culture | Mind Matters, April 2025
Are Colleges Beyond Saving? | Mind Matters, April 2025
"Turbo" | Front Porch Republic, March 2025
Tariffs Would Eat the Video Game Industry, Entertainment's Biggest Sector | RealClearMarkets, March 2025
No End in Sight for AI’s Invasion into Higher Education | Mind Matters, March 2025
A New McDonald’s PlayPlace Doesn’t Look Very Fun | Mind Matters, March 2025
Douthat Makes the Case for Religion | Evolution News, February 2025
A Novelist Posts on the Paranormal | Mind Matters, February 2025
Writing for the Common Good | Front Porch Republic, February 2025
The Universe’s Remarkable Intelligibility | Evolution News, February 2025
Who Asked for a Goonies Reboot? | RealClearBooks, February 2025
Music in the Mind | Mind Matters, January 2025
Tell, Don’t Just Show | Pens and Poison, December 2024
The Absurdity of Our Media Moment | Mind Matters, December 2024
Books, Scrolls, and the Liberating Power of Fiction | Keinrath Publishing, December 2024
Universities Need to Stop Coddling Students with Cancelled Classes | RealClearEducation, December 2024 (Cowrote with Dr. Keri D. Ingraham of Discovery Institute)
The Observer | Silly Goose Press, November 2024
November | Battle the Bard, November 2024
The Rings of Power Has ChatGPT Syndrome | The American Spectator, September 2024
Experience is Going Extinct: A Review of Christine Rosen’s New Book | Mind Matters, September 2024
Smartphones are Killing Kids’ Ability to Concentrate | The Washington Times, September 2024 (with Keri D. Ingraham of Discovery Institute)
Live Music is Making a Comeback, and So is Bob Dylan | Mind Matters, August 2024
Finally Something Politicians Agree On: Phone-Free Schools | Mind Matters, August 2024
AI is Not Your Friend. Good Thing, Too | The American Spectator, August 2024.
Confessions of a Music User | Plough, August 2024
A Certain Ghost’s Long and Final Fall Back to Earth | The Ana, July 2024
We’re Missing the Plot When it Comes to AI | The American Spectator, July 2024
Critics of Lolita Need to Learn How to Read Fiction | The American Spectator, July 2024
Phone Bans Are Good. Now Bring Back the Books | RealClearEducation, July 2024
Gen Z Needs To Put The Phone Down And Go On A Date | The Daily Caller, June 2024
Margo’s World | Midsummer Dream House, Issue Two, June 2024
Gen Z Is In Big Trouble | The Daily Caller, May 2024
The Uniqueness of the Human Writer | Mind Matters, May 2024
The Beautiful Cross of Asher Lev | Ad Fontes, April 2024
Experiencing the Numinous | WORLD, March 2024
The Fisher’s Man | Midsummer Dream House, Issue One, February 2024
Alexandra | Midsummer Dream House, Issue One, February 2024
A Strange, Piercing Longing | WORLD, January 2024
This is My Religion: Why Art Fails as a Substitute for Faith | The Gospel Coalition, Sept. 2023
Tree Tipping | Front Porch Republic, April 2023
ChatGPT Versus the Human Voice in Literature | Salvo, March 2023
Meme-ing Ourselves to Death | The Gospel Coalition, September 2022
Shooting the Satyr | Dappled Things, Summer 2022
Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres and the Idolatry of Eros | The Gospel Coalition, April 2022
Solo Elk Hunt | Plough, February 2022
On the Schole of Faerie Tales | Breaking Ground, June 2021
The Reading Option | Dappled Things, October 2020
Our Social Dilemma | Salvo, October 2020
Loneliness at College | Plough, November 2019