Essays

"Civilizations or Identities?" Law and Liberty, May 26, 2021.

"No Bad E-Words." Splice Today, February 8, 2021.

"Echo Chambers and Public Squares." Splice Today, January 4, 2021. 

"Sunny Side Up." Splice Today, August 27, 2020.

"Michael Oakeshott's Dialogic Imagination." Law and Liberty, August 3, 2020.

"The Futility of the Masked Life." Splice Today, July 24, 2020.

"Orson Welles: American Maverick." American Greatness, July 17, 2020.

"American Socialism and the Sovereign Self." Law and Liberty, May 13, 2020.

"Identity vs. Identity Politics. The American Mind, April 8, 2020.

"Forbidden Verses." Splice Today, February 24, 2020.

"Bosnian Melancholy." Splice Today, 14 February, 2020.

"Walker Percy's Great Truth." The New Criterion, January 28, 2020.

"Herzog, Holderlin, and the Chauvet Cave." Splice Today, January 17, 2020.

"Socialist Anesthetic." Splice Today, December 6, 2019.

"Gratitude in Dark Times." American Greatness, November 27, 2019.

"Detention, Socialist Style (or, How I Never Learned Math)." American Greatness, November 17, 2019.

"The Wars They Carry." American Greatness, November 10, 2019.

"Up from Globalism." American Greatness, October 26, 2019.

"Memento Mori: Rutger Hauer's Message in Blade Runner." American Greatness, September 8, 2019.

"Violence for Thee But not For Me." Law and Liberty, September 6, 2019.

"A World of Totalitarian Tolerance." Splice Today, June 27, 2019.

"My Own Private River." Splice Today, March 25, 2019.

"Marie Kondo's House of Happiness." Splice Today, March 12, 2019.

"Reflecting on the Craft of Writing." Splice Today, January 21, 2019.

"Choosing Gratitude." The American Mind, November 19, 2018.

"The Death of an Authentic Encounter." Law and Liberty, November 14, 2018.

"Bohemian Rhapsody, Part One." Splice Today, October 23, 2018.

"When Memory Speaks." Splice Today, September 25, 2018.

"Philosophy's Orphans." APA Blog, September 24, 2018.

"Bewitched, or How to Successfully Tune Out War." Splice Today, July 31, 2018.

"A Call to the Joy of Life: Why Beethoven's Ninth Matters to Me." The Imaginative Conservative, July 28, 2018.

"Learning for Life: Political Education According to Michael Oakeshott." Law and Liberty, July 26, 2018.

"After the Genocide." Splice Today, July 20, 2018.

"Saving the American Dream." American Greatness, July 15, 2018.

"David Lynch as a Guide to Mindfulness." Splice Today, July 2, 2018.

"Why Ernest Hemingway Doesn't Suck." Splice Today, June 22, 2018.

"Letters from My Father." Splice Today, June 4, 2018.

"The Age of Regression." Splice Today, May 25, 2018.

"Beyond Identity Politics." Splice Today, May 3, 2018. 

"Collectivism and Contradiction." New English Review (May 2018).

"Why David Bowie Doesn't Suck." Splice Today, April 5, 2018.

"The Denial of Being: Ideology as False Metaphysics." VoegelinView, February 16, 2018.

"Vaclav Havel's Politics of Encounter." The New Criterion, February 1, 2018.

"The Suspension of Judgement." Splice Today, February 1, 2018.

"A Faster Escape from Reality." Splice Today, January 22, 2018.

"Grandfather Frost." Splice Today, December 22, 2017.

"Freedom for One Opinion." Splice Today, December 1, 2017.

"A Case Against Globalism." American Greatness, November 30, 2017.

"Understanding Gratitude." Splice Today, November 22, 2017.

"The Devolution of Intellectual Discourse." Splice Today, November 14, 2017.

"Can a Conservative Be Progressive?" The Imaginative Conservative, November 6, 2017.

"How to be American." Splice Today, November 3, 2017.

"Politics of Journalistic Collectivism." Splice Today, October 17, 2017.

"Learning to Fly." Splice Today, October 5, 2017.

"A Defense of American Masculinity." Splice Today, October 2, 2017.

"An End to Dehumanization." Splice Today, September 19, 2017.

"The Uselessness of the Humanities." The Imaginative Conservative, September 12, 2017.

"Buckley and Me: an Immigrant's Journey into American Conservatism." National Review, July 6, 2017.