@NationalAffairs senior associate editor, reader, writer. Email: [email protected]
Charlottesville, VA
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Bl. Franz Jägerstätter put it well: "Discipleship to Christ requires heroism." There is no quick fix to the crisis of men, but there is a path to long-term renewal: heroic discipleship lived in daily, hidden work. thedispatch.com/newsletter/d…
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From @thelampmagazine's excellent issue on the Seven Deadly Sins: "Artificial intelligence is the most slothful invention in human history." thelampmagazine.com/issues/i…
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Wise advice from @continetti that, yes, also helps my job security: "The best editors aren’t afraid to rein in a writer, but they are also confident enough to let him loose (on occasion)....And if you are a writer, never fear the editor’s pen." wsj.com/opinion/free-express…
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt...[on] if AI agents began to develop their own language and humans wouldn’t understand what they were doing. “That’s the point, you know what we should do? Pull the plug, literally unplug the computer.” wsj.com/opinion/the-sandbox-…
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Plato Had His Reasons for Banishing Homer. Christopher Nolan Does Too. aei.org/social-cultural-and-…
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Excellent and unnerving essay by @johnehrett in @Plough on the dangers of the post-religious, "biopolitical" right: "Any victory for 'conservatism' won through forfeiting the Christian ethic of active love will prove a pyrrhic one." plough.com/en/topics/justice…
Excellent piece by Rubin McClain in @Plough: "The way forward is to recover the virtues our culture mocks as weak, virtues that are, in fact, Christlike." plough.com/en/topics/life/th…
"[P]recision matters. When public figures speak carelessly about the Church’s teaching, they do not merely express a personal opinion — they create confusion, distort Catholic doctrine, and undermine serious efforts at Catholic-Jewish understanding." ewtnnews.com/world/us/member…
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The Legacy of Nicaea
Why orthodoxy is more challenging than heresy.
Ed Simon via @hedgehogreview hedgehogreview.com/web-featu…
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"[H]ow we understand the past shapes whether we believe the future can be built in common." @SamuelAbramsAEI @AEI aei.org/op-eds/the-past-isnt…
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.@DouthatNYT: "No less than for the Democrats, the big question facing Republicans is whether they really want to govern America — the actual country, the whole diverse and complicated shebang." nytimes.com/2025/11/04/opini…
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.@DouthatNYT: "[A] populist conservatism will never establish itself as a governing power in our society... if it can’t reassure Americans outside its most devoted base that they are seen and respected and understood." nytimes.com/2025/09/22/opini…
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"[T]here will be no lasting revival unless Christians are known not just for their strength or their belief but for their love." nytimes.com/2025/09/22/opini…
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.@DouthatNYT on why the ideological motivations of mass shooters are much stranger than right or left: nytimes.com/2025/08/30/opini…
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"[T]he dark spirit that inspires these crimes...gains a victory every time we respond by immediately blaming our political rivals." nytimes.com/2025/08/30/opini…
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"[W]hen it comes to the school success of Virginia’s kids, there is not so much a racial divide as there is a father divide." Excellent new report from @AEI's @BradWilcoxIFS, @aibm_org's @RichardvReeves, and others. aei.org/op-eds/the-father-di…
"Fathers are irreplaceable, and engaged fathers in particular can mean all the difference for our kids, minimizing the risk that our daughters end up depressed and our sons struggle in school." aei.org/op-eds/the-father-di…
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Delighted to publish this essay with @thedispatch and their Faith newsletter. Addressing the crisis of boys and men starts with identifying more positive role models, and religious institutions have an important part to play: thedispatch.com/newsletter/d…
Pope Francis often invoked St. Joseph, "the man who goes unnoticed, a daily, discreet and hidden presence … remind[ing] us that those who appear hidden or in the shadows can play an incomparable role in the history of salvation.” thedispatch.com/newsletter/d…
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.@DouthatNYT: "[Politically themed art] succeeds not through conversion but through unsettlement." nytimes.com/2025/05/13/opini…
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"He is alive and is with us always, shedding the tears of those who suffer and adding to the beauty of life through the small acts of love carried out by each of us." vatican.va/content/francesco…
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"Whatever drives the Church apart is an echo of this 'dismiss the crowds' impulse, and a reminder of the demonic tendency to divide....But Jesus is right: 'They need not go away.'" wordonfire.org/todays-reflec…
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"These services were not for individuals who were undocumented. These were for individuals who are legally here [who] did everything right in a very broken immigration system." catholicnewsagency.com/news/…
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A Future for the Family: A New Technology Agenda for the Right, @firstthingsmag: "To undermine the family is to undo the future; to strengthen the family is to fill the future with possibility, invention, and hope." firstthings.com/a-future-for…
