Cultural Criticism
Review, When McKinsey Comes to Town, Current, November 2, 2023 https://currentpub.com/2023/11/02/review-suckers-for-ideals/
“The Power of Place: The Daytripper with Chet Gardner,” Front Porch Republic, October 2, 2023 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2023/10/the-power-of-place-the-daytripper-with-chet-gardner/
“An Empty Room of One’s Own,” Front Porch Republic, September 21, 2023 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2023/09/an-empty-room-of-ones-own/
“Living the Dream: Unicorn Town,” Front Porch Republic, July 6, 2023 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2023/07/living-the-dream-unicorn-town/
Review, Ken Burns’ Our America: A Photographic History, Current, May 29, 2023 https://currentpub.com/2023/05/09/review-so-many-angles/
“The Power of Place: Payphones,” Front Porch Republic, April 24, 2023 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2023/04/the-power-of-place-payphones/
“The Power of Place: South Side and Northern Exposure,” Front Porch Republic, April 12, 2023 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2023/04/the-power-of-place-northern-exposure-and-south-side/
“The Power of Community: Tracksmith,” Front Porch Republic, March 28, 2023 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2023/03/the-power-of-community-tracksmith/
“Postcards From the Edge: the State of Education in the State of Florida,” Front Porch Republic, March 7, 2023 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2023/03/postcards-from-the-edge-the-state-of-education-in-the-state-of-florida/
“Unfry Your Brain: Go to the Fronton,” Current, February 22, 2023 https://currentpub.com/2023/02/22/unfry-your-brain-go-to-the-fronton/
“The war in Ukraine and the struggle over cynicism,” Current, February 20, 2023 https://currentpub.com/2023/02/20/the-war-in-ukraine-and-the-struggle-over-cynicism/
“Who is America For? A Review of Cheap Land Colorado,” Front Porch Republic, February 20, 2023 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2023/02/who-is-america-for-a-review-of-cheap-land-colorado/
“The Power of Place: Wildsam Field Guides,” Front Porch Republic, February 8, 2023 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2023/02/the-power-of-place-wildsam-field-guides/
“The Power of Place: Huckberry’s Dirt,” Front Porch Republic, January 9, 2023 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2023/01/the-power-of-place-huckberrys-dirt/
“The Power of Place: TrueSouth,” Front Porch Republic, December 30, 2022 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2022/12/the-power-of-place-truesouth/
“The Burden of Youth,” Front Porch Republic, November 14, 2022
https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2022/11/the-burden-of-youth/
Review of Untrustworthy by Bonnie Kristian, Front Porch Republic, October 19, 2022
“The Queen and Conservatism,” Current, September 28, 2022
https://currentpub.com/2022/09/28/the-queen-and-conservatism/
“Help the World, Find a Hobby,” Current, August 24, 2022
https://currentpub.com/2022/08/24/help-the-world-find-a-hobby
“Hot Mediums, Hot Tempers,” Front Porch Republic, July 22, 2022
https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2022/07/hot-mediums-hot-tempers/
“‘Great Men’ and Great Expectations,” Front Porch Republic, May 27, 2022
https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2022/05/great-men-and-great-expectations/
“Consumer Capture,” Current, May 19, 2022, https://currentpub.com/2022/05/19/consumer-capture/
“Fear and Deconstruction,” Mere Orthodoxy, May 17, 2022, https://mereorthodoxy.com/fear-and-deconstruction/
“The Front Porch as a Way of Seeing: A Review of The Porch,” Front Porch Republic, April 27, 2022 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2022/04/the-front-porch-as-a-way-of-seeing-a-review-of-the-porch/
“The Aesthetic Experience and Education: Teaching between Schiller and School of Rock,” Christian Scholars Review Blog, April 25, 2022 https://christianscholars.com/guest-post-the-aesthetic-experience-and-education-teaching-between-schiller-and-school-of-rock/
“Better Drivers, Better World,” Current, March 2, 2022 https://currentpub.com/2022/03/02/better-drivers-better-world/
“Who Would Tell It To Them? Institutional Memory in a Transitory Age,” Christian Scholars Review Blog, February 4, 2022 https://christianscholars.com/guest-post-who-would-tell-it-to-them-institutional-memory-in-a-transitory-age/
“It’s Time to Celebrate Jury Duty,” Current, January 24, 2022 https://currentpub.com/2022/01/24/its-time-to-celebrate-jury-duty/
“Buddy from Belfast: Pondering How to Belong,” Front Porch Republic, December 22, 2021 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2021/12/buddy-from-belfast-pondering-how-to-belong/
“Memes Eat Brains,” December 1, 2021, Current, https://currentpub.com/2021/12/01/memes-eat-brains/
“Bring Back Cincinnatus,” October 25, 2021, Current, https://currentpub.com/2021/10/25/bring-back-cincinnatus/
“The Ivory Tower of the Imagination and Christian Alternatives,” October 19, 2021, Christian Scholars Review Blog, https://christianscholars.com/guest-post-the-ivory-tower-of-the-imagination-christian-alternatives/
“Muhammad Ali: Can the Greatest of All Time Speak to Our Time,” October 6, 2021, Front Porch Republic, https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2021/10/muhammad-ali-can-the-greatest-of-all-time-speak-to-our-time/
“Twenty Years Later,” September 10, 2021, Front Porch Republic, https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2021/09/twenty-years-later/
Book Review: Preachers n Sneakers, August 3, 2021, Mere Orthodoxy, https://mereorthodoxy.com/book-review-preachers-n-sneakers-by-ben-kirby/
“Of Monuments and Men,” July 8, 2021, Comment Magazine, https://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/of-monuments-and-men/
“The Creative Promise of Less-Sung Places,” May 31, 2021, Front Porch Republic, https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2021/05/the-creative-promise-of-less-sung-places/
“Hemingway, All Too Human,” April 19, 2021, Front Porch Republic, https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2021/04/hemingway-all-too-human/
“The Professor and the Madman: Cancel Culture, Consequences, and Restorative Justice,” March 25, 2021, Front Porch Republic, https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2021/03/the-professor-and-the-madman-cancel-culture-consequences-and-restorative-justice/
Book review, History and Eschatology by N.T. Wright, January 22, 2021, Mere Orthodoxy, https://mereorthodoxy.com/book-review-history-eschatology-n-t-wright/
“The Worst?” December 30, 2020, Front Porch Republic, https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2020/12/the-worst/
(Review) “More Than a Step on the Boss Man’s Ladder,” November 23, 2020, Front Porch Republic, https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2020/11/more-than-a-step-on-the-boss-mans-ladder/
(Review) “A Country Boy Can Thrive,” November 13, 2020, Front Porch Republic, https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2020/11/a-country-boy-can-thrive/
“The Power of Proximity,” October 28, 2020, Front Porch Republic, https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2020/10/the-power-of-proximity/
“Reading “In Praise of Folly” in 2020,” October 28, 2020, Mere Orthodoxy, https://mereorthodoxy.com/reading-praise-folly-2020/
“Travels with COVID,” July 28, 2020 Front Porch Republic, https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2020/07/travels-with-covid/
“Between Port Royal and Patagonia,” April 22, 2020 Front Porch Republic, https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2020/04/between-port-royal-and-patagonia/
“Turning to the Past to Help Us Through the Present,” April 20, 2020 Sojourners, https://sojo.net/articles/turning-past-help-us-through-present
“In Defense of Public Institutions,” February 16, 2020, History News Network https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174328
“It’s a Wonderful Film,” Front Porch Republic, December 23, 2019 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2019/12/its-a-wonderful-film/
“Reviews of The Man in the High Castle and the Misunderstanding of History,” History News Network, December 15, 2019 https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173851
“The Foreign Mystique,” Front Porch Republic, October 29, 2019
https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2019/10/the-foreign-mystique/
“How Evangelicals Fail Powerful People Like Trump,” Sojourners, October 11, 2019 https://sojo.net/articles/how-evangelicals-fail-powerful-people-trump
“Turning Heritage into History,” Front Porch Republic, September 20, 2019
https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2019/09/turning-heritage-into-history/
“Florida Man Turns Out to be a Good Neighbor,” Front Porch Republic, September 9, 2019 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2019/09/florida-man-turns-out-to-be-a-good-neighbor/
“What Will Happen if We Lose Christian Liberal Arts Colleges?” Sojourners, June 20, 2019
https://sojo.net/articles/what-will-happen-if-we-lose-christian-liberal-arts-colleges
“A Politics of Presence,” Front Porch Republic, June 5, 2019
https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2019/06/a-politics-of-presence/
“Notre Dame and the Need for the Past,” Front Porch Republic, April 23, 2019
https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2019/04/notre-dame-and-the-need-for-the-past/
“The Leased of These,” Front Porch Republic, April 19, 2019 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2019/04/the-leased-of-these/
“What Ruined Frederick Douglass as a Slave?” History News Network, July 1, 2018 https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169230
