Writing




"American Contrapasso" (Review of Randy Boyagoda's Dante's IndianaPlough

"Candles and Carnival Lights" (Review of Michael Farris Smith's Nick) America

"Something to Write Home About" (Review of Grace Olmstead's Uprooted) The Bulwark



"Breaking Bread" (Review of Alan Jacobs' Breaking Bread with the Dead), The American Purpose


"The Errors of Rationalism" (Review of Christopher Beha's The Index of Self-Destructive Acts), The American Interest

"What Lapsed Catholic Writers Can Teach Us About Our Faith", (Review of Nick Ripatrazone's Longing for an Absent God), America

The Limits of Decadence (Review of Ross Douthat's The Decadent Society), The American Interest

A Catholic Novel for a Post-Truth World (Review of Randy Boyagoda's Original Prin), The American Interest

Education and the Crisis of Christian Civilization (Review of Alan Jacobs' The Year of Our Lord 1943), Marginalia

Finding Faith and Losing Religion in Flyover Country (Review of Meghan O'Gieblyn's Interior States), The American Interest

Surviving Survivalism (Review of Tara Westover's Educated), Commonweal Magazine

Review of Alan Jacobs's The Year of Our Lord 1943, First Things

"A School of One" (Review of Susan Wise Bauer's Rethinking School), Plough Quarterly

"To Think or Not to Think" (Review of Alan Jacobs's How to Think), The American Interest

"Borne Back Into the Past" (Review of David S. Brown's Paradise Lost: a Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald), Commonweal Magazine

"Pedagogy of the Distracted" (Review of Nicholson Baker's Substitute), Commonweal Magazine

"St. Midas's Prep: What Catholic Schools Can Learn from Fitzgerald," Commonweal Magazine

Review of David Denby's Lit Up, America Magazine

"Catholic Novelist, Confused Apologist: William Giraldi and the Nature of Religious Fiction," Dappled Things

"There's Not an App for That," Aleteia

"Another Reason to Curl up with a Good Book," Aleteia

"Unplugged but Connected: The Role of Catholic Schools in the Information Age," America Magazine

"How to Think Like Huck Finn," Millennial Journal

"Beyond Textbooks: Awakening Students to the Transcendent," Millennial Journal

Review of Why We Walked Away, Crux (Boston Globe Catholic Website)