Polarized Lenses: 9/11, Charlottesville, and How Right & Wrong Replaced Right & Left
"Driving this seeming need for equivocation is the replacement of right and wrong with notions of right and left. Moral responsibility...
Life, Politics, and the Resurrection
"It was the government — the Roman Empire, no less — who tried to free Jesus and it was the faith leaders who demanded his death. It was...
How Global Elites Forsake Their Countrymen
“Affluence detaches, power adds distance to experience. I don’t have it fully right in my mind but something big is happening here with...
Christians and Politics
"We could pass every pro-life law, every pro-family law, we could get rid of poverty tomorrow--and that wouldn't make America Christian....
Teaching the "Habits of Democracy"
“Politics isn’t dysfunction because of polarization, per se, so much as political detachment…'I think there’s some causation that...
I'm a liberal lawyer. Clerking for Scalia taught me how to think about the law.
"If there was a true surprise during my year clerking for Scalia, it was how little reference he made to political outcomes. What he...
Politics, Prosperity, and Philosophy
"No presidential candidate would call on doctors to practice medicine without biology or engineers to neglect calculus and physics. Nor...