Cracks in Pomo: The Archive

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By publication (updated December 2023):

New York Times, Newsweek, NY Daily News, Nylon, Daily Beast, COMPACT Magazine, UnHerd, America Magazine, American Affairs, Sublation, Hedgehog Review, City Journal, Tablet, First Things, American Conservative, The Spectator World, RealClear, Return, The Spectator Australia, The Critic, National Catholic Reporter, Catholic World Report, The American Spectator, The Plough, The Federalist, National Catholic Register, The European Conservative, Ethika Politika, Mere Orthodoxy, The American Mind, Human Events, Grotto Network, American Sun, Our Sunday Visitor, Church Life Journal, Millennial Journal, Aleteia, Faithfully Magazine, The Catholic Worker, Scala Foundation blog, Front Porch Republic, Boston Pilot, Where Peter Is, Homiletic and Pastoral Review, Hispanic Theological Institute, Rehumanize International

The Substack Archive

Literary publications: American Vulgaria, iO Literary Journal, Convivium Journal, Soft Union, Countere

Academic publications:

"Bad Bunny's 'Nueva Religion' as Postmodern Reimagining of the Religious/Secular Paradigm," chapter to be published in "The Bad Bunny Enigma," a forthcoming collection of scholarly essays on the music of Bad Bunny, Lexington Books

“La centralità del desiderio nell’approccio di Luigi Giussani alla morale cristiana”, chapter published in the anthology “Il Cristianesimo Come Avvenimento: Saggi sul pensiero teologico di Luigi Giussani,” BUR Rizzoli

"Ascetics in the City," essay published in the peer reviewed journal American Benedictine Review

By title (updated September 2023):

Barbie Boys in a Gender Confused World—Newsweek

Love, Sex and Dorothy Day—America Magazine

Be Ethnic!: Arturo Schomburg, Juan de Pareja, and the need for a rooted identity—The American Spectator

An Antidote to our Disenchanted Age (review of Joseph Epstein’s “The Novel: Who Needs It?”)—RealClear

Don't skip to Catholicism's answers: First teach youth to ask philosophical questions—National Catholic Reporter 2/7/23

Harpers and LARPers: The decline of civil discourse and the death of nuance – The American Sun, 2/6/23

The case for bad Catholics—The Spectator Australia, 1/14/23

The Postmodern Pope—The Hedgehog Review, 1/17/23

The Myth of a Good Divorce—Plough Quarterly, 1/23/23

The attraction of Catholic traditionalism: From the fringes to the spotlight – Catholic World Report, 10/27/22

The White Lotus Is Surprisingly, Subtly Countercultural: Camille Paglia and the gender dynamics of the HBO series - The American Spectator

There’s Something Queer About Andrew Tate - The American Spectator

A camp icon: the paradoxes of Trump’s truth-telling | Stephen G. Adubato | The Critic Magazine

As Kids Dabble In Witchcraft, Neutrality Toward The Occult Isn't Enough—The Federalist, 2/20/23

‘Decadent’ Young People See Beauty in Catholic Tradition — Will Truth and Goodness Follow? — National Catholic Register, 10/22/22

The Wonderful Life - The American Mind, 12/22/22

Unicorn Frappuccino Instagram Barbie— The Critic Magazine, 10/29/22

A failed Oscar Wilde: This Rise and Fall of Milo Yiannopoulos—The Critic Magazine, 12/26/22

World Cup LARPing: Watching soccer as anthropological research—Human Events, 12/29/22

Reality Check: Review of Sean Thor Conroe's Fuccboi—City Journal, 12/27/22

Bros-The Spectator Australia, 10/13/22

The 'Body Positivity' Movement Is At Odds With Human Nature — The Federalist, 10/25/22

Looking for advice on masculinity? Try St. Joseph rather than Jordan Peterson- National Catholic Reporter, 10/11/22

Remembering the Particular: Remembering both Indigenous People’s Day and Columbus Day is an opportunity to recover a true sense of diversity. - The American Conservative, 10/10/22

What Mariah Carey’s ‘Butterfly’ has to say to children of divorce — America Magazine, 10/28/22

Within the Hollow Crown - The American Mind, 10/19/22

Confessions of a “Weird Catholic”-National Catholic Reporter, 6/5/20

Were some saints mentally ill, holy, or both?-National Catholic Reporter, 4/30/21

The Cognitive Dissonance of Rainbow Capitalism-Catholic World Report, 6/25/21

Andrea Long Chu’s Females Subverts Subversiveness-Catholic World Report, 9/16/20

Bad Bunny is a spiritual guide for our postmodern times-America Magazine, 8/25/22

Camille Paglia’s Second Wave-The American Conservative, 8/5/22

Do you think everyone at Latin Mass is an Ideologue? You might be wrong-National Catholic Reporter, 12/8/21

The devotional Catholicism behind Andy Warhol’s postmodern art-American Magazine, 1/7/22

Red Scare podcast and Postmodern Politics-The American Conservative, 1/29/22

Colonialism, globalism, and inculturation in Beyoncé’s Black is King-Catholic World Report, 10/6/20

Cultural Decay vs. Appropriation vs. Rosalia-The Iffy, 7/3/22

J. Cole’s “4 Your Eyez Only” Gives Hope for Change After Elections-Mere Orthodoxy, 10/21/20

Reggaeton can reveal God to us–if we’re listening carefully-America Magazine, 12/11/20

The Magic Hides the Disenchantment: Harry Potter and the Triumph of Neoliberalism-The American Conservative, 4/13/22

Netflix’s Sintonia and the Afrodiasporic Roots of Brazilian Funk-National Catholic Reporter, 4/16/22

Raw, brilliant and prophetic: Lauryn Hill’s MTV Unplugged concert 20 years later-America Magazine, 6/17/22

The Danger of Respectable Christianity-Mere Orthodoxy, 4/5/21

The Sacramental Love Songs of Bachata’s Romeo Santos-America Magazine, 5/14/21

My grandmother was many things, but sane wasn’t one of them-Grotto Network, 5/27/21

“Why not try life one more time?”: Living in Quarantine with James Baldwin-iO Literary Journal, 2/21 (page 71)

How secular humanism is ruining drag-The Spectator World, 8/29/22

A collection of my writings on music featured on the Hispanic Theological Institute’s website, 11/14/22

Netflix's 'Elite' Falls Into Moralizing Progressive Tropes in Its Sixth Season-Human Events, 12/5/22

Wrapped Up in Music and Myself - The American Conservative, 12/10/22

A Revolutionary Attraction -Homiletic and Pastoral Review, 6/30/16

Answering Questions that Matter -Church Life Journal, 9/14/16

St. Agatha and the subversiveness of the Roman virgin martyrs – Catholic World Report, 2/5/23

Toward a Monastic Notion of the Common Good -Church Life Journal, 1/16/17

Rediscovering Our Roots, Moving Forward as One-Traces Online, 2/18/17

Breaking Free From Identity Politics-Ethika Politika, 5/11/17

Drop the “Savior Complex”-Aleteia, 6/5/17

Marching Toward a “New Feminism”-Homiletic and Pastoral Review, 6/12/17

The Ecumenism of Sacramentality-Ethika Politika, 6/20/17

The Body in Early Monasticism-Church Life Journal, 9/25/17

Questions in the Silence-Ethika Politika, 9/26/17

A Brief History of the Song of Songs-Homiletic and Pastoral Review, 7/12/18

Community and Experience in Education-Scala Foundation

Gold Within the Mud-Ethika Politika, 2/22/19

Piety at the Parish-Ethika Politika, 7/15/19

A New Feminism-First Things, 7/19/19

Understanding the Vatican’s Document on Gender and Education-Homiletic and Pastoral Review, 12/28/19

Pope Francis’ “Difference” Feminism in Querida Amazonia-Ethika Politika, 3/26/20

Teaching in the Midst of Crisis-Millennial Journal, 3/30/20

A Hidden Life-Ethika Politika, 5/7/20

Career Crisis in Quarantine: Facing the Millennial Drama with Christ-Millennial Journal, 5/11/20

Reading James Baldwin can help heal the wounds of racial division-America Magazine, 6/3/20

Five Years After Marriage Equality-Ethika Politika, 6/30/20

Can “Love Victor” Defy the Stereotypes of Growing up Gay?-America Magazine, 7/10/20

Artist Erin McAtee’s faith journey led to a place of encounter-National Catholic Reporter, 7/27/20

Getting Back to Our Bodies: Feminism, Ontology, and Metaphysics-Mere Orthodoxy, 7/30/20

The difficult path to understanding and ministering to trans youth-Catholic World Report, 8/7/20

What does it mean to have real peace during the Coronavirus?-Faithfully Magazine, 8/11/20

Seeing Beauty in Poverty: An Artist’s Gaze into the Human Experience-Edge of Faith Magazine, 8/11/20

James Baldwin, blindness, and Hagia Sophia-National Catholic Reporter, 9/16/20

“We are seduced by temporal power”: Gloria Purvis on racism, pro-life politics, and the devil-America Magazine, 9/23/20

Why We are Trying to Remember a Painful Past-Grotto Network, 10/4/20

The Sinister Agenda Behind “The Economy”: A review of We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power-Front Porch Republic, 10/14/20

On the history and significance of third parties in the US-Catholic World Report, 10/19/20

What do Catholics say about the third-party presidential candidates?-National Catholic Reporter, 10/26/20

Looking at America’s Wounds Through James Baldwin’s Eyes-Faithfully Magazine, 11/3/20

Christ the Foolish King-Catholic World Report, 11/20/20

How a life of complaining can morph into Thanksgiving-Our Sunday Visitor, 11/23/20

Lady Bird and the Buffered Self-Mere Orthodoxy, 11/30/20

Unmasking the Patriarchal Axe that Split the Women’s Movement-Rehumanize International, 12/1/20

Author’s personal witness against the American dream is her call to radical neighborliness-National Catholic Reporter, 12/12/20

John of the Cross, Romeo Santos, and Awakening the Heart’s Desire-Millennial Journal, 12/14/20

J. Cole’s ‘Javari’, the Cross, and the Lynching Tree-Faithfully Magazine, 12/15/20

Best Books That I Read in 2020-Catholic World Report, 12/16/20

Keep Christ in Christmas? Try Seeking Christ in Christmas-Our Sunday Visitor, 12/18/20

A Shared Bloodline of Martyrdom-Ethika Politika, 1/4/21

Heeding Obianuju Ekeocha’s Warning About Western Elitism-Catholic World Report, 1/5/21

Ariana Grande Explores the Existential Highs and Lows of Being a Millennial in ‘positions’-Millennial Journal, 1/14/21

New speaker’s bureau highlights Catholics of color-National Catholic Reporter, 2/12/21

Standing for or standing with? Insights into the Dignity of Backrow America-Our Sunday Visitor, 3/11/21

Entering into friendship with Pope Francis-Where Peter is, 3/27/21

“The Relevance of the Stars” explores writings of Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete-Boston Pilot, 4/2/21

The St. Benedict’s Option-America Magazine, 8/20/21

Angie Cruz’s ‘Dominicana’ echoes the sacramental imagination of Catholicism-National Catholic Reporter, 9/4/21

Sons and Daughters: Netflix’s Baby and the West’s Crisis of Authority-Mere Orthodoxy, 10/28/21

‘Nobody flees from love’: Brazil’s alternative prisons offer a model of restorative justice-America Magazine, 11/17/21

Roma and Guadalupe-Catholic World Report, 12/12/21

Best books of 2021-Catholic World Report, 12/16/21

Pope Francis, Pets, and the Growing Culture of Narcissism-Catholic World Report, 1/17/22

Andy Warhol, St. John Paul II, and St. Sebastian-Catholic World Report, 2/2/22

Amy Winehouse and the Spirituality of a Restless Heart-America Magazine, 2/18/22

New York Encounter explores “urge for truth”-National Catholic Reporter, 2/25/22

Sodomy, Smoking, and the inversion of vices-Catholic World Report, 3/29/22

''Emo' reggaeton brings out longing and nostalgia in the musical genre-National Catholic Reporter, 7/2/22

Searching for the Solidarity after the “Great White Flight”-National Catholic Register, 8/3/22

Cross-Dressing Stars Like Bad Bunny Are Just Corporate Pawns-The Federalist, 9/27/22

'Ramy' explores the issues we argue over, and offers us perspective - National Catholic Reporter, 11/5/22

On the Need for an American 'Reenchantment' — Human Events, 2/14/23