Stephen's Writings 2024

clippings from our curator

To celebrate God becoming a human, here’s another discount for annual subs.

yes, this is my daily diet

Here are some of the things I’ve written for other publications in this past year:

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My favs:

1. Not So Black and White: Ethnicity versus Identity Politics in Newark, American Affairs

2. Grilling Man at the End of History, Mere Orthodoxy

3. Against Colorblindness, Sublation

4. The History of Wokeness: On Musa al-Gharbi's 'We Have Never Been Woke', RealClear

5. The Limits of Liberation: On Manuel Betancourt's 'The Male Gazed', RealClear

6. The Impossible Is Indeed Possible: On Carlos Eire's 'They Flew: A History of the Impossible', RealClear

7. In Newark, a Progressivism That Works, Compact

8. The Shallowness of Celebrity Politics, Law & Liberty

9. Nicolette Polek Found God in a Dilapidated Opera House, Interview

10. When Closing a Very Small Campus Is a Very Big Deal, NYTimes

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Other good stuff:

Even in the Ironbound, Plough

The Fellini film that scandalized Catholic audiences—and the Jesuits that defended it, America Magazine

'Do the Right Thing' Revisited, RealClear

In Concert With the Transcendent: On the possibility of pop music transcendence, RealClear

The Metaphysical Promise of the Consumer Society, First Things

Blessed are the brats: Thérèse of Lisieux flips entitlement on its head, NCReporter

Benedictine spirituality is not about changing the world. At least, not on purpose, NCReporter

Beyond the Cult of Self-Reliant Bootstrapping, EuroCon

The secrets of familial suffering: Recovering from the burden of generational pain can be a private act, The Critic

Young adult children of immigrants seek identity over assimilation, NCReporter

Flushing Ayn Rand, Compact

A Union Win for Fordham’s Catholic Identity, Compact

The Labor Realism of Christian Smalls, Compact

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Podcast/event appearances:

Interview with Ras Baraka

Compact conversations on policing in Newark

Interintellect salon with Shadi Hamid, John Milbank, and William T. Cavanaugh

The Incarnation in an age of Simulation @ St. John’s Episcopal in Savannah

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Compact’s Substack:

A Marxist, a Showman, and a Hillbilly Walk Into a Bar…

The Olympics Exposes Our Impoverished Imagination

Tim Walz and Hegelian E-girls

Mass Producing the Narrative at the DNC...and beyond

On campus encampments and the non-traditional right

The Post-9/11 Vibe Shift

One Direction, and the Direction of Internet Discourse

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Stay tuned for the best of Cracks in PoMo this year.