Archive - Reactions

Contra French on Christianity's Decline

Has America become a more Christian society as Americans have become less Christian?

Jan 11, 2022

December 2021

The Other Person in the Illness

Motherhood and marriage in the shadow of a husband's strange disease.

Dec 17, 2021

Between Neuhaus and De Maistre

Some questions about the post-liberal right in theory versus practice.

Dec 15, 2021

Christopher Hitchens, Victim of Decadence?

What an appreciation of Hitchens says about the temptations of his times.

Dec 8, 2021

November 2021

Decadence is a Chronic Illness

On the affinities between my last two books.

Nov 17, 2021

October 2021

The Deep Places: A Preview

The preface to my new book.

Oct 26, 2021

Tony Soprano's Decadent Society

David Chase's prophetic vision and the question of when decadence becomes decline.

Oct 7, 2021

September 2021

Love and Death in Occupied France

The judgment and the sympathy of Un Village Français.

Sep 30, 2021

Is The Matrix Good?

Sep 17, 2021

Playing Those End of History Hits Again

Thoughts on Matthew Yglesias's decadence-mongering and the dangers of today.

Sep 15, 2021

Reading Stephen King in Maine

Notes on summer, horror, and late-career King.

Sep 7, 2021

August 2021

My Correct Views on The Last Jedi

Why Rian Johnson's Star Wars sequel stirs so much debate. (Because of decadence, of course.)

Aug 3, 2021

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