Spiritual Reflections On The Square
On “First Things:” American Evangelical Christians seem, at times, to be afflicted by neurosis. But it may not be such…
Desire and Sublimation
Please see my opinion piece at Cardus, the parent of Comment Magazine. The article is about sex. Bryan WandelBryan Wandel…
Enjoy your Chicken, Mark Zuckerberg!
Mark Zuckerberg is killing animals. You may have seen the news: the Facebook founder’s new personal challenge for the year…
The Pillars of Hercules and the Fountain of Youth
Bryan Wandel A massive promontory juts out of Gibraltar, peering over the Straight that seeps into the Atlantic Ocean. This…
Lament from a Hometown Refugee
Bryan Wandel Dear Buffalo Sabres, Last night, you lost Game Seven to the Philadelphia Flyers. You were knocked out of…
Know What’s Right and Be True
Bryan Wandel Many debates come down to hard questions. We can shed some light on these presuppositions by understanding that…
Abortion and the Budget Crisis: Brainwaves for Everyone!
Bryan Wandel Democrats are offering this explanation of the budget impasse: the cuts have been agreed on, but the GOP…
Natural Law and Other Things Natural
Bryan Wandel Joe Carter is asking today, Why isn’t the Natural Law more persuasive? Why don’t more people submit to the…
Call Your Representative!
Bryan Wandel Hannah Arendt’s ideal political constitution was as follows: each town or small community elects representatives for local assemblies….
Political Speech Acts
Bryan Wandel A couple of months ago, Hadley Arkes and Matthew O’Brien had a debate in Public Discourse about what…
Do I See Providence?
Bryan Wandel I had a great group of friends in middle school. Does that give me warrant to say God…
Philip Rieff: The Mind of the Moralist
Bryan Wandel “That Philip Rieff was a great scourge is plain.” Moral Demand Systems and their Assailants Philip Rieff was…
Splendour in the Grass, Glory in the Flowers
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight To me did seem Apparelled…
Faith in Films: Why is it so unappealing?
Why does personal faith always look bad in films? Think about it: how many movie scenes have ever presented prayer,…
Reading Genesis in Second Corinthians, with Leon Kass
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig…
Politico’s Foucauldian trip
Roger Simon is the best political commentator at the best popular political newspaper. In a recent editorial for Politico, Simon had…
Knowing, Believing, Saying
Religion Dispatches reports on a Philosopher of Religion who has given up on philosophy of religion. “I just cannot take…
Noah’s Ark, Plus a Note on Church & Culture
Okay, so they’re building a life-size Noah’s ark in Kentucky. Answers in Genesis is funding it after the huge success…
Sin! Responsibility! Children!
Children have a sense of sin, acute in proportion to their sensitiveness. We are in danger of trusting too much…
For those of us who walk toward the blinding light
When Christopher Hitchens addressed the idea of Washington, DC, as being literary place, he displayed his usual impressive command of…