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The New Republic
- Please, Millennials, Don’t Destroy Us Just Yet, March 7, 2018
- The Year the Robots Came for Our Jobs, December 29, 2017
- Parenting is Not a “Job,” and Marriage is Not “Work,” August 9, 2017
- America Must Divorce Dignity from Work, March 28, 2017
- Don’t Hate Twitter Because of Trump, August 4, 2016
- Henry David Thoreau’s Radical Optimism, October 19, 2015
- America Wants You to Feel Ashamed About Procrastinating. Don’t, September 6, 2015
- I Had “The Least Meaningful Job in America” — and I Loved It, July 23, 2015
- Robots Might Save the Humanities, July 6, 2015
- Don’t Search for “Purpose.” You Will Fail, May 28, 2015
America
- Louis C.K. Has Confessed. Now It’s Time for Contrition. November 10, 2017
- The Rich We Will Always Have with Us (review essay on inequality), May 3, 2017
- Searching for George W. Bush in His Portraits of the Soldiers He Sent to War, March 3, 2017
- From Gown to Town (review of “There is Life After College” by Jeffrey Selingo), October 24, 2016
- Field of Vision (review of “Last Chance U” and “A Season with Florida State Football”), October 17, 2016
- Labor in Today’s Vineyard: Why We Need a New Theology of Work, September 12, 2016
- Alternate Reality (review of “The Man in the High Castle”), January 19, 2016
- Taking Sin Seriously (review of the comedy of Louis C.K.), August 6, 2015
Washington Post
- Clinton is Wrong. You Shouldn’t Have to Work to Have a Place in America, October 13, 2016.
Chronicle of Higher Education
- The 40-Year-Old Burnout, October 5, 2016
- Student Evaluations Aren’t Useless. They’re Just Poorly Used, May 7, 2014
- A Catholic Case Against MOOCs, September 16, 2013
- Parsing Academic Theology and Religious Studies (letter to the editor), September 7, 2009
- A Scholarly Book and a 4/4 Teaching Load, March 2, 2009
- How Dumb Do They Think We Are?, December 11, 2006
- Dispatches from the First Year, July 24, 2006
- The Subcategorical Imperative, April 17, 2006
- Yielding to Convention, January 24, 2006
- The Smell of Indoctrination in the Morning, October 17, 2005
- No Longer a Desperado, April 27, 2005
- At Your Leisure, March 23, 2005
- Rooting for the Competition, February 1, 2005
- The Goofy Job Search, November 3, 2004
Religion Dispatches
- “You’re F*cked”: How Pouncing on Mistakes Helps the Right Escape Moral Accountability, December 20, 2017
- The Trumpocalypse: One Year Down, 999 to Go, November 8, 2017
- Opting for Lucy Over Linus: Watching The Great Pumpkin in the Age of Trump, October 23, 2017
- Time to Reject Religious Conservatives’ Use of “We’re All Sinners” to Excuse Immoral Acts, October 3, 2017
- Douthat’s Wager: Go to Church, Even if You Don’t Believe, April 18, 2017
- Right-Wing Suspicion of Experts is Martin Luther’s Fault, January 10, 2017
- When Being “Christian” Means Supporting Trump: An Argument for Hiding Your Faith, October 19, 2016
Commonweal
- A Burnt-Out Case: Aquinas & the Way We Work Now, January 5, 2018
Notre Dame Magazine
- Still in a Work Place, Spring 2018
- A Tale of Two Commencements, April 2, 2018
The Hedgehog Review
- Out of the Woods (review of “Henry David Thoreau: A Life,” by Laura Dassow Walls), Fall 2017
Inside Higher Ed
- The Costs of a Calling, May 12, 2017
Liberal Education
- College Should Be an Intellectual Workout, Summer 2013
Stewardship (Luther Seminary)
Expositions
- Review of “Self and Soul” by Mark Edmundson, Spring 2016
