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The New Republic
- Imagining a Better Life After the Coronavirus, April 1, 2020
- How to Save Americans From the Hell of Work, March 4, 2019.
- Millennials Don’t Have a Monopoly on Burnout, January 10, 2019
- 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
- It’s Complicated (review of “The Problem with Everything” by Meghan Daum), December 27, 2019
- Meet the Twitter Account Promoting the Gospel, One Tweet at a Time, November 23, 2019
- Can Marco Rubio Help to Break the Partisan Divide Over the Dignity of Work? August 29, 2019
- Catholic Colleges Are Searching for New Homes in the Southwest. Can They Succeed? April 29, 2019
- Precision Instruments (review of “Interior States” by Meghan O’Gieblyn), January 25, 2019
- Purgatory is Other People on “The Good Place” and “Forever,” December 28, 2018
- Is Your Job Necessary? (review essay on working life), October 24, 2018
- On Pilgrimage in Texas, in Search of Light and Color (review essay on Ellsworth Kelly’s “Austin,” the Rothko Chapel, and the Chapel of Thanksgiving), July 9, 2018
- Here’s What Happened When NRA Members Encountered a Prayer Vigil Outside Their Convention, May 10, 2018
- 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
New York Times Magazine
- Letter of Recommendation: Cheap Sushi, December 17, 2019
Washington Post
- Clinton is Wrong. You Shouldn’t Have to Work to Have a Place in America, October 13, 2016.
Chronicle of Higher Education
- Try to Lower the Stakes of the Job-Interview Dinner, October 22, 2018
- 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
- Why Dallas Republicans Skipped an Interfaith Forum, October 16, 2018.
- The Bible Passage at the Root of the House’s Punitive Farm Bill, September 11, 2018
- “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
The Hedgehog Review
- Je Regrette Tout, Spring 2020
- When Work and Meaning Part Ways, Fall 2018
- All Work, No Ethic (blog), November 5, 2018
- Out of the Woods (review of “Henry David Thoreau: A Life,” by Laura Dassow Walls), Fall 2017
Commonweal
- Drinking Alone, July/August, 2020
- Taming the Demon: How Desert Monks Put Work in Its Place, February 8, 2019
- A Burnt-Out Case: Aquinas & the Way We Work Now, January 5, 2018
Notre Dame Magazine
- The Christmas Gift Unwrapped, Winter 2020
- Still in a Work Place, Spring 2018
- A Tale of Two Commencements, April 2, 2018
Plough Quarterly
- The Noonday Demon, October 9, 2019
Inside Higher Ed
- The Costs of a Calling, May 12, 2017
Liberal Education
- College Should Be an Intellectual Workout, Summer 2013
Wilson Quarterly
Stewardship (Luther Seminary)
- Sharing Bicycles, Sharing Waste, February 5, 2019
- What Good is Work? Part I, Part II, Part III, October 2016
Expositions
- Review of “Self and Soul” by Mark Edmundson, Spring 2016
The Green Room blog
- The Dignity of Work: A Surprising Point of Division, December 9, 2016
Vocation Matters blog
- Vocation and the Realities of Burnout, November 13, 2018
