» You want a statin with that?

Has the medical establishment lost its mind? A contribution to The American Interest Online.

» Glenn Beck's Rally about Nothing

An American Interest Online contribution about Glenn Beck, his big rally, and the Tea Party.

» Conserving the Constitution

A review of Defending the Republic by George W. Carey that ran in Young American Revolution.

» Bailout Blues

An argument against stimulus, bailouts, and monetary inflation that I wrote for Doublethink Online. This piece garnered links from the Ludwig von Mises Institute's Mises Economics Blog and the Heritage foundation's InsiderOnline.

» The Diet Wars (pdf)

This is a review of the controversial book Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes that I wrote for Doublethink Online. In the online version, for some reason, most of the paragraph breaks have been lost, so I made a PDF of the article and linked it above. The online version is available here.

» Willmoore Kendall and the Deliberate Sense of the Community (pdf)

This paper was published in the August 2007 issue of The Political Science Reviewer, an annual journal of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Willmoore Kendall was a controversial political theorist and a fixture of the 1950s conservative movement. The purpose of my artcle was to provide an overview of the arc of Kendall's thought and to summarize his most important works.

» Twelfth Night, Puritanism, and the English Reformation

This is a paper I wrote for a law school class on Shakespeare. Its purpose is to sketch out some of the historical background behind Twelfth Night. It's basically a short paper on Puritanism.