Alan Jacobs

Other Publications

• “On the Value of Thought Experiments,” The American Conservative, August 27, 2015
• “A Religious Liberty Thought Experiment,” The American Conservative, August 26, 2015
• “Human Life and Moral Intuitions,” The American Conservative, August 11, 2015
• “A Word to the ‘Deeply Troubled,’” The American Conservative, August 10, 2015
• “The Bought Grace of Life,” The American Conservative, August 7, 2015
• “Code Fetishists and Normolaters,” The American Conservative, July 29, 2015
• “Disciplinary Bulverism,” The American Conservative, July 22, 2015
• “The Value of Disagreement,” The American Conservative, July 9, 2015
• “How Sexy Was Kant?,” The American Conservative, July 7, 2015
• “The Six Axioms of Politico-Judicial Logic,” The American Conservative, June 30, 2015
• “Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd,” The American Conservative, June 26, 2015
• “How I Became a Soccer Fan,” The American Conservative, June 24, 2015
• “Life in the Garrison,” The American Conservative, June 10, 2015
• “In Praise of Private Colleges,” The American Conservative, June 9, 2015
• “Lost in the Cosmos,” Books & Culture, March/April 2015
• “79 Theses on Technology. For Disputation,” The Infernal Machine, March 27, 2015
• “On Not Defending the Humanities,” Snakes and Ladders, January 29, 2015
• “Kurzweilian Whiggery,” Snakes and Ladders, January 24, 2015
• “The View from the Glass Cage,” Books & Culture, January/February 2015
• “Assignment: Commentary and Anthology,” Snakes and Ladders, December 30, 2014
• “A Weird from Sturk to Finnic,” Books & Culture, July/August 2014
• “The Two Cultures, Then and Now,” Books & Culture, March/April 2014
• “JSTOR's Hidden Power,” The Atlantic, Deceber 10, 2013
• “No Apologies,” Books & Culture, November/December 2013
• “The Uses of Ignorance,” Books & Culture, November 2013
• “The Mystery of Sarah Losh,” Books & Culture, July/August 2013
• “Fathers and Daughters,” Books & Culture, May/June 2013
• “Lena Dunham’s Inviolable Self,” First Things, May 2013
• “Just-So Stories,” Books & Culture, January/February 2013
• “The Man Who Delivered the Computer,” Books & Culture, September/October 2012
• “So Blessed a Liturgy,” Books & Culture, March/April 2012
• “The Ghost Writer,” Books & Culture, November/December 2011
• “A Prophet Wrongly Honored,” First Things, June/July 2011
• “Overloaded,” Books & Culture, May/June 2011
• “The Poet’s Nature Subdued,” Books & Culture, March/April 2011
• “Recommended Reading,” Books & Culture, January/February 2011
• “Rethinking Innovation,” Big Questions Online, December 21, 2010
• “A Not-So-Distant Mirror,” Big Questions Online, November 18, 2010
• “Edupunk’d,” Big Questions Online, October 19, 2010
• “The Idea of the Book,” Books & Culture, November/December 2010
• “The Online State of Nature,” Big Questions Online, August 30, 2010
• “Book Cultures,” Books & Culture, July/August 2010
• “Man of Sorrows,” Books & Culture, Jan-Feb 2010
• “Beyond the Wild Wood,” First Things, October 2009
• “Choose Your Own Adventure,” Books & Culture, September/October 2009
• “Pedantic Park,” First Things, August/September 2009
• “Blessed Are the Green of Heart,” First Things, May 2009
• “Gardening and Governing,” Books & Culture, April 3, 2009
• “The Way, the Truth, and Philip Jenkins,” First Things, March 2009
• “A Religion for Atheists,” First Things, February 2009
• “The Poet’s Prose,” Books & Culture, Jan.-Feb. 2009
• “Do-It-Yourself Tradition,” First Things, January 2009
• “A Classic Case,” First Things, November 2008
• “Reading, Writing, and Reformation,” First Things, October 2008
• “A Ne’er-Do-Well Returns,” Wall Street Journal, September 20, 2008
• “In the Garden,” Cabinet, Fall 2008
• “Amis Amiss,” First Things, June/July 2008
• “The Life of Trees,” Books & Culture, July 1, 2008
• “Too Much Faith in Faith,” Wall Street Journal, June 6, 2008
• “Come On, You Call This a Manifesto?,” Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2008
• “A Commonplace Book,” First Things, May 2008
• “The Conscience of an Anglican,” Books & Culture, December 24, 2007
• “Making Trade-Offs,” Books & Culture, December 3, 2007
• “On the Recent Publication of Kahlil Gibran’s Collected Works,” First Things, November 2007
• “Sentences,” Books & Culture, October 8, 2007
• “Reading the Signs,” First Things, October 2007
• “The Future of Atheism,” Books & Culture, September 10, 2007
• “The Youngest Brother’s Tale,” Books & Culture, September 1, 2007
• “Overloaded,” Books & Culture, August 13, 2007
• “Amplifying Charity,” Books & Culture, July 9, 2007
• “Waiting for Harry,” Books & Culture, June 25, 2007
• “Remembering Auden,” Books & Culture, June 4, 2007
• “Jane Kramer and the Feast of St. Martin Elginbrod,” Books & Culture, May 8, 2007
• “Serendipity,” Books & Culture, April 2, 2007
• “Blessedly Unnecessary,” Books & Culture, March 5, 2007
• “How to Read,” Books & Culture, March 1, 2007
• “Some Fanged Enemy of Christendom,” Books & Culture, February 12, 2007
• “The Know-Nothing Party,” Books & Culture, February 5, 2007
• “In Search of Eden,” First Things, February 2007
• “The Politics of Long Joy,” Books & Culture, January 12, 2007
• “Graphic Violence,” Books & Culture, December 11, 2006
• “Code Breakers,” First Things, August/September 2006
• “Goodbye, Blog,” Books & Culture, May 1, 2006
• “To Be a Christian College,” First Things, April 2006
• “Choose Life,” Books & Culture, March 1, 2006
• “Bran Flakes and Harmless Drudges,” Books & Culture, January 1, 2006
• “The professor, the Christina, and the storyteller,” The Boston Globe, December 4, 2005
• “Opportunity Costs,” Books & Culture, November 1, 2005
• “City poet,” The Boston Globe, September 25, 2005
• “Robert Alter’s Fidelity,” First Things, August/September 2005
• “The Lord of Limit,” Books & Culture, May 1, 2004
• “A Bible for Everyone,” First Things, December 2003
• “Whose Natural Theology?,” Books & Culture, November 1, 2003
• “What Narrative Theology Forgot,” First Things, August/September 2003
• “Leon Kass and the Genesis of Wisdom,” First Things, June/July 2003
• “The Re-Invention of Love,” Books & Culture, March 1, 2003
• “The Virtues of Resistance,” Books & Culture, September 1, 2002
• “Life Among the Cyber-Amish,” Books & Culture, July 1, 2002
• “Computer Control,” Books & Culture, May 1, 2002
• “Shame the Devil,” Books & Culture, March 1, 2002
• “C. S. Lewis Then and Now,” First Things, March 2002
• “Wole Soyinka’s Outrage,” Books & Culture, November 1, 2001
• “Auden and the Limits of Poetry,” First Things, August/September 2001
• “Narrating Ethics,” First Things, May 2001
• “In Brief,” Books & Culture, January 1, 2001
• “The Only Honest Man,” Books & Culture, May 1, 2000
• “George Eliot: Good without God,” First Things, April 2000
• “Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia (1941),” First Things, March 2000
• “Review Essay: Preachers without Poetry,” First Things, August/September 1999
• “The Liberal Neoplantonist?,” First Things, January 1999
• “The Editor and the Exile,” Books & Culture, November 1, 1998
• “It Ain’t Me, Babe,” Books & Culture, May 1, 1998
• “Revenge of the Scroll,” Books & Culture, January 1, 1998
• “Only Connect,” First Things, November 1997
• “The Bible Tells Me So,” First Things, October 1997
• “A Bible Fit for Children,” First Things, May 1997
• “In on the Kill,” First Things, February 1997
• “Flags, Tradition, and Charity,” First Things, November 1996
• “Martha Nussbaum, Poets’ Defender,” First Things, October 1996
• “Dowsing in Scripture,” First Things, October 1995
• “Go(o)d in Iris Murdoch,” First Things, February 1995
• “Signs and Wonders,” First Things, December 1993
• “Life’s Value,” First Things, August/September 1993
• “To Read and to Live,” First Things, June/July 1993
• “Friendship and Its Discontents,” First Things, December 1992
• “Suya Wars,” First Things, May 1992
• “Salman Rushdie Gets Religion,” First Things, January 1992
• “Aristocrats at Bay,” First Things, August/September 1991
• “David Byrne and the Curse of ‘Lifestyle,’” First Things, January 1991"]