POLITICAL AND CULTURAL COMMENTARY

Wilson is the author of more than two hundred essays, articles, and reviews, in such journals and magazines as The Weekly Standard, Catholic World Report, Modern Age, Front Porch Republic, Law and Liberty​, The Catholic Thing, and ISI's First Principles.  Here is a selection of essays available on line, spanning the length of his career from early newspaper columns to recent magazine contributions, that touch on questions social, cultural, political, and religious.

The Post-Liberal Moment

Belloc's Humane Defense of Personhood and Property

In Defense of Jacques Maritain

On Being Catholic Modern

​Conservative Critics of the Bourgeoisie

"First to the Camps": An Interpretation of Adrian Vermeule

3 Ways the Liberal Arts Will Enrich Your Life

Reason and the Unfounded Constitution

Romney Ceded the Language of Citizenship

Liberal Catholic Critics of Paul Ryan Misread Catholic Social Thought

Contraception and Signs of Contradition, Part I and Part II

Catholic Universities, Protestant Ministries, and the Purpose of Education

The Long Road to Tyranny: Tocqueville and the End of Equality

Stoic Sex in Evanston

Stephen Hawking Proves the Existence of God

Fired for the Natural Law, Part I and Part II

The Eccentricity of the Saints

Of One Conservative Mind: T.S. Eliot and Russell Kirk

Is Burke Our Intellectual Father?

This is My Son

Empire of Addiction, Part I and Part II

Letter from a Traditional Conservative

David Brooks Does (in) Edmund Burke

Stanley Fish and the Lasting Professoriate

St. Augustine and the Meaning of Art

Reviving the Culture Wars, Again

The Life of Catholic Culture

The Death of Catholic Culture