RELIGION, THEOLOGY, and Culture

• "The Problem with Letting Therapy-Speak Invade Everything" and more in The New York Times
• "Rational Magic" at The New Atlantis
• "What the Culture War Is Really About," "The Rise of Progressive Occultism" & "The Neo-Paganism of Jordan Peterson" as a contributing editor at  The American Interest
• "The Gospel According to Peter Thiel" at City Journal
• "For Marianne Williamson and Donald Trump, religion is all about themselves", "Our Civil Religion is Capitalism" and more at The Washington Post
• "Bad Traditionalism" at Commonweal
• "On Hope and Holy Fools" at The Hedgehog Review
• "Postliberal Epistemology" at Comment
• "How Books Sap the Soul and Poison Readers with Ideas" at Aeon
• "Apocalypse Whatever" and "Cult of One?"at Real Life
• "Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas: The Street Preachers of Sin City" at Hazlitt.
• "There's No Sharp Distinction Between Cults and Regular Religion" at Aeon
• "Study Theology: Even if You Don't Believe in God" at The Atlanti

SHORT FICTION and PERSONAL ESSAYS

• "I Know Thy Works" at Slate
• "I Have Seen the Future, Baby; It is Murder" in Granta
• "There Are Things Nobody Can Tell You About How to Live" at Catapult
• "Here Comes Your Ghost Again" in Vol. 1 Brooklyn
• "Dorian Gray is Having More Fun Than You" at Bookanista
• "Laura" at Somesuch Stories
• "Children Will Listen" at Amazon's Day One
• "Things I Learned About Finance Bros by (Briefly) Dating a Finance Bro" at The New Yorker's Daily Shouts
• "The Destroyer" at Tor.com
• "Methods of Divination" in Shimmer #19

​ TRAVEL and PLACE 

• "A Toast to Georgia", "People-Watching in Paris", "Gently Down the Stream" and more at National Geographic Traveler
• "Another Hundred People: the art of city walking" at Plough
• "An American in Iran" and "Dancing to the Music of Time" in The Economist's 1843 Magazine
• "Tbilisi: the Edge of the Real" in The Spectator. Winner of the 2012 Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize.
• "Italy's Most Beautifully Haunting City" in The Wall Street Journal