"The Thomistic Critique of Neo-Classical Theism," in Gaven Kerr, ed., Thomism Revisited (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
"Cosmological Arguments," in Timothy McGrew and Robert Stewart, eds., The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Apologetics (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming)
"Aristotle," in Alex E. Lessard and R. Jared Staudt, eds., The Adeodatus Handbook on Catholic Education and Culture, Volume 1 (Catholic University of America Press, forthcoming)
"From Justin Martyr to Alvin Plantinga and Back Again: Advice from the First Christian Philosopher," in Christopher Woznicki, ed., Advice to Christian Philosophers: Reflections on the Past and Future of Christian Philosophy (Hanover Press, 2024)
"Truth as a Transcendental" in Joshua P. Hochschild, Adam Wood, Turner C. Nevitt, and Gabor Borbely, eds., Metaphysics Through Semantics: The Philosophical Recovery of the Medieval Mind: Essays in Honor of Gyula Klima (Springer, 2023)
"Magisterium: The Teaching Authority of the Church" in Kevin Flannery, S.J., ed., The Faith Once for All Delivered: Doctrinal Authority in Catholic Theology (Emmaus Academic, 2023)
"What is Classical Theism?" in Jonathan Fuqua and Robert Koons, eds., Classical Theism: New Essays on the Metaphysics of God (Routledge, 2023)
"The Teleological Foundations of Human Rights," in Mark Retter, Tom Angier, and Iaian Benson, eds., The Cambridge Handbook of Natural Law and Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
"The Justice of Capital Punishment" in Matthew Altman, ed., The Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Punishment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
"Natural and Supernatural" in William Simpson, Robert Koons, and James Orr, eds., Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature (Routledge, 2022)
"The Metaphysical Foundations of Conservatism" in T. Allan Hillman and Tully Borland, eds., Dissident Philosophers: Voices Against the Political Current of the Academy (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)
"In Defense of Aristotle's Revenge: Reply to Koons and Barr" American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 94, no. 3 (2020)
"Natural Law Ethics and the Revival of Aristotelian Metaphysics" in Tom Angier, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
"Aquinas on the Human Soul" in Jonathan Loose, Angus Menuge, and J.P. Moreland, eds., The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)
"Aquinas and the Meaning of Life" in Stephen Leach and James Tartaglia, eds., The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers (Routledge, 2018)
"Freedom in the Scholastic Tradition" in David Schmidtz, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Freedom (Oxford University Press, 2018)
"Actuality, Potentiality, and Relativity's Block Universe" in William M. R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons, and Nicholas J. Teh, eds., Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science (Routledge, 2017)
"Aquinas and the Problem of Consciousness" in Stephen Leach and James Tartaglia, eds., Consciousness and the Great Philosophers (Routledge, 2017)
"From Aristotle to John Searle and Back Again: Formal Causes, Teleology, and Computation in Nature" Nova et Vetera (Spring 2016)
"Natural Theology, Revealed Theology, Liberal Theology" in R. R. Reno and Barbara McClay, eds., Religion and the Social Sciences (Cascade Books, 2015)
"The Scholastic Principle of Causality and the Rationalist Principle of Sufficient Reason" in Rafael Huntelmann and Johannes Hattler, eds., New Scholasticism Meets Analytic Philosophy (Editiones Scholasticae, 2014)
"Being, the Good, and the Guise of the Good" in Daniel D. Novotny and Lukas Novak, eds., Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics (Routledge, 2014)
"The New Atheists and the Cosmological Argument" Midwest Studies in Philosophy, vol. 37 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
"Between Aristotle and William Paley: Aquinas's Fifth Way" Nova et Vetera, vol. 11, no. 3 (2013)
"Motion in Aristotle, Newton, and Einstein" in Edward Feser, ed., Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
"The Role of Nature in Sexual Ethics" The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 1 (2013)
"Kripke, Ross, and the Immaterial Aspects of Thought" American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 87, no. 1 (2013)
"The Medieval Principle of Motion and the Modern Principle of Inertia" Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, Vol. 10 (2012)
"Why McGinn is a Pre-Theist" Theoretical and Applied Ethics, vol. 1, no. 4 (2012)
"Existential Inertia" in Lukas Novak, Daniel D. Novotny, Prokop Sousedik, and David Svoboda, eds., Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic (Ontos Verlag, 2012)
"Hayek, Popper, and the Causal Theory of the Mind" in Leslie Marsh, ed., Hayek in Mind: Hayek's Philosophical Psychology, special issue of Advances in Austrian Economics, Vol. 15 (2011)
"Existential Inertia and the Five Ways" American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 85, no. 2 (2011)
"On Aristotle, Aquinas, and Paley: A Reply to Marie George" Evangelical Philosophical Society Online Article Library (June 2011)
"Teleology: A Shopper's Guide" Philosophia Christi, vol. 12, no. 1 (2010)
"Reply to Walter Block" Journal of Libertarian Studies, vol. 22, no. 1 (2010)
"Classical Natural Law Theory, Property Rights, and Taxation" Social Philosophy and Policy, vol. 27, no. 1 (2010)
"Kekes on Religion and Evil" The Good Society, vol. 15, no. 2 (2006)
"Hayek the Cognitive Scientist and Philosopher of Mind" in Edward Feser, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Hayek (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
"Personal Identity and Self-Ownership" Social Philosophy and Policy, vol. 22, no. 2 (2005), reprinted in Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul, eds., Personal Identity (Cambridge University Press, 2005) [abstract]
"There is No Such Thing as an Unjust Initial Acquisition" Social Philosophy and Policy, vol. 22, no. 1 (2005), reprinted in Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul, eds., Natural Rights Liberalism from Locke to Nozick (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
"Self-Ownership, Abortion, and the Rights of Children" Journal of Libertarian Studies, vol. 18, no. 3 (2004)
"Hayek on Tradition" Journal of Libertarian Studies, vol. 17, no. 1 (2003)
"Taxation, Forced Labor, and Theft: Reply to Edwards" The Independent Review, vol. 6, no. 2 (2001)
"Qualia: Irreducibly Subjective But Not Intrinsic" Journal of Consciousness Studies, vol. 8, no. 8 (2001) [abstract]
"Taxation, Forced Labor, and Theft" The Independent Review, vol. 5, no. 2 (2000)
"Hayek, Social Justice, and the Market: Reply to Johnston" Critical Review, vol. 12, no. 3 (1998); reprinted in John C. Wood and Robert D. Wood, eds., Friedrich A. von Hayek: Critical Assessments of Contemporary Economists, Second series (Routledge, 2004) [abstract]
"Can Phenomenal Qualities Exist Unperceived?" Journal of Consciousness Studies, vol. 5, no. 4 (1998) [abstract]
"Hayek on Social Justice: Reply to Lukes and Johnston" Critical Review, vol. 11, no. 4 (1997); reprinted in John C. Wood and Robert D. Wood, eds., Friedrich A. von Hayek: Critical Assessments of Contemporary Economists, Second series (Routledge, 2004) [abstract]
"Swinburne's Tritheism" International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, vol. 42, no. 3 (1997)
"Has Trinitarianism Been Shown to Be Coherent?" Faith and Philosophy, vol. 14, no. 1 (1997)
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"The Magisterium" (contribution to a symposium on "The Future of the Catholic Church") First Things (August 2024)
"The Illusion of Artificial Intelligence" Evangelization and Culture 19 (Spring 2024)
"Refuting the Hyperpapalist Approach to the Death Penalty Debate," in Peter Kwasniewski, ed., Ultramontanism and Tradition: The Role of Papal Authority in the Catholic Faith (Os Justi Press, 2024)
Contribution to "On Hell: A Symposium" The Lamp (Assumption 2022)
"New Challenges to Natural Theology" in Matthew Nelson, ed., The New Apologetics (Word on Fire Institute, 2022)
"Pope Francis's Scarlet Letter" Catholic World Report (July 26, 2021) [Reprinted in Peter A. Kwasniewski, ed., From Benedict's Peace to Francis's War: Catholics Respond to the Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes on the Latin Mass (Angelico Press, 2021)]
"Taking Aquinas Seriously" First Things online edition (June 30, 2017)
"Why the Church Cannot Reverse Past Teaching on Capital Punishment" (with Joseph M. Bessette) Catholic World Report (July 17, 2016)
"Scientists Should Tell Lawrence Krauss to Shut Up Already" Public Discourse (September 28, 2015)
"In Defence of Scholasticism" The Venerabile (2015)
"Don't Let Rhetoric Overwhelm Reason: A Response to David Bentley Hart" Public Discourse (May 21, 2015)
"David Bentley Hart Jumps the Shark: Why Animals Don't Go to Heaven" Public Discourse (April 8, 2015)
"Why Is There Anything At All? It's Simple" First Things online edition (October 4, 2013)
"Fifty Shades of Nothing" First Things online edition (July 24, 2013)
"Sheer Hart Attack: Morality, Rationality, and Theology" Public Discourse (April 24, 2013)
"A Christian Hart, a Humean Head" First Things online edition (March 6, 2013)
"Rediscovering Human Beings" (Part 1, Part 2) The BioLogos Forum (August 17 - 18, 2012)
"Natural Law, Natural Rights, and Private Property" Online Library of Law and Liberty (March 18, 2012)
"Punishment, Proportionality, and the Death Penalty: A Reply to Chris Tollefsen" Public Discourse (October 13, 2011)
"In Defense of Capital Punishment" Public Discourse (September 29, 2011)
"Hayek and Scientism" The City (Spring 2010)
"The New Philistinism" The American (March 26, 2010)
"Recovering Sight after Scientism" Public Discourse (March 12, 2010)
"Blinded by Scientism" Public Discourse (March 9, 2010)
"'Too Christian' for Academia?" National Review Online (February 11, 2009)
"The Trouble with Conspiracy Theories" Counterknowledge.com (February 1, 2009)
"Are We All Lockeans Now?" TCS Daily (October 18, 2007)
"Hayek and Fusionism" TCS Daily (February 16, 2007)
"We the Sheeple? Why Conspiracy Theories Persist" TCS Daily (September 20, 2006); reprinted in shortened form as "Why Conspiracy Nuts Persist" Chicago Sun-Times (February 11, 2007)
"Godless Morality? Why Judeo-Christianity is Necessary for Human Rights" Crisis (July/August 2006)
"Contract Schmontract" TCS Daily (January 24, 2006)
"The Metaphysics of Conservatism" TCS Daily (January 12, 2006)
"On 'Legislating Morality': The Anti-Conservative Fallacy" Tech Central Station (May 31, 2005)
"Should Felons Vote?" City Journal (Spring 2005)
"How to Mix Religion and Politics" Tech Central Station (March 29, 2005)
"Alfred Kinsey: The American Lysenko" City Journal online edition (March 8, 2005)
"The Myth of Libertarian Neutrality" Tech Central Station (August 3, 2004)
"The Trouble With Libertarianism" Tech Central Station (July 20, 2004)
"Universities and the Left: A Reply to the Critics" Tech Central Station (February 20, 2004)
"The Opium of the Professors" Tech Central Station (February 16, 2004)
"Why Are Universities Dominated By the Left?" Tech Central Station (February 13, 2004)
"The Mustache on the Left" Tech Central Station (January 8, 2004)
"Does Islam Need a Luther or a Pope?" Tech Central Station (December 4, 2003)
"What Libertarianism Isn't" LewRockwell.com (December 22, 2001)
"Injustice Compounded: Reparations vs. Justice" Liberty (October 2001)
"Doing What Comes Naturally" LewRockwell.com (July 24, 2001)
"In Defense of Virtue" Liberty (June 2001)
"Reality Principles: An Interview with John R. Searle" (with Steven Postrel) Reason (February 2000)
"Descartes' Demon" Mindmares Magazine (Spring 1999)
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Review of Nature and Nature's God: A Philosophical and Scientific Defense of Aquinas's Unmoved Mover Argument by Daniel Shields, The Thomist (forthcoming)
"Hume's Trojan Horse" (Review of The Political Thought of David Hume by Aaron Alexander Zubia) Claremont Review of Books (Fall 2024)
"Boundaries of Belief" (Review of The Development of Dogma: A Systematic Account by Guy Mansini) First Things (May 2024)
"Jesuit Britain?" (Review of Projections of Spanish Jesuit Scholasticism on British Thought edited by Leopoldo J. Prieto Lopez and Jose Luis Cendejas Bueno) Religion and Liberty (Winter 2023)
"No King but Caesar?" (Review of All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism by Kevin Vallier) The Josias (December 8, 2023)
"Thomists in the Wilderness" (Review of The Thomistic Response to the Nouvelle Theologie, edited and translated by Jon Kirwan and Matthew K. Minerd) First Things (November 2023)
"Great Scot" (Review of Ordered by Love: An Introduction to John Duns Scotus by Thomas M. Ward) First Things (April 2023)
"The Wages of Gin" (Review of The Philosophy of Gin by Jane Peyton) The Lamp (Christmas 2022)
"Doubting Thomas" (Review of The Failure of Natural Theology by Jeffrey D. Johnson) First Things (March 2022)
"Keep It Simple" (Review of God Over All by William Lane Craig) First Things (April 2020)
"Soul Proprietor" (Review of Are We Bodies or Souls? by Richard Swinburne) First Things (February 2020)
"Burying the Undertakers" (Review of Logos: The Mystery of How We Make Sense of the World by Raymond Tallis) The Times Literary Supplement (July 23, 2019)
"Endarkenment Later" (Review of Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker) Claremont Review of Books (Summer 2018)
"One Long Circular Argument" (Review of From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett) Claremont Review of Books (Fall 2017)
Review of The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science by Armand Marie Leroi, in Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society (September 2017)
"A Mere -- Brilliant -- Sophist" (Review of Hume: An Intellectual Biography by James A. Harris) Claremont Review of Books (Summer 2016)
"I Speak, Therefore I Am" (Review of The Language Animal by Charles Taylor) National Review (May 23, 2016)
Review of The Experience of God by David Bentley Hart, in Pro Ecclesia (Winter 2016)
Review of Goodness, God, and Evil by David Alexander, in Ratio (March 2016)
"Omnibus of Fallacies" (Review of Faith versus Fact by Jerry Coyne) First Things (February 2016)
"Looking for Meaning in All the Wrong Places" (Review of The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson and The Soul of the World by Roger Scruton) Claremont Review of Books (Spring 2015)
"Freedom From Choice?" (Review of Free: Why Science Hasn't Disproved Free Will by Alfred R. Mele) City Journal online edition (April 21, 2015)
Review of Later Medieval Metaphysics: Ontology, Language, and Logic, edited by Charles Bolyard and Rondo Keele, in Metaphysica (May 2015)
Review of Philosophy of Mind: A Comprehensive Introduction by William Jaworski American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (Summer 2014)
"Perception is Everything" (Review of The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters by Anthony Pagden) Online Library of Law and Liberty (June 24, 2014)
"Silence Speaks" (Review of The Silence of Animals by John Gray) Claremont Review of Books (Spring 2014)
"Law, Naturally" (Review of Conscience and Its Enemies by Robert P. George) National Review (August 5, 2013)
"Kurzweil's Phantasms" (Review of How to Create a Mind by Ray Kurzweil) First Things (April 2013)
"Conflict Resolution" (Review of Where the Conflict Really Lies by Alvin Plantinga) First Things (December 2012)
"The Necessity of Freedom" (Review of Who's In Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain by Michael Gazzaniga) Claremont Review of Books (Fall 2012)
"Aristotle, Call Your Office" (Review of Mind and Cosmos by Thomas Nagel) First Things online edition (October 18, 2012)
"Not Understanding Nothing" (Review of A Universe from Nothing by Lawrence Krauss) First Things (June/July 2012)
"Science and Scientism" (Review of On Being by Peter Atkins and The Tyranny of Science by Paul Feyerabend) Claremont Review of Books (Winter 2011/12)
Review of Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice by Tom G. Palmer Reason Papers (Fall 2011)
"Scientia ad Absurdum" (Review of The Atheist's Guide to Reality by Alex Rosenberg) First Things (November 2011)
"Ancient Destinations, Modern Journeys" (Review of Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche by James Miller) First Things (June/July 2011)
"Mad Scientists" (Review of The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow) National Review (November 29, 2010)
Review of Real Essentialism by David S. Oderberg Faith and Philosophy (October 2010)
"Twilight of the Mad Men" (Review of 1959: The Year Everything Changed by Fred Kaplan) City Journal online edition (January 22, 2010)
Review of The Theological Origins of Modernity by Michael Allen Gillespie Review of Metaphysics (December 2009)
"Purely Academic" (Review of Save the World on Your Own Time by Stanley Fish) City Journal online edition (January 23, 2009)
"Not so Bright" (Review of Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett) The Latin Mass (Summer 2007)
"St. John of Harvard Yard" (Review of Illiberal Justice: John Rawls vs. the American Political Tradition by David Lewis Schaefer) National Review (March 5, 2007)
"Mind over Matter" (Review of An Argument for Mind by Jerome Kagan) National Review (September 11, 2006)
"Leo Strauss 101" (Review of Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism by Steven B. Smith) National Review (May 22, 2006)
"We Are the World" (Review of Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers by Kwame Anthony Appiah) National Review (March 13, 2006)
Review of The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. New Oxford Review (July/August 2005)
"An Ambiguous Conservative" (Review of An Imaginative Whig: Reassessing the Life and Thought of Edmund Burke by Ian Crowe) The American Conservative (May 9, 2005)
"Liberal Tribalism" (Review of Identity in Democracy by Amy Gutmann) National Review (April 25, 2005)
Review of Heaven: The Logic of Eternal Joy by Jerry L. Walls New Oxford Review (January 2005)
"Smart Asses" (Review of Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas by Daniel J. Flynn) The American Conservative (October 25, 2004)
"Style, Not Substance" (Review of Selling the Free Market: The Rhetoric of Economic Correctness by James Arnt Aune) Liberty (August 2001)
"Liberty, Tradition, and Morality" (Review of Moral Matters, Second edition by Jan Narveson) Liberty (April 2001)
"Catacomb Culture" (Review of An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture by Roger Scruton) National Review Online (July 15, 2000)
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Articles in encyclopedias etc.
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"Natural Law Theory" Dictionary of Christianity and Science (Zondervan, 2017)
"Religion and Superstition" in Graham Oppy, ed., The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion (Routledge, 2015)
"The Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Rights" in Thomas Cushman, ed., The Routledge International Handbook of Human Rights (Routledge, 2011)
Articles on "Teleology," "Cosmology," and "Soul" for George Kurian, ed., The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization (Blackwell, 2011)
"The Conservative Critique of Libertarianism" in Ronald Hamowy, ed., The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism (Sage Publications, 2008)
"Robert Nozick" Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2003)
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