Selected Prose
- “The Sensitive Young Man Question,” Et In Arcadia We Go, February 14, 2025 [republished by The Chained Muse on May 2, 2025]
- An essay concerning the question of sensitive young men and the answer of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- “The Fate of Cain,” Mere Orthodoxy, May 24, 2023
- An essay laying out my understanding of the character of postmodernity in answer to the ‘Strauss-Kojève Debate’
- “Bringing D’Annunzio to Dinner,” IM-1776 (The Art & Literature Foundation), May 2023
- An essay on my experience of translating Gabriele D’Annunzio
- “House for Sale,” The American Conservative, January 14, 2022
- A short review of Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci (2021)
- “Sleeping on Beauty,” IM-1776, December 2021
- A short essay rebutting the notion that artists ought to focus on things like ‘winning the culture war’/treat beauty as a means instead of a proper end
- “Schlumping Towards Altenburg, ” University Bookman, May 30, 2021
- A short essay about an obscure German novel of the First World War, the tragic life of its (till recently anonymous) author, and literary evanescence.
- “The Art of Madness and Mystery,” Church Life, March 2, 2020
- An essay in defense of contemporary art arguing, among other things, that it is to premodern art what Catholicism is to paganism by reason of a kindred birth and intertwined dialectical development.
- [Note a translation of this essay into Portuguese conducted by Grupo Mineiro de Literatura e Filosofia is available here: “A Arte da Loucura e do Mistério,” September 29, 2023 ]
- An essay in defense of contemporary art arguing, among other things, that it is to premodern art what Catholicism is to paganism by reason of a kindred birth and intertwined dialectical development.
- “Hägglund’s Defense of Faust,” Church Life, October 2019
- A review of and rebuttal to Martin Hägglund’s This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom.
- “Nationalism Qua Nationalism,” Jacobite, July 2019
- An essay dealing with Yoram Hazony’s theory of nationalism and its adherents (particularly Chris DeMuth).
- “A City on a Hill Needs Walls,” The American Conservative, January 24, 2019
- A short op-ed addressing an aspect of the wall controversy.
More pieces can be found via the following links: The American Conservative, National Review, The American Spectator, Splice Today, American Greatness, CapX (Centre for Policy Studies), Church Life (McGrath Institute), The Paddock Review, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Providence (The Institute on Religion and Democracy), Inside Sources, Economics 21 (The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research), New English Review, Jacobite, Las Vegas Sun, The North American Anglican, Real Clear Books & Culture, Real Clear Defense, Townhall, Real Clear Health, University Bookman, Yellow Hammer News, Mere Orthodoxy, San Diego Business Journal.*
* Note: Some older articles (2015-2018) are not necessarily representative of my current views.
Michael Shindler 