Essays and Commentary

Selected essays and commentary on political philosophy, liberty and virtue, Islam and the West, intellectual conservatism, religious freedom, and contemporary politics.

2026

Islam Without Submission

Cracks in Postmodernity · 8 July 2026 · Read the essay

Breaking Back into Reality

Postliberal Order · 22 June 2026 · Read the essay

Towards a Western Muslim Political Philosophy

Kasurian · 19 April 2026 · Read the essay

We Need a Politics Grounded in Human Nature to Heal Our Divisions

Renovatio · 1 April 2026 · Read the essay

Surveying the New Natural Law

Law & Liberty · 23 March 2026 · Read the essay

Is Liberalism Inherently Authoritarian?

With Andrew Koppelman and Philip Pilkington. Danube Institute · 6 March 2026 · Read the essay

No Compulsion in Islam

Law & Liberty · 5 February 2026 · Read the essay

2025

Rationalism in Conservative Politics

Public Discourse · 28 December 2025 · Read the essay

Mugged by Realism

Academic Questions · Winter 2025 · Read the essay

Americanist Islam: An Islamic Case for Religious Freedom

Cracks in Postmodernity · 22 November 2025 · Read the essay

Muslim Fusionism

Law & Liberty · 12 November 2025 · Read the essay

Western Muslims for Public Christianity

First Things · 18 August 2025 · Read the essay

A War for the Soul of Germany

Academic Questions · 3 July 2025 · Read the essay

Islam in Europe: Embracing the State

Academic Questions · 14 April 2025 · Read the essay

What Muslims Should Know About Intellectual Conservatism

Renovatio · 10 April 2025 · Read the essay

2024

The Rise of ‘Woke’: Is Kaufmann’s Account the Best?

Academic Questions · 12 December 2024 · Read the essay

How Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’ Threatens Our Freedoms

Spiked · 19 July 2024 · Read the essay

The Cancellation of Christians

Spiked · 18 March 2024 · Read the essay

Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’ Is a Threat to Religious Freedom

Spiked · 21 February 2024 · Read the essay

Earlier Writing

Experts, Know Your Place: Morality Isn’t Scientific

The Critic · 11 March 2021 · Read the essay

Why Did We All Copy China?

Spiked · 18 February 2021 · Read the essay

Why Woke Leftists Love the Lockdown

Spiked · 14 July 2020 · Read the essay

Why I Became Muslim

First Things · 1 May 2019 · Read the essay

The Closing of the Western Mind

The Imaginative Conservative · 19 January 2018 · Read the essay