- Station to Station: The Origins of David Bowie's Individualism (Cosmos + Taxis, Jan 2026)
- Frank S. Meyer Was a Political Paradox (The Spectator World, Sep 9, 2025)
- Thayer Sarrano: Bells (Slush Fund Recordings, Press Release, April 2025)
- How Norman Mailer Changed the Face of Biography (The Spectator World, Dec 26, 2024)
- Irregular Beats: The Surprising Politics of Kerouac, Burroughs, and Ginsberg (Merion West, April 30, 2024)
- Ray Bradbury, Sci-Fi Traditionalist (Modern Age, March 21, 2024)
- Listening to 1984 (series) (Substack, 2024)
- Holding out for the Roses: The Story of Dayroom (Substack, Dec 18, 2023)
- George Harrison at Eighty (The Spectator World, Oct 20, 2023)
- Rattled by the Loud Bangs (Essay in Hazy Parade: The Approximated Lyrics of Alice Street, September, 2023)
- City of Desperation (National Review, August 14, 2023)
- Dayroom: Contagious (Slush Fund Recordings, Press Release, July 2023)
- The Hypnogogue: The Church's Ghost in the Machine (Generation Riff, April 7, 2023)
- Mailer's Last Days? (National Review, January 25, 2023)
- Why Do Soldiers Miss War? (Front Porch Republic, August 14, 2020)
- Hunky Dory: Stardust Passing in the Night (Splice Today, May 5, 2020)
- Faster: An Exhilarating Tale of European Auto Racing on the Eve of World War II (National Review, April 11, 2020)
- Guardini: How a 20th century theologian became a quiet prophet for our distracted age (America, November 1, 2019)
- The Turbulent Life of the Velvet Underground's Lou Reed (National Review, September 26, 2019)
- Hope Beyond Technique: On Jaques Ellul (Modern Age, September 23, 2019)
- Begin the Begin: Book Excerpt (Flavorwire, August 14, 2019)
- Legendary R.E.M. Performances Captured Before They Were Famous, 1981 (With a DM Exclusive) (Dangerous Minds, March 21, 2019)
- Britons at War (August 2018, Chronicles)
- Music Too: Anything for a Hit (National Review, October 25, 2018)
- Union Jack: Bridge Across the Atlantic (National Review, August 14, 2017)
- Bob Dylan: The Lyricist (Front Porch Republic, December 29, 2016)
- ‘We Can Be Heroes’: 15 David Bowie Songs of Individualism (The Federalist, July 3, 2016)
- Working Man's Bard: Born to Run (National Review, December 31, 2016)
- Mystery Man: The Political World of Bob Dylan (National Review, December 31, 2015)
- Star Wars, George Lucas, and the Pitfalls of Auteur Theory (The American Culture, January 23, 2015)
- How Pop Made a Revolution (The American Conservative, Jan/Feb, 2015)
- Jack Carter Returns (The American Culture, September 29, 2014)
- Just the Facts: Bill Steigerwald Exposes a Great Writer's "Literary Fraud" in Dogging Steinbeck (The Daily Caller, September 3, 2014)
- Broken Bells Inside Out (Blurt Online, August 7, 2014)
- Mapping a Melancholy Soul: A Review of Liel Leibovitz's A Broken Hallelujah: Rock 'n' Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen (Front Porch Republic, May 16, 2014)
- Unlike a Rolling Stone: Why Bob Dylan, troubadour of the revolution, turned homeward (The American Conservative, May/June, 2014)
- Starting with the Metaphor (Crux Literary Journal, November 25, 2013)
- Lou Reed: The Wild Side, Magic, And Loss (National Review Online, October 29, 2013)
- Take the Deadheads Bowling: Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven (Blurt Online, August 19, 2013)
- The Mind of the South: A Review of William Gilmore Simms's Unfinished Civil War (Chronicles, June 1, 2013)
- Drawn to the Quiet Spaces: Twinstar (Blurt Online, April 16, 2013)
- Greatness Visible: A Review of Selected Letters of William Styron (The American Conservative, March-April, 2013)
- Throwing Shadows: David Bowie's The Next Day (National Review Online, March 16, 2013)
- Ghost of the Lost Coast: A Conversation with David Lowery of Camper Van Beethoven (Blurt, Jan. 26, 2013)
- Behind the Music: A Review of Pete Townshend's "Who I Am" (National Review, Dec. 31, 2012)
- "The Master" and Scientology (The American Conservative [website] Sep. 27, 2012)
- A Quiet Success Story: No Certainty Attached (Funds for Writers, Sep. 7, 2012)
- The Conservative Kerouac (The American Conservative, Sep. 1, 2012)
- Daniel J. Flynn and The Blue Collar Intellectuals (The American Culture, Aug. 4, 2012)
- Beat on the Brat: Wild Bill Burroughs reassessed, via his latest volume of letters (Blurt - Print Edition, June 1, 2012)
- Passing: A Doctor Who Short Story (Whofic.com, May 20, 2012)
- William S. Burroughs Reassessed (Blurt, May 9, 2012)
- First Look: New Isidore LP (Blurt, Feb. 21, 2012)
- On Giving up the Internet for Lent (The American Culture, Feb. 13, 2012)
- In Praise of..."Functional" Technology (The American Culture, Dec. 3, 2011)
- U2: Saving the World One Stadium at a Time (The American Culture, June 11, 2011)
- Rock 'n' Roll Rorschach Test: The Church (Blurt, Feb. 15, 2011)
- John J. Miller's "The First Assassin": A Literary Labor of Love (The American Culture, Oct. 1, 2010)
- Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley - A Review (Blurt - Print Edition, Oct. 1, 2010)
- Do What Thou Wilt: Aleister Crowley (Blurt, Sep. 13, 2010)
- The Beat Generation Revisited: A Review of "The Typewriter is Holy" (The American Culture, Sep. 4, 2010)
- Loyalty: The Lost Virtue (The American Culture, Aug. 21, 2010)
- The Fall of Phil Collins as Greek Tragedy (Blurt, Aug. 6, 2010)
- Return of the Golden God: Robert Plant and Band of Joy (Blurt, July 29, 2010)
- The A-Team: It Crawled from the 80s (The American Culture, June 13, 2010)
- Michael Caine Delivers Old Testament Justice in "Harry Brown" (The American Culture, June 1, 2010)
- Steve Kilbey's Intimate Musical Diary (The American Culture, May 25, 2010)
- Ray Fisher: American Martial Artist (The American Culture, May 17, 2010)
- Robert Plant: Acting His Age (RobertPlant.com, April 26, 2010)
- But I Can't Let It Go (Further Reflections on The Church (Earcandy Archive, April 7, 2010)
- Bill Buckley as Novelist (The American Culture, Dec. 31, 2009)
- Twice-Baked and Twice as Bad (Chronicles, Dec. 1, 2009)
- Review: Mute Math is Adventurous, Liberating (The American Culture, Nov. 17. 2009)
- Soundtrack to the New Old South: A Look at the Drive-By Truckers (Chronicles, June 23, 2008)
- The Theater of the Mind, R.I.P. (Chronicles, Aug. 1, 2007)
- Crater of Needles: A (Doctor Who) Literary Manifesto (Enlightenment, May 1, 2007)