Journal Articles
2024. "Moving Forward in the World: Outcomes and Communication for Effective Reform." Future in Educational Research 2 (no. 1): 6–15.
2022. "In Search of a Creator: Infinity and Existence in the Kalam Cosmological Argument." Aporia 32 (no. 1): 31–44.
Book Reviews
2024. "Socrates' Search." Review: Kevin Crotty, Ignorance, Irony, and Knowledge in Plato (Lexington Books, 2022). Voegelin View.
Popular Press
2026. "The Emperor who Defined the Middle Ages." The Epoch Times.
2026. "How a Monastery Helped Preserve the West." The Epoch Times.
2026. "Did Cicero Save Rome? The Catilinarian Conspiracy." The Collector.
2026. "5 Great Speeches from Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War That Explain War." The Collector.
2026. San Marco: The Convent that Changed the World." The Epoch Times.
2026. "5 Ancient Libraries That Changed the World." The Epoch Times.
2026. "On Building a Beautiful World: The Art of Alberti." The Epoch Times.
2026. "3 Fascinating Accounts of Sacred Pilgrimages." The Epoch Times.
2026. "Greek Philosophy and Gymnasium: Healthy Bodies and Minds." The Epoch Times.
2026. "How Themistocles Interpreted a Riddle and Saved Athens from the Persians." The Collector.
2026. "The Printing Press: How Modernity Began." The Epoch Times.
2026. "Prometheus Bound: Living Within Limits." The Epoch Times.
2026. "4 Greco-Roman Myths about the Crucible of Art." The Epoch Times.
2026. "Hesiod's Simple Manual for Living Well." The Epoch Times.
2026. "Nicias' Unwavering Patriotism." The Epoch Times.
2026. "The Future of Architecture" (co-author, Tucker Wilson). The Vitruvian Protocol.
2026. "Building for Eternity: Rome’s Engineering Genius." The Epoch Times.
2026. "Piety’s Transformative Power in the 'Life of Numa Pompilius.'" The Epoch Times.
2026. "Nature and Evil in Virgil’s Eclogues." The Epoch Times.
2026. "4 Timely Lessons From an Ancient Storyteller." The Epoch Times.
2025. "Baruch Spinoza’s 3 Levels of Knowledge." The Epoch Times.
2025. "Umberto Eco’s Anti-Library: A Case for Keeping Piles of Unread Books." The Epoch Times.
2025. "A Priest’s Praise of Folly." The Epoch Times.
2025. "Roman Philosopher Epictetus’s 3 Stoic Tenets." The Epoch Times.
2025. "Sophie Scholl and The White Rose." The Epoch Times.
2025. "Petrarch: Befriending the Ancients." The Epoch Times.
2025. "Hypatia and the Price of Intellectual Freedom." The Epoch Times.
2025. "Letters From a Prison Cell." The Epoch Times.
2025. "Antigone’s Virtues." The Epoch Times.
2025. "Themistocles and the Wooden Wall." The Epoch Times.
2025. "Pericles’s Funeral Oration." The Epoch Times.
2025. "Montaigne on the Road." The Epoch Times.
2025. "Leo Tolstoy’s Search for Meaning." The Epoch Times.
2025. "'Middlemarch': The Power of Acceptance." The Epoch Times.
2025. "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Journey Through Italy." The Epoch Times.
2025. "Revenge and Resolution in Aeschylus’s Oresteia." The Epoch Times.
2025. "The Singing Historian: The Ancient Greek Herodotus." The Epoch Times.
2025. "The Poet Who Founded Democracy." The Epoch Times.
2025. "On the Power of Writing: Ovid’s Hopeful Longing." The Epoch Times.
2025. "Bernard of Clairvaux’s 4 Degrees of Love." The Epoch Times.
2025. "The Struggle for Unity in the Soul." The Epoch Times.
2025. "The Milky Way and Its Myths: Sacred Stars and Starry Nights." The Epoch Times.
2025. "Thomas Hobbes on the Importance of History." The Epoch Times.
2025. "A Simple Hobbit’s Journey to Greatness." The Epoch Times.
2025. "From Taverns to Revolutionary Ideas." The Epoch Times.
2025. "A Troubled Doctor and the Oxford English Dictionary." The Epoch Times.
2025. "3 Insights Into Happiness From a Greek Philosopher." The Epoch Times.
2025. "Why the American Founding Fathers Loved Cicero." The Epoch Times.
2025. "3 Lessons in Leadership From a King’s Biographer." The Epoch Times.
2025. "4 Poems for an Auspicious New Year." The Epoch Times.
2024. "The Adventures of ‘Smith of Wootton Major.'" The Epoch Times.
2024. "Aristotle’s 3 Main Influences on America’s Founding Fathers." The Epoch Times.
2024. "Soren Kierkegaard’s 3 Stages for a Meaningful Life." The Epoch Times.
2024. "3 Ways Plato Influenced the American Founding Fathers." The Epoch Times.
2024. "Saint Augustine of Hippo’s 3-Stage Path to the Divine." The Epoch Times.
2024. "Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy: 3 Insights Into the Nature of Happiness." The Epoch Times.
2024. "3 Insights to Find Your True Voice From Letters to a Young Poet." The Epoch Times.
2024. "Vitruvius: The Roman Architect Who Laid the Foundations of Western Architecture." The Epoch Times.
2024. "On the Sublime in Literature." The Epoch Times.
2024. "Cicero on the Ideal Orator." The Epoch Times.
2024. "Aristotle’s 3 Types of Friendship." The Epoch Times.
2024. "John Stuart Mill on Free Expression." The Epoch Times.
2024. "Horatius at the Bridge: The Dedication of a Hero." The Epoch Times.
2024. "Saint Thomas Aquinas on Virtue and Sin." The Epoch Times.
2024. "The Way of Walden: Finding Peace in Simplicity." The Epoch Times.
2024. "‘O Brave New World!’: Aldous Huxley on the Moral Dimensions of Art." The Epoch Times.
2024. "The Spirit of Man: The Limits of Big Brother." The Epoch Times.
2024. "Liberalism as a Way of Life: A Guide to Living Today." The Epoch Times.
2024. "When Power Goes Askew: Catiline and Aaron Burr." The Epoch Times.
2024. "4 Stoic Principles to Withstand the World." The Epoch Times.
2024. "My Experience at Ralston College." Voegelin View.
2020. "Life Advice from a Talking Nose: Nikolai Gogol on the Absurdity of Status and Appearance." The Apeiron Blog.
2020. "Petrarch’s Three Lessons For A Better Society." The Apeiron Blog.
2020. "Is There A Way Out Of a Meaningless Existence?" The Apeiron Blog.
2020. "4 Insights Into The Lost Art Of Breathing." Illumination.
2020. "The Paradox Of Time." The Apeiron Blog.
2020. "Are Determinism & Randomness Compatible?" The Apeiron Blog.
2020. "3 Books That Will Help You Better Understand Yourself and Others." The Apeiron Blog.
2019. "Cuba's Complicated History." The Pearl 18 (no. 1): 38–39.
Creative Writing
2026. 13th Antigone Competition (Epigram Trifariam). Honorable Mention.
2024. "The Lion Gate." Voegelin View.
2023. “Roman Ruins.” Voegelin View.
2023. "Breathe." Venti: Air, Experience, Aesthetics.
Translations
(In progress.) Oration in Praise of Philosophy. (Arthur Schopenhauer, Declamatio in Laudem Philosophiae).
(In progress.) The Book of Hebrews.
(In progress.) Nietzsche and the Philosophical Stage. (Sarah Kofman, Nietzsche et la Scène Philosophique, Galilée, 1986.)
(Under review.) "The Comedy of Stoicism," from Sarah Kofman, Nietzsche et la Scène Philosophique, Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy.
Invited Talks
June 24, 2023. "On Honesty and Conviction: Nietzsche’s Free Spirits in the Service of Higher Aims." Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Australasia.
Conference Presentations
February 3, 2024. "Mens Sana in Corpore Sano: Contra Gnosticism via a Philosophy of Exercise." (Em)Body/Environment, Southern Humanities Council, Savannah, GA.
February 18-22, 2023. "The Paper Method in Practice: Harnessing Technology for Equity in Education." 67th Annual Conference, CIES, Washington, DC.
April 18-22, 2022. "Reimagining Education: Al-Ghazali and Philosophy for Children on the Future of Learning." 66th annual conference of the CIES, Minneapolis, MN.
April 4-8, 2022. "Al-Ghazali and Philosophy for Children: Meaningful Parallels for a Meaningful Future." National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Council of Undergraduate Research (virtual).
April 1-2, 2022. "On Virtue and the State: A Critical Evaluation of Adorno’s Aristotle Critique." 26th Annual SUNY Oneonta Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, NY. (Accepted but unable to attend.)
March 17, 2022. "The 2020 Colonial Pipeline Spill: Accident or Moral Disaster?" 6th annual conference of LSE Undergraduate Political Review, London School of Economics (virtual).
November 20, 2021. "Al-Ghazali and Philosophy for Children: Meaningful Parallels for a Meaningful Future." Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research, California State University, San Bernadino (virtual).
February 7, 2020. "Remnants of Drought: Social, Political, and Economic Inequality in Brazil." San Diego State University Brazilianist Conference (with Tayna Baptista & Kennah Watts), San Diego State University, San Diego, CA.
November 23, 2019. "The Great Drought of 1877-80: Politics, or Lack Thereof." Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research, California State University, San Marcos, San Diego, CA.