It occurred to me recently that I do a lousy job of keeping track of my own blog posts — I regularly forget that I have written about something, and occasionally I discover a post that it would have been useful to me to remember. So I’m going to start keeping better records. As a beginning, here are the posts I wrote in 2018 that I want to remember:

• What a book I’m reading with care looks like
• A talk I gave at Duke on living with the “repugnant cultural other”
• “You can’t understand the place and time you’re in by immersion; the opposite’s true”
• The kids are all right — sometimes; see more on the same theme here
• On rhetorical Leninism, a concept further developed here
• Why I am a “sad compatibilist”
• A story from my past about “everyday people”
• The higher selfishness and the long defeat
• Excerpts from a talk I gave about the seeds of Christian renewal
• Karl Barth and social media
• Tolkien and the fleeting glimpse of victory
• How my fellow evangelicals move the biblical goalposts
• The sky island of West Texas
• What you can be in Trump’s world: a mark, leverage, or a loser
• Christian colleges and viewpoint diversity
• Education and one’s station in life
• Social media as our Ministry of Amnesia
• Eno on control and surrender, architecture and gardening; and then, as a follow-up, the blog garden
• How I learned not to make room for the devil
• How I became nostalgic for liberal proceduralism
• Wondering who in our time will take the Profumo Option
• How vocabularies become exhausted
• Gradually and then suddenly
• Money, circulation, and Adam Roberts
• We need Daniels, but how do you get them?
• The instrumentalist chain
• Remembering Doc
• Enough with the Christian language policing
• You can write well without dumbing down
• Announcing Breaking Bread with the Dead
• How I drew my mental map of politics
• Maintenance is better than innovation
• Why so many academics write from the position of power
• Why “cultural Marxism” is a nonsense term
• Trump is not inarticulate, he’s asyntactic
• Why I’m thinking of giving up teaching digital literacy
• What I wrote to someone who wants to be a writer
• Christians, pagans, Jews
• Something I’d love to write about the late history of modernism
• Supporting religious freedom — but no bigotry!
• Epistocracy
• What to do when you think a writer is wrong