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Justin Lee

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As seen in: Arc Digital, First Things, Medium, The Independent (UK), Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Motherboard, BioRxiv, Return, Los Angeles Review of Books, The American Conservative, Lexology, The American Spectator and
Covers:  Politics, U.S.; Religion; Literature
When the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, find me playing in the surf | Associate Editor @firstthingsmag

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Associate Editor, Arc Digital; Contributor, The Independent, Spectator USA, First Things.

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Pro-lifers, it's time for civil disobedience | Spectator USA

Pro-lifers, it's time for civil disobedience | Spectator USA

The Supreme Court has ruled in June Medical Services, LLC v. Russo that the dismemberment and removal of unbo…

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Opinion: Reading 'White Fragility' and canceling your friends won't make you an anti-racist

Opinion: Reading 'White Fragility' and canceling your friends won't make you an anti-racist

White Fragility is the most successful of a slew of recent books functioning as devotional guides in the nuev…

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New Faiths of the Self | Justin Lee

New Faiths of the Self | Justin Lee

C. S. Lewis wrote that to be modern is to be consumed by the magical impulse "to subdue reality to the wishes…

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White Trash Dostoyevsky

White Trash Dostoyevsky

"The virtue of all-in wrestling is that it is the spectacle of excess," wrote Roland Barthes. In so-called "p…

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The Road to Condoning Cannibalism | Justin Lee

The Road to Condoning Cannibalism | Justin Lee

I hardly know what to expect. Have you slaughtered a man before?" Bernd-Jürgen Brandes wrote to Armin Meiwes …

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Screaming into the Architectural Void

Screaming into the Architectural Void

"Look at those stairs, man," says a figment of Thomas Heatherwick's imagination, pointing at the Escher print…

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Stories Staring Into the American Abyss Two new short-story collections prove that conservative art flourishes when it embraces sin, shame, and redemption.

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By Audrey Lee, Justin Lee Verified, Stephan Kapustka
| The American Spectator Verified
Utter Goodness By Audrey Lee Farthest Heaven, 120 pages, $17 A Prisoner’s Cinema By Justin Lee Passage Press, 264 pages, $30 As a child, I spent an inordinate amount of time watching survival shows. I Shouldn’t Be Alive was the one that stuck with me the most.
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Stories Staring Into the American Abyss Two new short-story collections prove that conservative art flourishes when it embraces sin, shame, and redemption.

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By Audrey Lee, Justin Lee Verified, Stephan Kapustka
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Utter Goodness By Audrey Lee Farthest Heaven, 120 pages, $17 A Prisoner’s Cinema By Justin Lee Passage Press, 264 pages, $30 As a child, I spent an inordinate amount of time watching survival shows. I Shouldn’t Be Alive was the one that stuck with me the most.
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Warrior justice comes for Iran Trump’s war satisfies martial virtue

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By Justin Lee Verified
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The West has stopped celebrating our warriors. Credit: Getty candace owensDemocratsDonald TrumpIranIran WarIsraelJust Warnick fuentesTucker Carlson Early on in President Trump’s Iran war, a video circulated on X (formerly Twitter) of a C-RAM system intercepting an Iranian missile near the US Embassy in Baghdad. The tracer rounds were so close together, they seemed to form a continuous laser beam. Accompanying the great shear of light was a sublime sound straight out of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune.
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Awards

Elizabeth George Emerging Writers Grant

2016 - Fiction
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