How to Have a Day Job and an Intellectual Life

January 6th, 2026 | 6 min read

It won’t come as a surprise to anybody reading this that I love to read, and write, about ideas—from theology to philosophy to legal theory to modern art and basically anything else.

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John Ehrett

John Ehrett is a Commonwealth Fellow, and an attorney and writer in Washington D.C. His work has appeared in American Affairs, The New Atlantis, and the Claremont Review of Books. He is a graduate of Patrick Henry College, the Institute of Lutheran Theology, and Yale Law School.

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