Magee’s central interest in the relationship between religion and American public life runs throughout his broader academic work. His scholarly reputation rests largely on his 2008 Baylor University Press book, What the World Should Be: Woodrow Wilson and the Crafting of a Faith-Based Foreign Policy, in which he argues that Wilson's deep Presbyterian convictions, translated into secular idealism, were the driving force behind his foreign policy. His work includes a chapter on Wilson for the Blackwell Companion series, an article for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion on U.S. foreign policy and faith, and a study of religion and the First World War through the lens of Anglican chaplain Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy.
Beyond the academy, Magee writes on Medium with candor and moral urgency, and his essays range from philosophical reflections on collective responsibility and political crisis to personal meditations on loss, memory, and the burden of the past. Throughout, he remains driven by the same animating question that underlies his scholarship: how belief shapes human behavior in the world.

His current academic writing can be found at: https://umgc.academia.edu/MalMagMalcolmMagee.
Some of his other writing can be found at his author page on Medium: https://medium.com/@malcolmmagee