October 28, 2024 
LA Review of Books
A lonely nation turns its eyes to you.
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October 12, 2024 
Where Y’ At
A brief history of several hauntings.
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May 19, 2024 
LA Review of Books
A history of the right’s support for autocracy.
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October 30, 2023 
Quillette
An immersive look into Trumpworld.
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August 25, 2023 
The Critic
Is he “saving” the left?
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June 30, 2022 
The Smart Set
The long hard road of being Van Gogh.
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November 4, 2021 
American Purpose
“I am an American. No, I don’t want pity.”
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March 25, 2021 
The Smart Set
Cooped up inside in the land of dreams.
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March 8, 2021 
Chicago Review of Books
The story of one of the Chicago 7
.Activism then and now.
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November 6, 2020 
American Purpose
What Shelley Knew About Climate Change
.The Romantic poet on the melting of Mont Blanc.
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October 26, 2020 
The Smart Set
.Activism on the clipboard beat.
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October 16, 2020 
The Arts Fuse
The popular podcaster fact-checks way too little.
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July 29, 2020 
The Baffler
On evangelical white men and toxic masculinity.
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July 6, 2020 
The Smart Set
Visiting the Sex Museum & The Louvre
On sex and sexuality in art.
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April 25, 2020 
LA Review of Books
“There is only one freedom looked for by the Nixon voter– freedom from dread.”
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March 10, 2020 
The Baffler
Failing Upward with Oliver North.
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February 28, 2020 
The Arts Fuse
Political food fight
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February 10, 2020
LA Review of Books
Joe Biden, then and now.
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December 10, 2019 
The Arts Fuse
George Will’s Conservative Sensibility
Will means well, but the people he’s trying to reach are quite happy to be drunk on their own power.
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August 30, 2019 
The American Prospect
Charles Manson As A Symbol of…Actually, Not Much
He neither represented the 60’s gone wrong nor brought the decade to an end.
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April 2, 2019 
The Guardian
My Dispiriting, Infuriating- and illuminating- Time as a Political Telemarketer
What I learned about politics while phone-banking for the Democrats.
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March 8, 2019 
The Baffler
Reflections on democracy’s decline from years spent in the political fundraising trenches
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April 19, 2018 
The Smart Set
Popping Ken Stern’s political bubbles- just because you think you’re getting out of a liberal bubble, doesn’t mean that you’re not still looking out from within one of your own.
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October 30, 2018 
The Arts Fuse
Filmstruck’s Untimely Demise and The Death of the Imagination
Why is the curtain suddenly dropping now on FilmStruck, a vast, diverse, and tastefully curated archive of films spanning the past century and the entire globe?
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October 25, 2008
Flak Magazine
Henry Kissinger: The Man With the Plan
Woodward’s new book claims that Kissinger enjoys “a powerful, largely invisible influence on Bush’s Iraq policy.”
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May 10, 2008
Flak Magazine
Many of the seemingly innocuous talking heads appearing on network news broadcasts both in the build up to the Iraq War and afterwards were in fact Pentagon “message multipliers” or “surrogates” employed to lend credibility to the Administration’s arguments and rationale.
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November 1, 2006
Flak Magazine
Orhan Pamuk’s Temporary Triumph
A poet or novelist is always in a precarious position, socially speaking.