I just published my first piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education, a publication I’ve always wanted to write for. (I’m afraid the piece is behind a paywall.) I’m excited for the opportunity, and they’re paying me well. It’s about the pervasive sense of fear in academia, how it impacts the job market, and how the […]

I’m so excited to tell you that my piece on Louis Farrakhan and the future of black political organizing, titled “The Charmer,” has been published in the new issue of Harper’s, which should be on sale now. You should grab a copy. Alternatively, you can read it here, and if you like it, please share it. […]

Hey gang, I’m excited to say that the first entry in my new column for the Observer came out in print yesterday and is now available online. It’s on the need for addressing workplace gender inequality with structural solutions, and argues that it takes more than well-meaning men in positions of power to solve these […]

Every year, I take a moment at Thanksgiving time to express my gratitude and list some of the good things that I have in my life. Today, I find myself spoiled for choice. The past year has been one of profound professional success and personal satisfaction for me. I completed my PhD this past May. […]

I’m in The Observer, looking back at Grantland with both admiration and frustration. It’s another in my long series of trying to work out a basic question: why are our conversations on art and culture sites of such profound anxiety? Check it out.

Hey gang, I’ve got a piece in The New Republic today, riffing on my upbringing at Wesleyan University, my piece for the New York Times Magazine, and campus activism. I talk about why I have love for college activists in general and Wesleyan students in particular, and then lament the way in which today’s campus activists tend to […]

Gang, I’ve got a piece I really loved writing in the new issue of Full Stop Quarterly, an online magazine that’s available here for $5 in both PDF and epub formats. I know we live in an era where writing is assumed to be free, but they’re paying me as well as a bunch of  other […]

You know there’s a certain level of persistent dishonesty online that’s one of the most frustrating aspects of existing on the internet. You get numb to it. But this… this is AP Dishonesty, here. It’s next level. So. Here’s that thread, which you may read if you’d like, to encounter someone deliberately, directly, intentionally, and […]