This page features selected pieces of mine that I’ve published professionally, along with selected academic publications and selected blog posts that I consider particularly relevant or worthwhile. This list is not exhaustive.
Published Writing
On the limits of acknowledging white privilege, for the Washington Post
On the university in a time of ambient fear, for The Chronicle of Higher Education (paywall)
On Google Deep Dream and the structural reasons the tech press is broken for Full Stop Quarterly
On the Ashley Madison leak and the culture wars in the Observer
On Bernie Sanders as a socialist in Politico
On bad arguments against polygamy in Playboy
On Rachel Dolezal for The Los Angeles Times
On gay marriage and the “born this way” argument for the Observer
On the story of college on Medium
On critique drift for In These Times
On expensive college gyms on Kinja
On the Rolling Stone University of Virginia investigation for The Week
On geek culture for The New York Times
On the bogus notion that everything’s a remix
On Israeli fears matching Palestinian realities for Andrew Sullivan’s The Dish
On the false STEM shortage narrative on Medium
On the Brookings student loan debt story for Talking Points Memo
On my love for Diana Wynne Jones on The Dish
On Hartford, Connecticut, for n+1
On Southland Tales for the Dish
On The Book of Matt for The New Inquiry
On Gawker’s coverage of Rob Ford for Salon
On discouraging young writers on Medium
On Greenwald derangement syndrome for The Dish
On Who Owns the Future? for The New Inquiry
On liberal humanitarianism and counterfactuals for Jacobin
On academics, public work, and labor for The Dish
On Twilight of the Elites for The New Inquiry
On international college students for The Huffington Post
On how the NBA became a league for snobs on Medium
On the fundamentals of conservatism for Wunderkammer
On education and the failure of procedural equality on Medium
On the resentment machine for The New Inquiry
Academic Stuff
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, where I serve as Comm Editor
“Evaluating the Comparability of Two Measures of Lexical Diversity” for System
Notes on my dissertation, The CLA+ and the Two Cultures: Writing Assessment and Educational Testing
My review of Class Dismissed for Teacher-Scholar
My CCCC panel review for Kairos
“The First Person” for Writing Commons
“Singular ‘Their’ and the Grammar Wars”
“Review of Mary Soliday’s Everyday Genres”
“Eugene Debs’s Statement to the Court: A Rhetorical Analysis”
“Postmodernism in Rhetoric and Composition: Past, Passing, and Yet to Come”
“Towards a Place-Based Writing Pedagogy”
“The Perfomative Utterance in Hamlet“
Blog Stuff
“Yes Virginia, There is a Left-Wing Reform Movement”
“The Night the State Killed Michael Ross”
“Correlation: Neither Everything Nor Nothing”
“p-value Weirdness in a World of Big Data”
“Book Review: Astra Taylor’s The People’s Platform”
“One Year of Emptiness at the Krach Leadership Center”
“Mad Max’s Moderate Feminism and Radical Egalitarianism”
“Racial Inequality is Objectively Worse than it was 30 Years Ago”
“Unless Your Site is About One Thing, It’s About Everything”
“A Simple Reform to Improve Data Journalism”
“Dispatch (Not) From #4c15: the Cheerful Slide into Irrelevance”