Selected Popular Publications
On the socialist left’s self-delusions, for The New York Times
On Donald Trump and the Cult of Smart, for the Washington Post
On corporations as the greatest threat to free speech, for the Washington Post
On the threat of Republican antipathy towards universities, for the Los Angeles Times
On the need for a progressive policy agenda in California and beyond, for the Forward
On the left’s fixation on easy victories, for Current Affairs
On another charter school scandal, for Jacobin
On declining absolute income mobility, for The Guardian
On knowledge and knowingness, for Jacobin
On pro-globalization neoliberal pundits, for Current Affairs
On Bernie Sanders and Election 2016, for The Washington Post
On free expression and private forums, for the Los Angeles Times
On the identity crisis of the Democrats, for The Washington Post
On life in college towns, for The Towner
On the Panama Papers, for Foreign Policy
On the need to assess assessments, for the New America Foundation
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 critique drift for In These Times
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 The Dish
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 Gawker’s coverage of Rob Ford for Salon
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 the fundamentals of conservatism for Wunderkammer
On the resentment machine for The New Inquiry
Academic Writing
Standardized assessments must account for non-standardized institutions, for eCampusNews
Standardized Tests of College Learning: Past and Future, for the New America Foundation
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, where I served as Comm Editor
“Evaluating the Comparability of Two Measures of Lexical Diversity” for System
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”