I wrote a column for The Nation about the various billionaires who've been whining about Zohran Mamdani's teeny tiny tax increase on their multi-million dollar pied-a-terres and threatening to move to Florida. (Promises, promises.) The column is below. The Billionaires’ Bathos Club American

I wrote about Justin and Cerina Fairfax for Vanity Fair. I wrestled with this one for a while and it was hard to write for reasons you'll see in the column, but I hope it makes people think about these systemic problems that put women's lives

I regret to inform you that the Silicon Valley billionaires keep doing and saying dumb horrible things, and so I must continue to write about them. This week's ambulatory polar fleeced repository of hubris is Palantir's Alex Karp. Below is my column for The Nation about

I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, and now every time a reactionary Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation. Here's the column: On Instagram, there’s an activist named Brian

The NYT asked me if I had any thoughts about the discourse around Lindy West's new memoir, and her throuple and whether you can be a feminist and maybe be married to a shitty guy. Because I reliably have opinions on everything, I said yes, and they are

Every now and then I get asked to explain how I ended up with the career I have, and it’s been happening a lot lately, so I thought I’d write it up. (The more general and frequent inquiries come from students, and the more specific ones from other

Alternative titles: PERLs Gone Wild, Bots Behaving Badly, Rage Incensed the Machine I wrote a column for The New York Times about agentic AI and a bot that wrote a hit piece about an engineer who rejected his code. The text is below, with some annotations I'm adding

One of my ongoing frustrations of our culture's veneration of capitalistic success is that it causes people to ascribe positive qualities to rich people that they may or may not have--intelligence and competence, in particular. I wrote about evidence of this in the Epstein files for The

I've added some new dates for opinion writing, personal essay, and creative/writing practice workshops. The schedule is below, and I hope to see you in one of them! WINTER/SPRING 2026 WORKSHOP SCHEDULE AND REGISTRATION OPINION WRITING Opinion Writing | Tuesday, February 10, 2026 | 3:00 pm - 6: