I wrote about J.D. Vance's new book for The Nation. Anyone who knows me knows I dislike politicians magically transforming into good ol' boys when it's politically advantageous. (Looking at you, DJT Jr.) Vance has some actual good ol' boy cred but he

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