“It Would Happen This Way: Revisiting Three Days of the Condor,” Cineaste 49:2 (spring 2024), pp. 22-25.
"Naming the Unnamed War," (Bertrand Tavernier’s La Guerre sans Nom), Boston Review, March 7, 2024.
“Wenders, Canonized,” New Left Review Sidecar, February 2, 2024.
“Addressing the China Challenge: Realisms Right and Wrong,” Los Angeles Review of Books, October 2, 2023.
“Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Blue, White and Red: Revisiting the ‘Three Colors’ Trilogy,” Cineaste 48:4 (fall 2023), pp. 16-20.
“Rigged Capitalism and the Rise of Pluto-Populism: On Martin Wolf’s The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism,” Los Angeles Review of Books, May 14, 2023.
“It’s a Good Time to Leave the Persian Gulf,” The National Interest, March 22, 2023.
“Highbrow’s Enemy” (on Quentin Tarantino’s Cinema Speculation) New Left Review Sidecar, February 3, 2023.
“Le Corbeau,” Cineaste 49:1 (winter 2022), pp. 55-56.
“The Education of Ben Bernanke,” Boston Review, August 18, 2022.
“The Party and the Guests,” Cineaste 48:3 (summer 2022), pp. 61-62.
“Misreading Inflation,” Boston Review, December 1, 2021.
“A Very Strong Effect on the World: A Conversation with Phillip Lopate,” Los Angeles Review of Books, September 18, 2021.
“An Artist in Her Own Right: The Cinema of Agnes Varda,” Cineaste 46:3 (summer 2021), pp. 4-9.
“Mike Nichols and the American Century,” Boston Review, June 4, 2021.
“A Very Acute Watcher: A Conversation with David Thomson,” Los Angeles Review of Books, March 23, 2021.
"The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood," Bright Lights Film Journal (November 2020).
"Town Bloody Hall," Cineaste (winter 2020).
"The Keynesian Revolution," (Review of Zachary Carter's The Price of Peace) Boston Review, July 13, 2020.
"Paul Volcker won his fight on inflation—The Battle to Regulate Big Finance is Ongoing," Washington Post, December 12, 2019.
"The Man Who Predicted Nazi Germany," New York Times, December 7, 2019.
"Once Upon a Time . . . In Hollywood," Cineaste 45:1 (winter 2019), pp. 49-51.
“The Fire Last Time,” Los Angeles Review of Books, July 22, 2019
“Whistling Past the Graveyard: Robert Skidelsky’s Money and Government,” Boston Review, April 9, 2019.
“Confessions of a Left-Conservative: Norman Mailer in the Library ofAmerica,” Los Angeles Review of Books,” September 19, 2018.
“Adam Tooze’s Crashed: From the Global Financial Crisis toKnow-Nothing Nativism,” Los Angeles Review of Books,” August 16, 2018.
“Scenes from a Marriage,” Cineaste 44:1 (winter 2018), pp. 67-68.
“Surviving the Emerging Dark Age: Towards a New Counter-Culture,” Los Angeles Review of Books, July 18, 2018.
“Elevator to the Gallows," Cineaste 43:3 (Summer 2018), pp. 62-64.
"Who Knew it Could Get Worse? When Nixon Haunted the New Hollywood," Cineaste 43:2 (Spring 2018), pp. 30-35.
Review of Alan Blinder, “Advice and Dissent,” Washington Post, April 6, 2018
“This is the Spanish Civil War” Los Angeles Review of Books, March 17, 2018
“Vietnam ’67: When the Wise Men Failed,” New York Times, October 31, 2017.
“The Stranger,” Cineaste 43:1 (winter 2017), pp. 63-65.
“The Obsessions of Hitchcock, Welles, and Kubrick,” Boston Review, June 9, 2017.
“America, America,” Los Angeles Review of Books, January 15, 2017.
“Five Looming Geopolitical Crises of the Trump Administration,” Boston Review, January 11, 2017.
“Trump Could Accelerate the Doom of the Dollar Order,” Forbes.com, Dec. 19, 2016.
Review, A. O. Scott, “Better Living through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth,” Film Quarterly 70:2 (winter 2016).
“Systemic Breakdown,” Los Angeles Review of Books, July 16, 2016
“Trump the end of Everything,” Boston Review, June 7, 2016
“Reviving Progressive Foreign Policy,” The National Interest June 9, 2016 (with Jim Goldgeier)
Review, “Woody: The Biography,” Cineaste 41:3 (Summer 2016)
“Machinations of Wicked Men,” Boston Review 42:2 (March/April 2016), pp. 49-55
“Does America Have a Glass Jaw?” New York Daily News, December 28, 2015
“Woody Allen at Eighty,” Bright Lights Film Journal, November 14, 2015
“The Confession,” Cineaste 40:4 (fall 2015), pp. 60-61
“Passive Resistance: The Deceptive Calm of The Silence of the Sea,” Film Quarterly 69:1 (fall 2015), pp. 90-92
“Back to the Next Great Recession,” Los Angeles Review of Books, April 23, 2015
“Crash Course: Preventing the Next Financial Crisis,” Boston Review Sept 26, 2014
Review, “Mad as Hell,” Cineaste 39:4 (fall 2014), pp. 76-7
"Same as it Ever Was? Continuity and Change in the International Monetary System". Review of International Political Economy 21:5 (October 2014)
"The Neoliberal bailout". Boston Review 39:4 (July/August 2014), 61-65
"Late, Great Chabrol". Bright Lights Film Journal (July 2014)
Review, "Wall Street: A History". Journal of Economic Literature 51 (2013), 903-4
"Currency, Coercion, and Contemporary China," preface to Chinese edition of Currency and Coercion: The Political Economy of International Monetary Power (2013)
-- Chinese version (PDF) -- English version (PDF)
Review, "Alfred Hitchcock’s America," Screening the Past 37 (October 2013)
"Larry Summers and the End of Political Shame". BR Blog (July 2013).
"Hard Money Man: Paul Volcker’s Economy". Boston Review 38:2 (March/April 2013), 58-62.
Review, "An Army of Phantoms". Cinema Journal, 51:4 (summer 2012), 215-8.
"When Critics Mattered: Kael, Ebert, and '70s Film". Boston Review, 36:2 (March/April 2012).
"Review, "Politics and Strategy," Perspectives on Politics, 10:1 (March 2012).
"Keynes, Recovered". Boston Review, 35:3 (May/June 2010).
"The Only Thing That Will Work With Iran". Fox Forum (May 21, 2010).
Review, "Is There A Keynesian High Politics?" International Studies Review, 9:2 (2007).
"All the President's Men". Film and History, 36:2 (Spring 2006).
"Night Moves: America at Middle Age". Film and History, 36:1 (Fall 2006).
Review, "The Future of Money". Perspectives on Politics, 3:1 (March 2005).
Review, "Nixon and the Movies". Film and History, 35:1 (Fall 2005).
"NATO Took Best Course of Action". Los Angeles Times (Friday, April 16, 1999).
"Culprit is Unregulated Capital". Los Angeles Times (Sunday, September 13, 1998).