Selected Articles
"We Aren't as Powerless Over Extremism as We May Think," The Globe and Mail, August 11, 2023
"Why the Founders Added 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors," The Atlantic, September 25, 2019
”Decorum Is an Unfashionable Word, But It Has a Radical Core,” Aeon, September 28, 2018
”The Bit Bomb” (with Jimmy Soni), Aeon, August 30, 2017
”How Information Got Re-Invented” (with Jimmy Soni), Nautilus, August 10, 2017
“The Appeal of Trump to Traditionalists,” The Atlantic, March 12, 2017
“What Trump Taught Us About Democracy,” Politico Magazine, January 4, 2017
“Are China’s Leaders Better Than Ours?,” Politico Magazine, August 27, 2015
“America’s Hero Problem,” Politico Magazine, January 16, 2015
“How to Be Intoxicated,” Chronicle of Higher Education Review, December 5, 2014
“The Case for a College Admissions Lottery,” The Atlantic, May 14, 2014
“Roman Fever,” Politico Magazine, January 3, 2014
“Fortune’s Fools: On Meritocracy,” Brooklyn Quarterly, November 7, 2013
“The Comforts of the Apocalypse,” Chronicle of Higher Education Review, August 19, 2013
“How Political Campaign Spending Brought Down the Roman Republic” (with Jimmy Soni), Slate, November 26, 2012
“The Bible Is Not a Diet Plan,” Religion Dispatches, August 13, 2012
“Behind Historic Preservation, a Surreal History,” Chronicle of Higher Education Review, June 11, 2012
“Gluttony Goes Viral,” Chronicle of Higher Education Review, January 15, 2012
“Alinsky, Strauss, and the Paranoia of Influence,” Democracy: A Journal of Ideas online, November 11, 2011
“How the Filibuster Wrecked the Roman Senate—and Could Wreck Ours” (with Jimmy Soni), The Atlantic, March 24, 2011