ideas+history
Why Christians and Cold War Liberals Hate ‘Secular Religion,’
The Bias, 2021
How Business Schools Fail Up (on the history of U.S. business education)
The New Republic, 2020
How College Became a Commodity (on economists and public education)
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2020
The Emptiness of Adam Gopnik’s Liberalism
The New Republic, 2019
Nicos Poulantzas: Philosopher of Democratic Socialism
Dissent, 2019
Left to their Devices (on religious intellectuals, technology, and the Cold War)
Commonweal, 2018
The Meaning of American Factories (on deindustrialization and U.S. politics)
The New Republic, 2018
The Rise of the Thought Leader
The New Republic, 2017
The Radical Hopes of the Russian Revolution
The New Republic, 2017
The Deflationary Mind (on Mark Lilla)
Jacobin, 2016
The Cartoon History of Cosmos
The Daily Beast, 2014
The Fascist History Behind a Suicide at Notre Dame
The Daily Beast, 2013
Jean-Pierre Faye’s Last Attack on Jacques Derrida
The Daily Beast, 2013
politics+religion
Joe Biden’s Endless Search for a Message
The New Republic, 2020
The Eternally Unvetted Bernie Sanders
The New Republic, 2020
The Right’s Phony Class War (on “National Conservatism”)
Jacobin, 2019
America’s Missing Labor Party
The New Republic, 2018
How the Ex-Gay Movement Collapsed
The Daily Beast, 2013
Calvary Chapel’s Tangled Web
The Daily Beast, 2013
How Lauren Drain Escaped the Westboro Baptist Church
The Daily Beast, 2013
The War on Christmas is Over
Newsweek, 2012
The Religious Right After Obama
The Daily Beast, 2012
The Rise and Fall of Dinesh D’Souza
Newsweek, 2012
Liberal Christians Attack Obama Spiritual Adviser
The Daily Beast, 2012
The GOP’s Secularism Problem
Newsweek, 2012
New Supreme Court Decision Should End Hysteria Over Religious Liberty
The Daily Beast, 2012
How Nixon Aide Chuck Colson’s Ideas Transformed American Evangelicalism
The Daily Beast, 2012
Will Evangelicals’ Immigration Shift Mean Common Ground With Obama?
The Daily Beast, 2012
The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife
Newsweek, 2012
Evangelicals Struggle to Address Premarital Sex and Abortion
The Daily Beast, 2012
Gay Parenting Study Starts a War
The Daily Beast, 2012
How to Campaign for Sainthood
Newsweek, 2012
Women in Miters
Newsweek, 2012
Is the Tea Party the Christian Right in Disguise?
The Daily Beast, 2011
Why Evangelicals Forgive (Republican) Sex Scandals
The Daily Beast, 2011
Rick Perry’s Tea Party Manifesto
The Daily Beast 2011