I am Professor of History emeritus at The New School for Social Research in Greenwich Village, New York City, and a contributing editor to Public Seminar. I write Political Junkie, a Substack newsletter about politics, culture, and media, and higher education, and produce a podcast, “Why Now?” You can listen by subscribing to Political Junkie, or download directly by subscribing at  Apple iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or Soundcloud. 

For fifteen years, I have focused on writing for, and thinking with, a general audience about history and politics. From 2006 to 2015, I blogged at Tenured Radical: from 2011 to 2015, it was hosted at the Chronicle of Higher Education. My work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The New Republic, Politico, The Yale Review, The Observer, AlterNet, Dissent, Eurozine, The Village Voice, Inside Higher Education, and Jacobin.

Click here to order my most recent book, Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy (Basic Books, July 7, 2020). The New York Public Library listed Political Junkies as an “Essential Read” for the 2020 election. Currently, I am researching and writing a biography of journalist and radical feminist activist Susan Brownmiller.

I live in New York City and Northampton, Massachusetts: you can reach me by email.

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