Selected Essays:

• Why one anti-trans bill went too far for Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson,” Alternet, April 6, 2021.
• “Republicans put themselves in a box — after driving the nation into a ditch,” Alternet, March 23, 2021
• “Behind the right wing’s nefarious obsession with calling Joe Biden ‘senile,'” Alternet, March 16, 2021
• “Rebel Girl: review of Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy By Leslie Brody,” Women’s Review of Books (v. 38 no. 2, March/April, 2021)
• “The GOP embrace of the new culture war isn’t fooling anyone,” Alternet, March 2, 2021
• “The revenge of the `liberal tears,'” Alternet, February 24, 2021.
• “Here’s what makes the GOP so afraid of impeachment,” Alternet, February 9, 2021.
• “‘This will never end’: Why conservatives sound increasingly desperate and ominous,” Alternet, February 4, 2021.
• “Against Abdicating Power to Big Tech,” Yale Review, February 1, 2021.
• “Peaceful transfer of power? Forget it,” Eurozine, January 8, 2021.
• “Why polls can’t satisfy us,” Eurozine, November 19, 2020.
• “Political Junkies Are Killing Our Democracy,” The Bulwark, August 2, 2020.
• “The Only Way to Save Higher Education is to Make it Free,” New York Times, June 5, 2020.
• “What Will the Historians Say About This Impeachment?” Politico, February 5, 2020.
• “An era of competing populist movements,” in How Will History Books Remember the 2010s? Politico, December 27, 2019.
• “Men Invented `Likability.’ Guess Who Benefits?” New York Times Sunday Review, May 5, 2019. (I talked about this article with Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC, with Michael Smerconish at CNN, and with Brian Lehrer at WNYC.)
• “Why Taking a Stand on the Internet Can Turn a Problem Into a Catastrophe,” Chronicle of Higher Education, August 24, 2018.
• “What Affirmative Action Didn’t Change,” Chronicle of Higher Education, April 2, 2018.
• “Sexual harassment is about power. Why not fight it as we do bullying?” The Guardian, February 10, 2018.
• “A lot of things are broken: why focusing on sex won’t fix sexual harassment,” Eurozine, January 26, 2018.
• “Harvey Weinstein and the Problem of Collaborators,” The Washington Post, October 20, 2017.
• “Angry About Adjuncting? The Radical Move Might Be to Quit,” Inside Higher Education, October 13, 2017.
• “Is It OK to Call Donald Trump Jr. A Boy?” The Washington Post, July 24, 2017.
• “A Hundred Years Later, the Fight Continues,” Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, October 14, 2016.
• “Not Safe for Work: Why Feminist Pornography Matters,” Dissent, spring 2016.
• “A Few Retirements Would Be Nice,” Room for Debate, New York Times, June 5, 2013.