Essays
“Opinion: Elon Musk Is the World’s Richest Man. Why Is He Sleeping on an Office Floor?” The New York Times (February 27. 2025)
“One Elite, Two Elites, Red Elite, Blue Elite.” The Baffler (February 26, 2025)
“The Folly of Academic Self-Help.” The Chronicle of Higher Education (February 12, 2025)
“The Unsettling Genius of David Lynch.” The Nation (January 17, 2025)
“Fairytale at the Supermarket.” The Baffler (January 14, 2025)
“What Are You Going to Do With That?” Harper’s (September 2024)
“The Fortress University.” The Drift (July 11, 2024)
“The Ghosts of New Atheism Still Haunt Us.” Defector (May 29, 2024)
“Work Sucks. What Could Salvage It?” The New Yorker (May 1, 2024)
“The Real Scandal of Campus Protest.” Boston Review (April 25, 2024)
“The Education Factory.” The Nation (April 22, 2024)
“Slave to the Bomb.” The New Statesman (March 2024)
“Burnt Offerings.” n+1 (February 29, 2024)
“Propaganda, Disinformation, Ideology.” The Drift (October 23, 2023)
“Revaluing the Strike.” Jewish Currents (September 27, 2023)
“Daniel in the Lion’s Den.” The Baffler (June 17, 2023)
“The Age of the Crisis of Work.” Harper’s (May 2023).
“It Is Happening Again.” n+1 (February 17, 2023).
“The Right to Grieve.” Jewish Currents (Winter 2022).
“Reenchanted Science.” The Baffler (December 22, 2022).
“The Only Way Out Is Through: Against Reactionary Anticapitalism.” The Bias (June 30, 2022).
“All In the Family: Amy’s Kitchen and America’s Shadow Workforce.” The Drift, Issue 7 (June 2022).
“New Left Review.” n+1, Issue 42 (Spring 2022).
“Revolt of the Super-Employees.” The Baffler (February 17, 2022).
“The People, It Depends.” n+1, Issue 40 (Summer 2021).
“Emergency Breaks.” Real Life (June 7, 2021).
“Other People’s Despair.” The Drift, Issue 4 (May 2, 2021).
“The Cure and the Disease: Social Darwinism from AIDS to Covid-19.” The Drift, Issue 1 (June 24, 2020).
“Why the Alt-Right Loves Nietzsche.” Jacobin (January 2, 2019)
Journal Articles & Book Chapters
“The History of Economics as Science Critique: Demystification and Its Limits.” In Joel Isaac and Philippe Fontaine, eds., Historians and Economic Ideas, 1950-2022, forthcoming special issue of History of Political Economy, accepted and forthcoming.
“Job-Killing Regulation: Anti-Environmentalism, Deindustrialization, and Neoliberal Class Politics.” In preparation for a special issue of Modern Intellectual History on “neoliberal environmental thought” edited by Troy Vettese and Isabel Oakes.
“The Ultimate Think Tank: The Rise of the Santa Fe Institute Libertarian.” History of the Human Sciences (February 21, 2022), 1-26.
“From Planning to Entrepreneurship: On the Political Economy of Scientific Pursuit.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 92 (2022), 27-35.
“The Rise of Entrepreneurial Management Theory in the United States.” Modern Intellectual History (November 2, 2021): 1-25.
Book Review: Naomi Beck, Hayek and the Evolution of Capitalism. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 55, no. 4 (October 2019): 359-361.
“Science as a Game, Marketplace or Both: A Reply to Steve Fuller” (with Naomi Oreskes). Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 6, no. 9 (2017): 65-69.
“It’s No Game: Post-Truth and the Obligations of Science Studies” (with Naomi Oreskes). Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 6, no. 8 (2017): 1-10.
“The Productive Character: Cold War-Liberal Social Psychology from Totalitarianism to Entrepreneurship.” In Cold War Liberalism: Power in a Time of Emergency. Daniel Bessner and Michael Brenes, eds. Under contract with Cambridge University Press.