On the attack at the Capitol
I’m continuing to write in Spanish for Nueva Sociedad on U.S. politics. Here is an interpretation of the attack on the Capitol building. In short: don’t say “this is not […]
I’m continuing to write in Spanish for Nueva Sociedad on U.S. politics. Here is an interpretation of the attack on the Capitol building. In short: don’t say “this is not […]
In the Chronicle Review, I tried to work through my frequently conflicted feelings about teaching, politics, history, and ideology, especially in this moment of intense polarization. We work and live in a […]
UPDATE 07/06/2018: After the election results, Carlos and I returned to Dissent to analyze the results. My friend Carlos Bravo Regidor and I grew frustrated with the international coverage of […]
In the Los Angeles Review of Books, I have a review of Campaigning Culture: The Journals of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, edited by Giles Scott-Smith and Charlotte Lerg. IN […]
In my debut in The Nation‘s Books & the Arts section, I have an essay based on a reading of Bernie Sanders’s two campaign books and two volumes of essays by the left-wing […]
I have a somewhat late-breaking obituary of Fidel Castro, up now at Dissent magazine. Rather than a straight obit, I’ve tried to take stock of the different responses to Fidel on […]
At Inside Higher Ed, I have a how-to guide to academic Twitter with a prologue on academic precarity and public engagement. “Precarity helped create the new public scholar,” I argue: […]
Update 5/3/2016: this essay has been published in Spanish by Nexos. I’m honored to be making my debut in Dissent, a magazine I greatly admire. To my mind, Irving Howe navigated […]
Up now, at The New Republic: President Barack Obama’s proposed nuclear deal with Iran has prompted concerns from conservatives who say its government can’t be trusted to adhere to the […]
My latest on issues in higher education is up, on the subject of how to treat contingent faculty with respect. It used to be the case that non-tenure-track faculty were […]