Journalism, Essay, and Research
Journalism is arranged by publication, alphabetized by writer, and organized in reverse chronological order of publication. Essays and research are arranged similarly but sorted into categories. This list is by no means exhaustive but includes the articles that have made a significant impact on my thinking or are simply interesting, entertaining, or worth writing about.
This page is under construction.
Anne Applebaum
Foreign Policy – Europe/Russia
Politics
History
Ruth Shalit Barrett
Education
Culture
Laura Bliss
Culture
Consumer Products
Peter Brannen
Climate
Science
David Brooks
Politics
Culture
History
McKay Coppins
Culture
Journalism
Ellen Cushing
Technology
Culture
William Deresiewicz
History
Daniel Engber
Art
Culture
Caitlan Flanagan
Education
Culture
Franklin Foer
Personal Profile
David Frum
History
Politics – Right Wing
Katherine Gammon
Animals – Whales
Rebecca Giggs
Plants
Climate
Melissa Fay Greene
Culture– COVID
Shadi Hamid
Religion
Culture
Chris Heath
Wil S. Hylton
Tahir Hamut Izgil
Ibram X. Kendi
Jordan Kisner
Adrienne LaFrance
David Lehman
Helen Lewis
Benjamin Mazer
Tom McTague
John McWhorter
Michael J. Mooney
Amanda Mull
Jenny Odell
George Packer
James Parker
Jeffrey Rosen
Julia Rosen
Ariel Sabar
Jennifer Senior
Jesse Singal
Laura Shapiro
Jeffrey E. Stern
Aatish Taseer
Derek Thompson
Kaitlyn Tiffany
David True
Ed Yong
Multiple Writers
A Simple Approach to Ending Extreme Poverty – H. Luke Schaefer and Kathryn J. Edin
Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids – Adam Grant and Allison Sweet Grant
The Coddling of the American Mind – Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Alice Hines
Haley Phelan
Personal Profile – Guru Jagat
Culture
Alice Robb
Last Dance
Keziah Weir
Jeff Wise
Sam Adler-Bell
Politics – Right Wing
Zachary D. Carter
Alexander Clapp
Matt Ford
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein
Jackie Mader
Mariana Mazzucato
Marion Renault
Stephanie Russell-Kraft
George Scialabba
Alex Shephard
Jordan Michael Smith
Adele M. Stan
Aaron Timms
Michael Tomoaky
Politics
Profile
Mary L. Trump
Yasmine Al-Sayyad
Rachel Aviv
Burkhard Bilger
Anthony Bourdain
Ed Caesar
Culture
Technology - North Korea
History
Jelani Cobb
Lauren Collins
Larry David
Jiayang Fan
Hannah Fry
Rivka Galchen
James Ross Gardner
David Gilbert
Adam Gopnik
Alice Gregory
Elizabeth Griswold
Sophie Haigney
Nathan Heller
Matthew Hutson
Dhruv Khullar
Elizabeth Kolbert
Akash Kapur
Anthony Lane
Jill Lepore
Gideon Lewis-Kraus
D. T. Max
Technology – Bitcoin
Patricia Marx
Rebecca Mead
Ancient History
Louis Menand
Nicolas Niarchos
M. R. O’Connor
Meghan O’Gieblyn
Nick Paumgarten
Douglass Preston
David Rohde
Alex Ross
Kelefa Sanneh
Kathryn Schulz
John Seabrook
Parul Sehgal
Gary Shteyngart
Sarah Stillman
Ben Toub
Nicola Twilley
Technology – Food
Personal Profile- Mazes
Jonathan Chait
Brock Colyar
Lizzie Fiedelson
Rachel Handler
Olivia Nuzzi
Matthew Schneier
David Wallace-Wells
Molly Young
Benjamin Wallace
Aude White
Christopher Benfey
Mark Danner
Linda Greenhouse
Verlyn Klinkenborg
Hari Kunzru
Jessica T. Mathews
Bill McKibben
Benjamin Nathans
Robert O. Paxton
David Quammen
Zoë Schlanger
Nathan Thrall
Alan Weisman
Audrey Wollen
Hannah Dreyfus
Elizabeth Weil
Multiple Writers
Poison in the Air – Lylla Younes, Ava Kofman, Al Shaw, and Lisa Song
The Secret IRS Files Reveal How Much the Ultrawealthy Gained by Shaping Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Tax Cut” - Justin Elliot and Robert Ferurechi
Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank – James Bandler, Patricia Callahan, and Justin Elliott
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax – Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen, and Paul Kiel
Jessica M. Goldstein
Scaachi Koul
Anne Helen Peterson
Sam Anderson
Emily Bazelon
Karen Blankfeld
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
H. Claire Brown
Ed Caesar
Stephen L. Carter
Thomas Chatterton
Siddhartha Deb
Ruth La Ferla
Amanda Fitzsimons
Vanessa Friedman
Daniel Fromson
Charles Homans
Ferris Jabr
Brooke Jarvis
Robert Kolker
Andrew Leland
Francesca Mari
Lauren Markham
Joe Mooallem
Alex W. Palmer
Elaina Plott
James Verini
Foreign Policy, History - Ukraine
Russell Shorto
Jake Silverstein
Timothy Snyder
Paul Tough
Elisabeth Zerofsky
David P. Barash
Jonathan Bines
William J. Fitzpatrick
Angus Fletcher
Joel Frohlich
Brian Gallagher
Philip Goff
Annaka Harris
Sabine Hossenfelder
Tam Hunt
Hope Jahren
Katie Jewett
Ryota Kansai
Alan Lightman
Mark Macnamara
Hedda Hassel Mørch
Steve Paulson
Sidney Perkowitz
Julie Sedivy
Grant Wilson
Peter Wohlleben
Lina Zeldowich
Multiple Writers
Why Misinformation Is About Who You Trust, Not What You Think – Brian Gallagher & Kevin Berger
A Clash of Perspectives on Panpsychism – Brian Gallagher & Kevin Berger
Brian Barrett
Vince Beiser
Jordana Cepelewicz
Cecilia D’Anastasio
Gilad Edelman
Jon Gertner
Andy Greenberg
Stephen S. Hall
Virginia Hefferman
Brooke Jarvis
Kathryn Joyce
Steven Levy
Noelle Mateer
Seema Yasmin
James Butler
Climate
Meehan Crist
Malcolm Gaskill
Laleh Khalili
Rosa Lyster
Barbara Newman
David Runciman
Eliot Weinberger
Zoe Bernard
David Browne
EJ Dickson
Kevin T. Dugan
Stephen Rodrick
Steve Volk
Caroline Delbert
Research Papers and Essays
Science, Technology, and Medicine
Multiple Authors
Neural Correlates of Maintaining One’s Political Beliefs in the Face of Counterevidence – Jonas T. Kaplan, Sarah I. Gimbel & Sam Harris – Nature, 2016 1
The Emergence of Human Consciousness: From Fetal to Neonatal Life – Hugo Lagercrantz & Jean-Pierre Changeux – Nature, 2009 1
Philosophy and Culture
Thomas W. Clark
Death, Nothingness, and Subjectivity — Naturalism (originally published in The Humanist, 1994)
Thomas Nagel
What Is it Like to Be a Bat? – Duke University Press, 1974 1
Eric T. Olson
Was I Ever a Fetus? – Philosophy and Penomelogical Research, 1997