Selected Other Writing
“Two Nations, Red and Blue: Urban Giants Have Less and Less in Common with the Rest of America, Leaving US Politics Beyond Repair” (Richard Florida co-Author), The Daily News, July 9, 2017
“How America’s Rich Legacy of Fear and Hatred Fuels the Conspiracy Theories of Today,” Talking Points Memo, June 21, 2024
“What UFO Cultists Can Teach Us About Political Paranoia Today, “ Time Magazine, March 26, 2024
“How Donald Trump Spun a Political Career Out of Conspiratorial Hatred,” Lit Hub, March 13, 2024
“American Haters: From John Adams to Barry Goldwater,” The Daily Beast, July 13, 2017
“Trump, the Alt-right, Antisemitism, and Zionism” essay in On Antisemitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice (Haymarket, 2017)
“Accelerating the Climate of Hate: The Austrian School of Economics, Hayek, and ‘The New Hate’ essay in Hayek: A Collaborative Biography Part IX: The Divine Right of the 'Free' Market ed. Robert Leeson (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
“Putting Donald Trump on the Couch.” The New York Times, Sept 1, 2015
“This is Why They Have Such Hate: Coulter, Trump, Carson, and the Real History Behind Right-wing Intolerance,” Salon, Sept 24, 2015
“What I Learned at the First International Men’s Issues Conference,” Huffpost, June 30, 2014
“Seething hate even Fox News can’t deny: Cliven Bundy is not an outlier,” Salon, April 26, 2014
“American Paranoids: There is indeed something to be paranoid about,” The Washington Spectator, Jan 4, 2014
“Conspiracy theories explain the right,” Salon, Oct 20, 2013
“The Fine Lines Between Populist Libertarianism, White-Identity Politics and Treason,” The Washington Spectator, Aug 20, 2013
“Democrats Dismiss Rand Paul’s Black Helicopters at Their Peril,” The Washington Spectator, June 18, 2013
“God, Guns and the Sandy Hook Truthers: Vicious Backlash Politics,” Truthout, Feb 5, 2013
“Leader’s Suicide Brings Attention to Men’s Rights Movement,” SPLC Intelligencer, Spring 2012 issue
“Louis Farrakhan Thinks I’m a Good Jew,” The Atlantic, March 1, 2012
“The Perplexing Prejudices of Walt Whitman and Mark Twain,” Library of America, Feb 21, 2012
“McCarthy, Beck, and the New Hate,” The Atlantic, Feb 7, 2012
“The Rise of the New Hate,” Huffpost, Jan 31, 2012