Travel memoir and political argument aren't as different as they look. Both start with arrival — in a place, in a situation — and ask what the map got wrong.
Dispatches
Arguments
HuffPost
Social Security
The most successful anti-poverty program in American history. They came for it anyway.
Essay
Ageism Kills
Not slowly, not metaphorically. It shortens lives and we've decided that's acceptable.
Essay
My Peloton Doesn't Lie
At 72, the leaderboard doesn't know my age. Neither does the body — if you refuse to hand it the script.
Essay
Exercise Wasn't in It
On the medical-industrial complex, its stenographers, and the system that isn't failing — it's working exactly as designed.
Essay
The Senate Is Not a Democracy
Two senators represent 40 million Californians. Two represent 580,000 in Wyoming. This was a design choice.
Essay
Opus Dei
An organization that holds significant power in courts, governments, and universities. Most people have no idea it exists.
On the Horizon
Pitched
Assignment America
An Internet that no longer exists. Submitted to the Guardian US.
Pitched
Death of DEI
Diversity programs are collapsing. What dies with them — and what deserved to — are not the same thing. Submitted to Jacobin.
In Development
Aging as Resistance
The culture wants you to fight aging. There's a different argument worth making.