selected Journalism, Essays and Criticism

Ben Horowitz Is Boring, September 19, 2024, Arc

The Renaming of Robert E. Lee Elementary Started a Civil War in My Neighborhood, July 29, 2024, Texas Monthly

What Rush Hath Wrought, April 11, 2024, Persuasion

In these disappointing essays, David Mamet can’t close the deal, May 6, 2022, Washington Post

Remembering Dave Hickey, Brilliant Art Critic and Renegade Texan, November 20, 2021, Texas Monthly

Photographer Sebastien Boncy Chronicles Life in Houston’s Concrete Jungle, June 29, 2021, Texas Monthly

The Risk-Taking, Boundary-Breaking Austin Gallery That Changed the Face of Texas Art, June 2021, Texas Monthly

Review of Bernadette Barton’s book on the pornification of America, May 7, 2021, Washington Post

Gladden Pappin Wants to Make Conservatism Great Again, January 2021, Texas Monthly

How to Fix the Left-Behind Places, July 31, 2020, Boston Globe

How success ruined the West, February 28, 2020, Washington Post

Simple Hearts: Dave Hickey in Santa Fe, January 28, 2020, The Point

Review: Self-Portrait in Black and White by Thomas Chatterton Williams, September 22, 2019, Tablet

Krauthammer’s vision: freedom, prosperity and stability do not come easily, January 11, 2019, Washington Post

The Souls of Yellow Folk—A Review, November 9, 2018, Quillette

How a Cop-Watcher Is Born, February 26, 2018, Guernica

White Folks, January 2015, 2018, The Point

Review: The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics, September/October 2017, Washington Monthly

The Love Affairs of an American Radical, October 2, 2017, The New Republic

Book Review: Jewish Comedy: A Serious History, October 3, 2017, Moment

Mutually Assured Resentment, July 2017, Washington Monthly

Not Yet Falling Apart, February 2, 2017, Washington Monthly

A Pop Song in Clothes: How Tommy Hilfiger Captured and Lost the Zeitgeist, Vestoj