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