Essays

Monsters and Mass Politics | Protean, August 4, 2022


Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Whale | Jacobin, February 6, 2022


The government is failing health care workers. Unions aren’t. | Strikewave, February 3, 2021


The Working Dead: Reviving the Crowd as a Protagonist | LA Review of Books Blog, June 24, 2020


“Soul Searching” Will Not Stop the Police Murders of Black People | Truthout, June 22, 2020


Poverty wages in nursing homes have accelerated the coronavirus outbreak. | The Boston Globe, April 25, 2020


Frederick Douglass and the Transformational Power of Courage in a Fearsome World | Black Issues in Philosophy Blog of the American Philosophical Association, February 18, 2020


They called us ‘flat-earthers.’ But we were right. | The Boston Globe, November 20, 2019