On high school debate at The Yale Review
Against making/letting writers talk at Gawker
On eros and appetite, a very short letter to Harper's in response to an essay by Agnes Callard
On the state of contemporary feminism (a contribution to a round table at The Drift)
On how the pandemic changed my time in graduate school, as part of a series for the Chronicle Review
On online stalking and Bergman's Persona for the Yale Review
On Eric Rohmer, Bataille, and Lionel Trilling (yes, they are thematically related, I swear!) for Cabinet
On Henry James, Martha Nussbaum, and objectification for Art in America
On "public philosophy" for Oxford Public Philosophy
On at-will employment and "cancel culture" for Jacobin
On The Talking Heads and Augustine for Cabinet
On Marie Kondo for the Hedgehog Review
On quarantining for The Point
On the value of philosophy for the Hedgehog Review
On Simone Weil and female appetites for AGNI (print only; email me for a PDF)
On why morally bad men are also aesthetically bad for The Baffler
On self-help and the oppressive aspects of positivity for The Baffler
On serial killers, satiation, and Augustine, in the Hedgehog Review
On pleasure, pain, and BDSM in The Point
On whether sexist men are bad thinkers in the Chronicle Review
On women and waiting, in the Fall 2016 issue of the Hedgehog Review
On Hieronymus Bosch on the New Yorker culture blog
On Gone Girl and the femme fatale on the New Republic website
On Techno in Berlin on the New Republic website
On vampires in the LA Review of Books
On smart yet sexist men in The Baffler
Against making/letting writers talk at Gawker
On eros and appetite, a very short letter to Harper's in response to an essay by Agnes Callard
On the state of contemporary feminism (a contribution to a round table at The Drift)
On how the pandemic changed my time in graduate school, as part of a series for the Chronicle Review
On online stalking and Bergman's Persona for the Yale Review
On Eric Rohmer, Bataille, and Lionel Trilling (yes, they are thematically related, I swear!) for Cabinet
On Henry James, Martha Nussbaum, and objectification for Art in America
On "public philosophy" for Oxford Public Philosophy
On at-will employment and "cancel culture" for Jacobin
On The Talking Heads and Augustine for Cabinet
On Marie Kondo for the Hedgehog Review
On quarantining for The Point
On the value of philosophy for the Hedgehog Review
On Simone Weil and female appetites for AGNI (print only; email me for a PDF)
On why morally bad men are also aesthetically bad for The Baffler
On self-help and the oppressive aspects of positivity for The Baffler
On serial killers, satiation, and Augustine, in the Hedgehog Review
On pleasure, pain, and BDSM in The Point
On whether sexist men are bad thinkers in the Chronicle Review
On women and waiting, in the Fall 2016 issue of the Hedgehog Review
On Hieronymus Bosch on the New Yorker culture blog
On Gone Girl and the femme fatale on the New Republic website
On Techno in Berlin on the New Republic website
On vampires in the LA Review of Books
On smart yet sexist men in The Baffler