Recent Essays

• “The DMZ at 70,” Los Angeles Review of Books, July 2, 2024
• “Out of the Ordinary: Vermeer’s World and Ours,” The Point, May 9, 2024
• “The River and The Sea: Thoughts on Provocation,” Damn Magazine, Spring 2024.
• “Ostalgie: Revisiting East Germany,” Los Angeles Review of Books, October 1, 2023.
• “Money, Marx, Magic,” Damn Magazine, Autumn 2023.

Recent Academic Articles & Book Chapters

• “Political Theory, the Archive, and the Problem of Authority,” PS: Political Science & Politics, (Spotlight: Archives in the History of Political Thought), 57:1, pp. 86-88.
• “Jurisgenerativity in the Age of Big Data,” in In Search of the Concrete Universal: Seyla Benhabib and the Future of Critical Theory, (Eich, Jurkevics, Nathwani, Siegel, eds.), Columbia University Press, 2023.
• “The “Other” Boundary Problem,” in When The People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice, (Atanassow, Bateman and Bartscherer, eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2023.
• “Finding the Bridge: Charles Taylor, Interpretive Methods and Political Philosophy,” Qualitative & Multi-Method Research,(Symposium: Revisiting the Impact of Charles Taylor’s “Interpretation and the Sciences of Man” after 50 Years), 21(2), 2023, pp. 26-30.
• “Strange Sovereignty: Fantasies of Supremacy and Coloniality in the Marvel Cinematic Universe,” in The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe(Nicholas Carnes and Lilly J. Goren, eds.), Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2023, pp. 142-153.
• “Hannah Arendt: Storyteller,” Hannah Arendt: The Journal for the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, Volume X, 2022, pp. 88-96.
• “Political Theory with an Ethnographic Sensibility,” Contemporary Political Theory, 20(3), (Critical Exchange with Bernardo Zacka, Brooke Ackerly, Jacob Elster, Signy Gutnick-Allen, Humeira Iqtidar and Paul Sagar), 2021, pp. 385-418.
• “Ways of Seeing (The Border),” Borders and Border Walls: In-Security, Symbolism, Vulnerabilities (Andreanne Bissonnette and Elisabeth Vallet, eds.), London: Routledge, 2020, pp. 137-150.
• “Political Theory in an Ethnographic Key,” American Political Science Review, 113(4), (with Bernardo Zacka), 2019, pp. 1066-1070.

Older Essays

• “Your Body is a Passport,” Politico (Europe), January 6, 2020. (Link).
• “After the Fall: Revisiting 1989 in a New Age of Walls,” Los Angeles Review of Books, December 10, 2019. (Link).
• “The Berlin Wall Kept People In. Our New Walls Keep People Out,” The Nation, November 8, 2019. (Link).
• “Inside the Forever Border,” The Wilson Quarterly, Fall 2019 (Nov 7). (Link).
• “The Haves and Have Nots of Big Data,” The Nation, June 5, 2019. (Link).
• “‘Borderland Citizenship’ Could Bring Justice to Both Sides of Trump’s Wall,” The Nation, April 18, 2019. (Link).
• “Citizenship v. The Surveillance State,”Boston Review, December 6, 2018. (Link).
• “The Border is Not a Wall,”Boston Review, April 3, 2018. (Link).