Throwback to Frank Thomas hitting a 525-foot bomb during the 1994 Home Run Derby

I love to write a rave about possibly being possessed by a Greek god in the American Midwest. On Michael Clune’s PAN for Bookforum Magazine: bookforum.com/print/3201/ang…

I wrote about the lack of administrative support for the liberal arts in The New York Times. The standard story we hear is that students don't want it. But a darker reality is that even when it wins big with students and donors it loses with those in power. nytimes.com/2025/07/17/opi…

I’m excited to share my review of Antón Barba-Kay’s very rich and interesting book “A Web of Our Own Making: The Nature of Digital Formation” in the forthcoming issue of American Political Thought: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

Good piece about the fate of the post-left and also the broader challenges of public political thinking in the social media / podcast sphere compactmag.com/article/the-de…

I’ve got one of the essays at the front of the latest volume of The Point Magazine ... buy your physical copy online! thepointmag.com/general/issue-…

Issue 35: What is violence for? | Coming soon.

Our new issue, on violence, is at the printer now. Check out some short excerpts below and then subscribe to be among the first to receive it in print! ezsubscription.com/tpt/subscribe

We need some kind of label for this popular new genre of articles about how men being so lonely, unhappy, and deeply f'd up is inconveniencing women nytimes.com/2025/07/28/wel…

Issue 35 asks: “What is violence for?” Subscribe to read it as soon as it’s out: thepointmag.com/subscribe/

‘This dead woman, Sarah, looked more like me than my own mother, than my sister and cousins. Down to the way she wore her hair, we looked just alike.’ Stephanie Wambugu on death, divorce and the uncanny. granta.com/my-first-husba…

New piece forthcoming in the Point, which outlines my vision for a new Hegelian Marxism - and challenges the recent direction of the value-critique tradition (Mau) as well as degrowth communism (Saito). let’s goooo

New online, James Duesterberg talks to Quinn Slobodian about “Hayek’s Bastards” and the neoliberal ideas that have shaped today’s ascendant right-wing movements: thepointmag.com/dialogue/beyon…

McNally Jackson book club

For The Point Magazine, I wrote on a little-known 1972 exchange between Michel Foucault and René Girard—which occurred against the backdrop of surging left-wing terrorism in Europe—and its significance for the later "religious turn" of the era's intellectuals: thepointmag.com/politics/popul…

"It was just the children who died—children, the only ones among us who don’t know the meaning of death. It had never occurred to them that bombs would fall like symphonies on their souls, taking them up to the vastness of the sky." -Gaza's Yousri Alghoul thepointmag.com/literature/a-l…

Issue 35 is out online today! Dedicated to the question “What is violence for?,” it grapples with the violence that surrounds us and continually explodes into view. What are we to make of it, do about it? Can violence be *for* anything at all? thepointmag.com/issue/issue-35/

I wrote about why/how Christian pacifism makes sense, and in fact why it's core to Christianity. (Not a belief I came to quickly despite growing up The Bruderhof, which the essay goes into.) Thanks to The Point Magazine for the chance to lay out the case! thepointmag.com/examined-life/…

"It’s easy for us to imagine that sex and love naturally go together, but need not always; and this strikes me as equally true of sex and pain." Lillian Fishman from the new issue, on porn: thepointmag.com/criticism/the-…

Absolutely wonderful piece on pacifism by my dear friend and colleague Peter Mommsen : share.google/BFlt8yoQjcaZiY…