SELECTED WRITINGS
FASCISM
The Fascist Politics of the Pandemic (with Federico Finchelstein), Project Syndicate (May 4, 2020)
A Democracia Brasilia, Quatro Cinco Um, Folha de Sao Paulo (April 30, 2020)
A politica do amigo e do inimigo, Revista Serrote (March, 2020)
Authoritarian Fantasies (in Portuguese), UOL (March 23, 2020)
For Trump and Modi, Ethnic Purity is the Purpose of Power, The Guardian (February 24, 2020)
I have lived my life in the Shadow of Auschwitz, The Guardian (January 27, 2020)
Yes, ‘Send her Back’ is the face of evil, Newsweek (July 19, 2019)
Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Fascism Claim too extreme?, NY Times (July 4, 2019)
Our Increasingly Fascist Public Discourse, Project Syndicate (January 25, 2019)
If You’re not scared of fascism in the US, you should be, October, 2018, NY Times Op Doc (with Japhet Weeks and Adam Westbrook)
Fascism and the University
The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 3, 2018
Bannon’s Deviant Badge of Honor
NY Times, March 13, 2018
Real News, Fake News, and Why it Matters
NY Daily News, Aug. 11, 2017
Who is a Criminal?
New York Times, May 1, 2017
Unlike all Previous Presidents, Donald J. Trump almost never mentions Democratic Ideals
The Washington Post, The Monkey Cage with David Beaver, February 7, 2017
On Becoming the Enemy
Boston Review, February 2, 2017
On Chess and Democracy
The Washington Post, December 14, 2016
Beyond Lies: Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Reality
New York Times, November 4, 2016
Teaching in the Time of Trump
(with Ben Justice)
Social Education, February, 2016
Democracy and the Demagogue
New York Times, October 12, 2015
ON NEO-LIBERALISM
How Free Market Ideology Perverts the Vocabulary of Democracy
Aeon Magazine (summer, 2016)
ON MASS INCARCERATION
The War on Thugs
(on the role propaganda has played in racialized mass incarceration)
Is the United States a ‘Racial Democracy’?
(with Vesla Weaver)
THE FREE SPEECH CAMPUS ISSUE
The Free Speech Fallacy
Chronicle of Higher Education, February 26, 2016
When Free Speech becomes a Political Weapon
(with Kate Manne), November 13, 2015
On Free Speech and College Campuses: Debate with Sam Harris of FIRE on NPR,
March 27, 2017
OTHER ARTICLES
My Parent’s Mixed Messages about the Holocaust,
New York Times Sunday Review, August 20, 2016
Der Wahn der Überlegenheit
(On the legacy of the 1968 German Student Movement, and Germany’s reckoning with its Holocaust past)
Die Zeit, June 8, 2018
Beware of “Snakes”, “Invaders”, and other Fighting Words
New York Times Big Ideas, May 16, 2019 (with David Beaver)
An die Berliner Demonstranten
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 5, 2014
