SELECTED WRITINGS
FASCISM
The Antisemitism animating Putin’s claim to ‘denazify’ Ukraine, The Guardian (February 26, 2022)
America is Now in Fascism’s Legal Phase, The Guardian (Dec. 22, 2021)
Movie at the Ellipse (on January 6) Just Security
(February 4, 2021)
A Covid genocide in the Americas? (with Federico Finchelstein), Project Syndicate (January 21, 2021)
Trump’s Neo-Fascism takes American Racism to the Next Level, Daily Beast
(January 6, 2021)
Will Fascism win the US Election?, Project Syndicate (with Federico Finchelstein) (October 30, 2020)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is right to warn of Fascism in The United States (with Federico Finchelstein and Pablo Piccato), The New Republic (August 20, 2020)
Fascismo en Estados Unidos? El Pais (July 31, 2020)
American Fascism? El Pais in English (August 1, 2020)
La Paradoja de Bolsonaro y Trump (with Federico Finchelstein), New York Times en Espanol (June 3, 2020)
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
CRITICAL RACE THEORY
We disagree on lots of things except the laws against Critical Race Theory,
The New York Times, July 5, 2021 (with Kmele Foster, David French, and Thomas Chatterton Williams)
On Critical Race Theory and Why it Matters, The Economist
(May 24, 2021)
El nationalism blanco de Donald Trump (with Elizabeth F. Cohen), El Pais (October 16, 2020)
Critical Race Theory and the 2020 US Elections (with Elizabeth F. Cohen), El Pais, English (October 20, 2020)
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
Violent Rhetoric
Did Trump incite Violence on January 6th? (with David Beaver), Newsweek
(February 9, 2021)
Beware of “Snakes”, “Invaders”, and other Fighting Words
New York Times Big Ideas, May 16, 2019 (with David Beaver)
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
An die Berliner Demonstranten
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 5, 2014
