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SELECTED ARTICLES, ESSAYS, AND BOOK CHAPTERS

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“Liberalism During Its Respectable Era,” Modern Intellectual History (2024)

 

Co-editor, The Limits of Moderation: Jimmy Carter and the Ironies of American Liberalism, by Leo P. Ribuffo (Washington, D.C.: Westphalia Press, 2023). 

 

“The Master Class on the Make,” The Baffler (December 2017), 105-111.

 

 “The Culture Wars Are Dead, Long Live the Culture Wars!” The Baffler (May/June 2018), 48-55. 

 

 “Reviving Humanities Education: A Counterintuitive Suggestion,” Public Seminar (May 23, 2018).

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“The Internationalization of the US History Curriculum—and Its Discontents,” The American Historian no. 3 (February 2015), 39-42.

 

“The Teacher Wars,” Jacobin (March 3, 2015).

 

“Hegel Meets Reagan,” Jacobin (August 22, 2014).

“Marx’s America,” Jacobin (May 5, 2018).

 

“Marx at 200: Just Getting Started,” Dissent (May 4, 2018).

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 “Rethinking Karl Marx: American Liberalism from the New Deal to the Cold War,” Marxism in America: New Appraisals, eds. Christopher Phelps and Robin Vandome (Manchester University Press, 2021), 119-143. 

 

 “People Always Think Students Are Hostile to Free Speech. They Never Really Are,” Washington Post (March 15, 2018), C1.

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"A Century After Ten Days,” Jacobin (December 4, 2017). 

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 “The Millennial Left’s War Against Liberalism,” Washington Post (July 20, 2017).

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“The Perplexities of Reception History; Or, How Nietzsche and Heidegger Matter to U.S. Intellectual History,” Reviews in American History vol. 41, no. 1 (March 2013), 122-128.

 

“‘A Trojan Horse for Social Engineering’: The Curriculum Wars in Recent American History,” Journal of Policy History vol. 25, no. 1 (2013), 114-136.

“Occupy Wall Street: A New Culture War?” The Chronicle Review (November 18, 2011), B11-B12.

“Harold Cruse’s Ruthless Criticism,” Black Perspectives (October 20, 2017). 

 

“How the Culture Wars Destroyed Public Education,” Washington Post (September 5, 2017).​

 

"Culture Wars and the Humanities in the Age of Neoliberalism,” Raritan (Spring 2017), 128-140.

“Beyond the Whack a Mole Left,” Jacobin (June 6, 2016).

 

“PC Isn’t Back. It Never Went Away.” The Chronicle Review (February 20, 2015), B10-B11.

 

“The Red Template: US Policy in Soviet-Occupied Afghanistan,” Third World Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 3 (2002), 467-489.


“Christopher Lasch: Critic of Liberalism, Historian of Its Discontents,” Rethinking History vol. 13, no. 4 (2009), 499-519.

 

 “The Rise and Fall of Whiteness Studies,” Race and Class, vol. 46, no. 2 (2004), 22-38.

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“Americans and Others: Historical Identity Formation in the United States,” (Chapter 43) Routledge Handbook of Cosmopolitan Studies, Gerard Delanty, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2012), 527-537; Second Edition (Chapter 40 expanded (2018), 467-479.

 

“Teach for America: The Hidden Curriculum of Liberal Do-Gooders,” Jacobin (Winter 2012), 51-56.

 

“Up from the Sixties,” Reviews in American History vol. 40, no. 1 (March 2012), 116-121.

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