- “The Last Days of Sigmund Freud.” Review in The New Republic (September 2022). https://newrepublic.com/article/167592/sigmund-freud-austria-nazis-last-days.
- “Death Drive Nation.” Essay in Late Light (December 2021). Available at: https://late-light.com/issues/issue-1/death-drive-nation.
- “Kyle Rittenhouse is an American.” Essay in Gawker (November 25, 2021). Available at: https://www.gawker.com/news/kyle-rittenhouse-is-american.
- “The Professor Who Became a Cop.” Review in The New Republic (May 2021). Available at: https://newrepublic.com/article/162245/rosa-brooks-professor-police-officer.
- “The Town That Went Feral.” Review in The New Republic (October 2020). Available at: https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project.
- “A white man waving an AR-15 around in front of his mansion says much more about America than you’d think.” Essay in Business Insider (July 3, 2020). Available at: https://www.businessinsider.com/mccloskeys-in-st-louis-history-of-guns-race-violence-separation-2020-7.
- “Policing and the English Language.” Feature in The New Republic (April 2020). Available at: https://newrepublic.com/article/156802/coptalk-policing-english-language.
- “Top Guns.” Review in Bookforum (April/May 2020). Available at: https://www.bookforum.com/print/2701/how-the-nra-became-one-of-the-most-powerful-institutions-in-america-23931.
- “Where’s the Savior?” Essay in n+1, (February 17, 2020). Available at: https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/wheres-the-savior/.
- “The Decade America Terrorized Itself.” Essay in GEN (December 10, 2020). Available at: https://bit.ly/37tCvX5.
- “The Thick Blue Line.” Review in Bookforum (December/January 2020). Available at: https://bit.ly/2ZDA9lW.
- “Parkland, One Year Later.” Feature in Bookforum (April/May 2019). Available at: https://www.bookforum.com/inprint/026_01/20802.
- “Suffer the Children.” Essay in The Revealer (March 20, 2019). Available at: https://therevealer.org/suffer-the-children/.
- “Dupe Throat: Bob Woodward’s Self-Parody.” Book Review in n+1 (September 12, 2018). Available at: https://bit.ly/2NgQUvn.
- “The John McCain Phenomenon.” Essay in The Baffler (August 27, 2018). Available at: https://bit.ly/2MVdUny.
- “What Makes Hunting So Divisive.” Book Review in The New Republic (August 23, 2018). Available at: https://bit.ly/2BNwedV.
- “Soul Murder.” Essay in The Revealer, (August 15, 2018). Available at: https://bit.ly/2wgYcZI.
- “Summer Camp in the Nightmare Factory.” Essay in The Revealer, (June 20, 2018). Available at: https://bit.ly/2yMzPHM.
- “Declaration of War.” Book Review in The Nation, (June 20, 2018). Available at: https://bit.ly/2IufTct.
- “Big Bang Theory.” Book Review in Bookforum, (Summer 2018). Available at: https://bit.ly/2Kl2yoj.
- “Prig and Pig.” Book Review in The Baffler, (April 24, 2018). Available at: https://bit.ly/2w7S88V.
- “The Market Can’t Solve a Massacre.” Essay in Splinter, (March 14, 2018). Available at: https://bit.ly/2yMzPHM.
- “Children of color already face violent discipline in schools. Arming teachers will get them killed.” Essay in The Intercept, (February 28, 2018). Available at: http://bit.ly/2ouhHLm.
- “Adrift in America.” Essay in Document Journal, (February 2, 2018). Available at: https://bit.ly/2tEAsgJ.
- “The Quiet Americans.” Book Review in Bookforum, (February/March 2018). Available at: http://bit.ly/2ofY49y.
- “Black Hole Sun God.” Book Review in n+1, (January 6, 2018). Available at: http://bit.ly/2m3wZV8.
- “Derangement Syndromes.” Essay in The Revealer, (December 21, 2017). Available at: http://bit.ly/2BnF1yH.
- “Ghosts of 2012.” Essay in n+1, (December 14, 2017). Available at: http://bit.ly/2kH0Vqj.
- “The Brutal Origins of Gun Rights.” Book Review in The New Republic, (December 11, 2017). Available at: http://bit.ly/2Dxf3dm.
- “Magic Bullets.” Essay in Logic, No. 3 (Winter 2017). Available at: https://logicmag.io/justice/magic-bullets/.
- “Guns and ‘The Price We Pay for Freedom.’” Essay in The New York Times, (November 8, 2017). Available at: http://nyti.ms/2BaM7a4.
- “Trump Is President, But Kevin Spacey Can’t Even Play One on TV.” Essay in The New Republic, (November 2, 2017). Available at: http://bit.ly/2yh0bga.
- “Silicon Soirée.” Essay in The Revealer, (October 17, 2017). Available at: http://bit.ly/2A1FhmO.
- “The Honest Way to Talk About Guns: Focus on Gun Deaths.” Op-Ed in The New York Daily News, (October 5, 2017). Available at: http://nydn.us/2yqWbxl.
- “Thoughts and Prayers.” Essay in n+1, (October 3, 2017). Available at: http://bit.ly/2gcKsaW.
- “The Annihilator.” Essay in n+1, (August 9, 2017). Available at: http://bit.ly/2uQS7QK.
- “Shot in the Dark.” Digital Longform Feature in Esquire, (August 1, 2017). Available at: http://bit.ly/2vLuGwy.
- “Prince of this World.” Interview with Adam Kotsko in The Revealer, (July 25, 2017). Available at: http://bit.ly/2u17xSd.
- “Social Media Forensics.” Essay The Baffler, (May 31, 2017). Available at: http://bit.ly/2t2BeWv.
- “Mirror Stage President.” Essay in n+1, (May 2, 2017). Available at: http://bit.ly/2sYbXfQ.
- “White Defenders.” Book Review in The New Inquiry, Vol. 60 (May 2017). Available at: http://bit.ly/2t1IH8z.
- “Like the Weather.” Book Review in Dissent, 64 No. 2 (Spring 2017). Available at: http://bit.ly/2n6q3tD.
- “What We Do Best.” Essay in n+1, (April 7, 2017). Available at: http://bit.ly/2o18l6C.
- “Sound and Fury on the Delaware.” Essay in The Revealer, (April 5, 2017). Available at: http://bit.ly/2nOsj5a.
- “Etched in Eternity.” Essay in n+1, (March 1, 2017). Available at: http://bit.ly/2ocZS0y.
- “Trump’s Tlön.” Essay in n+1, (February 19, 2017). Available at: http://bit.ly/2mKMn7N.
- “New Praetorianism.” Essay in The Baffler, (February 17, 2017). Available at: http://bit.ly/2mKXRbq.
- “Private Suffering in Political Circumstances.” Essay in The Revealer, (February 7, 2017). Available at: http://bit.ly/2kY7ndg.
- “Brokenheartlands: Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers in Their Own Land.” Book review in The Revealer, (December 7, 2016). Available at: http://bit.ly/2hgNRYr.
- “On Bullshit News.” Essay in The Revealer, (November 28, 2016). Available at: http://bit.ly/2jwspQ9.
- “There Are Endurable Moments.” Essay in The Revealer, (November 11, 2016). Available at: http://bit.ly/2iHRqU2.
- “Stop Calling the United States a Banana Republic.” Essay, co-authored with Patrick Iber, in The Baffler. (November 7, 2016). Available at: http://bit.ly/2k42L5Z.
- “Cycles of Memory.” Interview with Randy R. Potts in The Revealer, (October 4, 2016). Available at: http://bit.ly/2d3lYzV.
- “Brave Moles and Hungry Ghosts: 9/11 Memento Mori.” Essay in The Revealer (September 9, 2016). Available at: http://bit.ly/2dLzrcP.
- “They’re Coming for the Ones You Love: My Weekend of Gun Training in the Desert.” Cover feature in The Nation Undertaken with support from The Nation Investigative Fund and The Puffin Foundation. (August 29 – September 5, 2016 Issue). Available at: http://bit.ly/2aAYMJT.
- “The American Soul is a Murderous Soul.” Essay in Foreign Policy, (August 10, 2016). Available at: http://atfp.co/2brQJPn.
- “Recoil Operation.” Essay in The New Inquiry, (July 11, 2016). Available at: http://bit.ly/29yl2od.
- “What Could Actually Help Us Reduce Gun Violence.” Essay in Upworthy, (June 30, 2016). Available at: http://u.pw/29meZ3W.
- “Trumpophasis: On What Cannot Be Said.” Essay in The Revealer, (June 23, 2016). Available at: http://bit.ly/29zl3oE.
- “Stirring Emotions, Shooting Blanks.” Op-Ed in The New York Daily News, Sunday Edition, (June 26, 2016). Available at: http://nydn.us/28Vfw9H.
- “Special Pleading: On the Identity Politics of ‘Blue Lives Matter.’” Essay in The Revealer, (May 24, 2016). Available at: http://bit.ly/29tNki7.
- “Freud and the American Death Drive.” Essay in The Los Angeles Review of Books Marginalia Channel, (May 7, 2016). http://bit.ly/1rDa9o1.
- “Why is Gun Control Such a Tricky Issue?” Essay in Upworthy, (April 26, 2016). Available at: http://u.pw/1YSgLd3.
- “The Gun Control We Deserve.” Essay in n+1, (April 21, 2016). Available at: http://bit.ly/1Wh2ebH.
- “Review: Considering Hate.” Book review in The Revealer, (December 22, 2015). Available at: http://bit.ly/29RSKDv.
- “God and Guns, Part II.” Report in The Revealer, November 19, 2015). Available at: http://bit.ly/29QTeK3.
- “God and Guns, Part I.” Essay in The Revealer, (September 25, 2015). Available at: http://bit.ly/29Lrk1w.
- “When the Disruptor is a Gun.” Report in The Trace. (September 25, 2015.) Available at: http://bit.ly/1LMp6LV.
- “Oath Keeper Elaborates on Vision for Open Carry March in Ferguson.” Report in The Trace, (August 25, 2015). Available at: http://bit.ly/1EikafM.
- “Meet the Open Carry Activist Running for Texas State Senate.” Report in The Trace, (August 13, 2015). Available at: http://bit.ly/1PnzokM.
- “The Sense of Senselessness.” Essay in The Los Angeles Review of Books Marginalia Channel, (July 24, 2015). Available at: http://bit.ly/1CZqxUN.
- “What the Whataburger Flap Revealed About the Self-Identities of Open-Carry Activists.” Essay in The Trace, (July 22, 2015). Available at: http://bit.ly/1Ijck5B.
- “The Sometimes Tragic Physics of Celebratory July 4th” Essay in The Trace, (July 2, 2015). Available at: http://bit.ly/1NBJOfg.
- “Data Shows That Americans Wanted to Talk About Guns After Charleston — Until Confederate Flag Debate Heated Up.” Report in The Trace, (June 29, 2015). Available at: http://bit.ly/1NuizTU.
- “The Psychology of an Ethnic Fraud.” Essay in The Daily Beast, (June 13, 2015). Available at: http://thebea.st/1L53IOU.
- “Shooting in the Name Of.” Essay in The Revealer, (May 5, 2015). Available at: http://bit.ly/29GQUTz.
- “Twitter’s Outrage Machine Must Be Stopped – But Justine Sacco is the Wrong Poster Child” Op-Ed in The Washington Post’s Post Everything. (February 24, 2015). Available at: http://wapo.st/1ApIrfL.
- “The Masculine Mistake.” Op-Ed in The New York Daily News, Sunday Edition. (November 16, 2014). Available at: http://nydn.us/1xKN7v0.
- “Mary-Jane Rubenstein’s Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse.” Book Review in The Revealer, (October 22, 2014). Available at: http://bit.ly/29TaSeU.
- “What Do Guns Say?” Op-Ed in The New York Times, (May 4, 2014). Available at: http://nyti.ms/1fJhfRx.
- “At the Gun Show, Family Businesses and Angry Young Men.” The Daily Beast, (April 24, 2013). Available at: http://thebea.st/1dxEIip.
- “Why I Gave Up My Guns.” Op-Ed in The New York Daily News, Sunday Edition, (January 11, 2013). Available at: http://nydn.us/JgApyt.