Here's a link to my piece in The New Republic about the silly narcissism of Instagram and its "influencers" who exploit the loveliness of the…
In the peculiarly American habit of “going postal” – gunning down fellow citizens randomly – a troubling pattern emerges: the gunmen always and every time…
(Orion Magazine, 2010) WILD COYOTES HAVE SETTLED in or around every major city in the United States, thriving as never before, and in New York…
(CounterPunch, April 28, 2017) I walked up the mountain in the howling snow and the drifts and the flashing of the moon behind the clouds,…
(CounterPunch, Feb. 1, 2007) The TV-B-Gone, which fits in the palm of the hand, is a universal remote whose sole purpose and power is to…
(CounterPunch, March 10, 2017) Every human in my immediate view is hunched over a screen. It is something out of a horror movie. You who…
(Vanity Fair, Nov. 2008) When her son was sentenced to 25 years for Brooklyn’s 2003 “grid kid” slaying, Doreen Quinn Giuliano was sure he’d been…
My 2017 piece in Pacific Standard on the madness of unlimited economic growth on a tiny planet: https://psmag.com/magazine/fallacy-of-endless-growth
(CounterPunch, March 27, 2017) The storm is coming. Out the door the winds rage. The weather service predicts two feet around my house in the…
(CounterPunch, Sept. 10 2018) Last week a man I’ll call Guido Bartalucci, a former Trump White House insider, asked to meet with me at a…