Selected Journalism

Harper’s 

The Machine Breaker (November 2023)

Amusement Parks (April 2021)

With the Rebels of the Gilets Jaunes of France (August 2019)

The Rogue Agency (March 2016)

A Biocentrist History of the West (February 2016)

The Great Republican Land Heist (February 2015)

Razing Arizona (April 2014)

Monopoly is Theft: The antimonopolist history of the world’s most popular board game (October 2012)

The Albany Handshake (May 2010)

They Shoot Buffalo Dont They (June 2008)

Meet the New Boss (December 2004)

New York Times

Europe’s Crackdown on Environmental Dissent is Silencing Voices the World Needs to Hear (August 2024)

This Land Was Your Land: Federal agencies have been captured by the very industries they should be regulating (July 2019)

A Trojan Horse Threatens the Nation’s Parks (Jan. 2018)

Los Angeles Times

The Internet made us stupid.  AI promises to make it worse (Sept. 2025)

Collapseologists are warning humanity that business-as-usual will make the Earth uninhabitable (Jan. 2021)

What Josie and I Learned from Wilbur the Pig, Marmota, and Life and Death in a Small Garden (Aug. 2020)

Coronavirus has something to teach us about how to save the planet — by staying put (March 2020)

Occupy Wall Street: The New Populists? (Oct. 2011)

Recent articles (in reverse chrono order, 2024-2026)

2026

“Eject Elbit Is Pushing Capital One to Drop $90M Loan to Israel’s Largest Weapons Manufacturer,” Drop Site News, 1.26.26

“Up the Mountain in a Windstorm with John Muir,” Romanticon, 1.18.26

“Reservoir Hogs,” The Baffler, 1.6.2026

2025

“Two Billion Dead at 2C Warming?”, CounterPunch, 11.26.25

“Is Progress a Four-Letter Word?”, Truthdig, 11.26.25

“How to Monkeywrench a Genocide,” Drop Site News, 11.14.25

“Letters to an Ecosaboteur, from the Catskill Mountains,” Romanticon, 11.12.25

“Death Before Inconvenience,” Truthdig, 10.1.25

“The Roading of the Last Wild Places,” Truthdig, 9.16.25

“When All Protest is Terrorism,” Mother Jones, 9.11.25

“The Mad Religion of Technological Salvation,” CounterPunch, 8.22.25

“From Joseph Smith to Mike Lee: Two Centuries of Mormon Land Grabbing,” Truthdig, 7.14.25

“Burn Down the House,” The Baffler, 4.8.25

“Wrenching the Ranchers,” The Baffler, 4.1.25

“Letter to the Sun Belt,” CounterPunch, 3.26.25

2024

“Why Americans Appear to Love the UnitedHealthcare Assassin,” CounterPunch, 12.13.24

“Eat, Pray, Pollute: On the Needed Death of Tourism,” CounterPunch, 9.30.24

“The Unbearable Anthropocentrism of Our World in Data,” CounterPunch, 7.26.24

“Working for the Climate Clampdown in British Courts,” Truthdig, 7.9.24

“The Whole Dam Truth,” Truthdig, 4.25.24

“Israel Using AI to Write Kill Lists in Gaza,” Truthdig, 4.8.24

“Clowns to the Left of Me, Fascists to the Right,” CounterPunch, 3.8.24

“The Seasons of Death for Wild Horses,” Truthdig, 1.18.24

“BLM, Get Your Hands Off Calf Creek Falls,” CounterPunch, 1.4.24

“Climate Death Spiral: The Two-Degree Future Is Now,” TruthDig, 1.2.24

Selected other pieces

“The Fallacy of Endless Economic Growth,” Pacific Standard Magazine

“The Curse of Bigness,” Orion Magazine

“The Reign of the One Percenters: Income inequality and the death of culture in New York City,” Orion Magazine

“Is clear cutting U.S. forests good for wildlife?” National Geographic

“Logging is destroying Southern forests — and dividing U.S. environmentalists,” Grist

“Taming the Wilderness,” Orion Magazine

“The Forest Nearest Me,” CounterPunch

“The Music of the Waters,” CounterPunch

“The Beagle in Me, the Child in Snoopy,” CounterPunch

“The Sane Society?” CounterPunch

“Let’s Blow up Luxury Emissions,” CounterPunch

“New Dog in Town,” Orion Magazine

“Cat Eyes,” Earth Island Journal

“Grand Folly, or, How to Overrun the Grand Canyon with Tourists,” Earth Island Journal

“Cities and Green Orthodoxy,” CounterPunch

“Wreckreation, Public Lands, and the Fecal Timebomb,” CounterPunch

“Mother Justice,” Vanity Fair

“High Frequency: We are now exposed to electromagnetic radio frequencies 24 hours a day. Welcome to the largest human experiment ever,” Earth Island Journal

“Warning: Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous to Your Health,” GQ Magazine