Essays

New York Times

2019 The Perils of Abstraction
2018 What Is the Future of Speculative Journalism?
2016 How to Live without Irony (for Real, this Time)
2016 My Syllabus, My Self (עברית)
2016 Clinging to Our ‘Roots’
2015 The Conference Manifesto (Deutsch) (עברית)
2014 In Praise of Disregard
2013 The Essayification of Everything
2012 Guns and the Decline of the Young Man
2012 How to Live without Irony (français) (עברית)

Essays


2021 “Can Culture Degenerate?” (Aeon Magazine)
2021 “Simone Weil for Americans” (Los Angeles Review of Books)
2021 “Dirty Essays, Clean Essays” (Public Books)
2018 “Strange and Intelligent: On Simone Weil” (Aeon Magazine)
2017 “Thank You, President Trump” (Philosophical Salon, Los Angeles Review of Books)
2015 “Barthes’ Silken Legacy” (The New Yorker)
2015 “November Thirteenth” (Essay Daily)
2015 “The Other Serious Playlist” (Largehearted Boy)
2015 “On Awkwardness” (Guernica)
2015 “Bill and Ted’s Antihistorical, Neoliberal Adventure” (Post45)
2015 “You Will Never Be Able to Thank Your Mother Enough” (LitHub)
2013 “Irony as a Blanket” (Tank Magazine)