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Research Interests

My dissertation recovers a market socialist tendency in the United States, one that has embedded itself within a predominantly liberal discourse. It engages with an array of thinkers, some well-known (like Thomas Paine and Henry George) and others unjustifiably neglected (like the economists Esther Lowenthal and Abram Lincoln Harris).

Dissertation

"The Invisible Left Hand: Adam Smith and the Liberal Socialist Tradition in America, 1776-1926"

Education

MA, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳, 2013
BA, Emory University, 2005

Selected Publications

• “Yoram Hazony and the Hysterics of Reaction,” The Bias Magazine (online), September 30, 2020, .
• “Daniel Ellsberg: The nuclear war planner who knew too much,” review of The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, by Daniel Ellsberg, The Independent (online), September 23, 2020, .
• “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” review of The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, by Daniel Ellsberg, Raritan: A Quarterly Review, Summer 2020, 27-33.
• "How Stacey Abrams inadvertently started a conversation about American militarism," Responsible Statecraft (online), June 1, 2020, .
• "The Long Arm of the Law," review of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing, by Stuart Schrader, The Baffler (online), January 27, 2020, .
• "Veterans: Pull the Troops Out of Afghanistan Now," The New York Times (online), November 11, 2019, .
• “Beyond Bowe Bergdahl,” review of American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan, by Matt Farwell and Michael Ames, The Nation (online), October 23, 2019, .
• “Modern Warfare’s Secrets: An Interview with Lyle Rubin,” interviewed by Slawek Blich in Dissent (online), June 6, 2019, .
• "The Paranoid, Reactionary Dreams of Ronald Reagan,” review of Reagan: An American Journey, by Bob Spitz,Jacobin (online), March 16, 2019, .
• "Ilhan Omar is a Threat to US Empire," Jacobin (online), February 23, 2019, .
• "Under the Boot," review of The Corrosion of Conservatism, by Max Boot,The Baffler (online), February 12, 2019, .
• "Trump is losing military voters. Here's how Democrats can win them over," Washington Post (online), December 31, 2018, .
• "Base Culture," n+1, 33 (Winter), 85-95.
• “‘A torrent of ghastly revelations’: what military service taught me about America,” The Guardian (online), December 18, 2018, . 
• “The Forever War's Cheerleaders,” The Nation (online), September 20, 2018, .
• "It's Time for a Little Perspective on Russia," Current Affairs (online), July 20, 2018, .
• "Why Anticapitalist Conservatism Fails," review of Why Liberalism Failed, by Patrick Deneen, Jacobin (online), July 2, 2018, .
• “The Left's Embrace of Empire,” The Nation (online), March 28, 2018, .
• "Vietnam Reckoning," review of The Vietnam War, by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, The Christian Century, January 17, 2018, 22-26.
• "Capitalism and Freedom," review of Conservatives Against Capitalism: From the Industrial Revolution to Globalization, by Peter Kolozi, Jacobin (online), December 13, 2017, .
• "A Veterans Day Plea from a Marine: Please, stop revering us," New York Daily News (online), November 11, 2017, .
• From Our Foreign Wars to Our Domestic Massacres, Violence Begets Violence,” The Daily Beast, October 10, 2017, .
• “Appeal for a Reinvigorated Veterans Movement,” New Labor Forum (online), April 13, 2017, .
• “As a Former Marine, America’s War-Making Haunts Me—It Should Haunt Our Politicians Too,” The Nation (online), April 12, 2016, .
• “Who Wants to Save Capitalism?,” Jacobin (online), October 26, 2015, .
• Review of The New Prophets of Capital, by Nicole Aschoff, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (IVC), August 25, 2015, .
• Interview of Jacob Bridge, “A conscientious objector,” Aeon, April 10, 2015, .
• Review of Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis, by Benjamin Kunkel, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (IVC), September 12, 2014, .
• “A Former Marine Explains All the Weapons of War Being Used by Police in Ferguson,” The Nation (online), August 20, 2014, .
•  “Por una radicalidad realista,” translated by Mariano Grynszpan in Nueva Sociedad, September-October 2013, 96-106.
•  “A Realistic Radicalism,” Dissent (online), May 28, 2013, .
•  “Warrior Critics,” review of A People’s History of the U.S. Military: Ordinary Soldiers Reflect on Their Experience of War, from the American Revolution to Afghanistan, by Michael Bellesiles, Dissent (online), September 17, 2012, .
• “A return to seriousness,” Aeon, September 13, 2012, .
• “On James Livingston and the New Intellectuals,” Dissent (online), July 11, 2012, .
• “Afghanistan Diary,” CONSEQUENCE magazine, Spring 2012, 71-86.
• “How the Left can Win the Military, and Save America’s Soul,” Dissent (online), April 9, 2012, .

Selected Publications

Presentations

• “A Not-So-Strange Case of Liberal Socialism: Adam Smith and Abolitionist Thought in the United States,” presented at the 2019 RadicalxChange Conference, The College for Creative Studies, Taubman Center, Detroit, MI: March 22-24, 2019.
• “The Economist’s Second Smith: Between Market Liberalism and Market Socialism, 1843 to the Present,” presented at the 2016 Histories of Capitalism, 2.0 Conference, Cornell University: September 29-October 1, 2016.
• “Adam Smith and the Neoliberal Presidency,” presented at the 2015 Iowa Conference on Presidential Politics (ICPP), Dordt College, Sioux Center, IA: October 29-31, 2015.
• “Toward an Ecological Public: Mining a Third Way American Politics in the Work of Aaron Sachs,” presented at the 2015 Society for U.S. Intellectual History (S-USIH) Conference, Washington, D.C.: October 15-18, 2015.
• “Undemocratic Education: An Arendtian Analysis of the No Excuses Charter School Movement,” presented at the 8th Annual Conference on Equity and Social Justice, SUNY Buffalo State, Buffalo, NY: March 7, 2015.

Teaching

• History 191: Vietnam: The American War, Co-Instructor, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳, Spring 2016
• History 202: Health, Medicine, and Social Reform, Teaching Assistant for Dr. Theodore Brown, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳, Spring 2015
• History 225: The First World War: A Centennial History, Teaching Assistant/ Section Leader for Dr. Stewart Weaver, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳, Fall 2014

Honors

• 2016 Meyers Graduate Teaching Award, which is given to “the graduate who has demonstrated excellence in teaching”
• 2015 Donald Marks “Dexter Perkins” Prize, which is given “to perpetuate the name of Dexter Perkins and is to encourage and assist a worthy student who is majoring in history in his/her cultural  and intellectual development”
• Folger Shakespeare Library, Grant-in-Aid for “Debating Capitalism: Early Modern Political Economies” seminar, 2015