On Fatphobia (2022--)

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Diet Culture is Unhealthy. It's Also Immoral New York Times, January 3 2022

What if “Food Noise” is Just… Hunger? New York Times, December 29 2023

Growing Up, My Body Was a Punch Line The Cut, January 4 2024

The Five Words that Helped Me Accept My Body Time, January 9 2024
 
Society Preaches Kindness—Unless You’re Fat. Why is Fatphobia Still on the Rise? The Guardian, January 12 2024

Medical Fatphobia Does Serious Harm to Patients Washington Post, January 31 2024
 
People Who Moralize Fatness—But Not Other “Risky” Behaviors—Are Telling On Themselves Jezebel, February 9 2024

On Misogyny (2016--)
How to Lose Her Voice: On Testimonial Injustice and the Ways Women are Silenced The Monthly, May 2021

What Sarah Everard's Murder Illuminates--And Might Obscure The Atlantic, March 17 2021

Female Victims are People in their Own Right The Guardian, February 16 2021

Women Can Have a Little Power, as a Treat New York Times, July 28 2020

Brett Kavanaugh and America’s ‘Himpathy’ Reckoning New York Times, September 2018
 
Open your ears—and your mind—to Christine Blasey Ford, CNN, September 2018
 
Reconsider the Lobster (Review Essay on Jordan B. Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos), Times Literary Supplement, May 2018
 
Eric Schneiderman and the Meaning of Strangulation New York Times, May 2018
 
Salma Hayek was Destroyed by the Same Shame that Protected Harvey Weinstein Newsweek, December 2017

Good Girls: How Powerful Men Get Away with Sexual Predation 
Huffington Post, March 2017

Entitled Shame, Family Annihilators, and Toxic Masculinity Huffington Post, October 2016

The Logic of Misogyny
Lead Essay for a Forum in the Boston Review
July/August 2016
My reply to forum commentators

Sympathy for the Rapist:
What the Stanford Case Teaches
Huffington Post, June 2016

​Where Anything Goes
Or, What Do We Do with Pornography? Review of
Nancy Bauer's How to Do Things with Pornography 
Times Literary Supplement, April 2016

​Forgiving Masters: On Bernard Williams' Moral Luck
Written and published as part of Cornell's "Transformative Humanities" Lecture Series, March 2016

See also select political commentary, here. 

​On Trigger Warnings and Campus Culture (2015)

Why I Use Trigger Warnings ​New York Times, September 2015
A Quick Heads-Up The New Philosopher, April 2016 (a follow-up to my New York Times ​piece)
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​When "Free Speech" Becomes a Political Weapon
Chronicle of Higher Ed, with Jason Stanley, November 2015
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​On Humanity (2014)

​​In Ferguson and Beyond, Punishing Humanity ​
New York Times, October 2014