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  • "The Vast Dechurching and the Paradox of Christianity's Decline," Hedgehog Review, Fall, 2024.
  • "Kamala Harris' Gun Rhetoric is Reckless," New Republic, September 30, 2024.
  • "If we can't change American Gun Laws, we should change American Gun Culture," Zocalo Public Square, November 6, 2023.
  • "The Courage to Forget: Not Everything is meant to be remembered," Hedgehog Review, October 26, 2023.
  • "Why doesn't the Church address Gun Violence with the same urgency as Abortion?" America Magazine, 7/5/23.
  • "Our Epidemic of Mass Shootings is Traumatizing a Generation and Threatening Democracy," Jacobin, 6/6/2023.
  • "Peter Thiel has no Clue what makes America Great," The New Republic, 11/7/22.
  • "World Data Privacy Day gets something very wrong," Slate, 1/28/2022.
  • "The Political Risks of Big Data Dominance," The New Statesman, 11/21/2021.
  • "Continuous Health Monitoring: Greater Self Knowledge, or TMI?" The Hastings Center Bioethics Forum, 11/15/2021.
  • "Organization, not Privacy, is the Foundation of Liberty," Liberal Currents, 11/2/2021.
  • "Apple can't protect your Privacy. But You can." LA Times, 8/6/2021.
  • "What if Facial Recognition Technology were in Everyone's Hands?" Slate, 8/5/2021.
  • "The Hubris of Big Data," LA Review of Books, 5/24/2021.
  • "Smart Toilets and the Endless Spread of Health Surveillance," Current Affairs, 5/12/2021.
  • "Know Thyself, but don't think there's an App for that," Wall Street Journal, 4/10/2021.
  • "The Infrastructure Bill is a Chance to Make our Public Spaces Beautiful," Jacobin, 4/7/2021.
  • "Privacy may be under Threat, but its Protection alone isn't enough to preserve Civil Liberties," The Conversation, 3/23/2021
  • "Privacy is the Virtue that Americans love the most and understand the least," America Magazine, 3/18/2021.
  • "Privacy is Doomed. What's new?" LA Review of Books, 2/21/2021.
  • "Privacy's Last Stand," San Francisco Chronicle, 2/14/2021.
  • "Why Privacy might not be worth protecting," Zocalo Public Square, 2/4/2021.
  • "De Wapenlobby in de VS speelt al jaren met Vuur,"  De Standaard (Belgium), 1/15/2021.
  • “The Gun-Rights Movement Fed America’s Insurrectionist Fever Dreams,” The Atlantic, 1/11/2021.
  • “We’re Outsourcing Our Self-Awareness to Silicon Valley,” The New Republic, 12/24/2020.
  • “The Problem With 'Privacy',” Jacobin, 11/18/2020.
  • "What if Privacy Matters Less than we think?" The Philosophical Salon, 10/19/2020.
  • "Have Liberals Learned Nothing from the Age of Trump?" Common Dreams, 10/9/2020.
  • “What we lose when we teach—and learn—online,” American Magazine, 6/30/2020.
  • “America’s Cop Problem Is Also a Gun Problem,” The New Republic, 6/24/2020.
  • “The Great Irony of America’s Armed Anti-Lockdown Protesters,” The Atlantic, 5/13/2020.
  • “Should Work Be Passion, or Duty?” The New York Times, 9/2/2019.
  • “Love on the Line,” Slate, 2/14/2019.
  • “The Scandal of Democracy,” The Philosophical Salon, 4/15/2019.

  • “For the NRA, ‘freedom’ means being heavily armed and scared to death,” The Washington Post, 2/23/2018.
  • “Shame On You: How Baring and Sharing Online Increases Social Conformity,” Psyche, 2017.
  • “Why is climate change such a hard sell in the U.S.?” Salon, 6/25/2017.
  • “Trump administration embraces Ayn Rand's disdain for the masses,” Newsweek, 4/8/2017.
  • “Commentary: The NRA's gun market crisis,” Chicago Tribune, 3/21/2017.
  • “On Valentine's Day, What Plato Can Teach You About Finding a Soulmate,” The Conversation, 2/13/2017.
  • “Rule by the lowest common denominator? It's baked into democracy's design,” The Conversation, 1/10/2017.
  • “Get real, campus liberals, and prepare to battle Trump,” Boston Globe, 12/12/2016.
  • “Half the firearms in the U.S. are owned by 3% of adults, and that means trouble for the NRA,” Los Angeles Times, 12/1/2016.
  • “The NRA is Conducting a Radical Experiment on Gun Rights—and Americans are Willing Guinea Pigs,” QUARTZ, June 23, 2016.
  • “Why Don't We Have Better Gun Laws? Because Most of Us Don't Care Enough About Guns,” The Washington Post, June 23, 2016.
  • “Donald Trump Is Just the Scare We Need: Here's How a Toxic Despot Might Reinvigorate Our Democracy,” Salon, May 19, 2016.
  • “How Guns Could Censor College Classrooms,” The Atlantic, March 2016.
  • “Malls of America: They May Masquerade as Public Spaces - But They Just Want Us to Shop,” Salon, Nov. 27, 2015.
  • “The NRA Wants Us to Live in Fear: The Demented, Highly Profitable and Deeply Cynical Logic Behind Arming Everyone”, Salon, Nov 1, 2015.
  • “New gun laws pass often in the United States. But they usually make guns easier to get.” America, The Washington Post, October 6, 2015.
  • “Our Armed Society,” America, The National Catholic Review, September 14, 2015.
  • “We Can't Advance the Goals of Black Lives Matter Without Addressing Gun Control,” The Washington Post, August 28, 2015.
  • “Fox News and the NRA are Ill: 'The Gun Rights People Have Been Deceptive in Using These Incidents for Their Own Benefit',” Salon, June 19, 2015.
  • “The Right's Big Gun Lie: Debunking the Phony Case that More Guns Will Stop Crime,” Salon, May 24, 2015.
  • “The NRA’s sinister project: Turn America into a “shoot first” society ,” Salon, May 12, 2015.
  • “How Gun Rights Harm the Rule of Law,” The Atlantic, April 1, 2015.
  • “Campus Carry vs. Faculty Rights,” Inside Higher Ed, March 19, 2015,
  • “Drones and the Democracy Disconnect,” NY Times, September 14, 2014.
  • “Locke and Load: The Fatal Error of the ‘Stand Your Ground' Philosophy,” NY Times, February 23, 2014.
  • “The Freedom of an Armed Society,” Opinionator, The New York Times, December 16, 2012.
  • “Deluded Individualism,” NY Times, August 19, 2012.
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