The new Fifth Estate includes my review of Clay Risen’s Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America. The review is print-only, thus far. Subscribe today!
Mrs. Orwell (August 2026)
At The Comics Journal, I have a review of Andrea Chalupa and Brahm Revel’s Mrs. Orwell, relating it to the growing body of recent scholarship on George Orwell’s first wife, Eileen.
Academic Difficulties (July 2026)
The current issue of the Journal of Working-Class Studies includes an essay of mine about academic writing — why it is so often terrible and how in can be approved. Naturally I included Orwell’s six rules from “Politics and the English Language.”
Platypus Video (June 2026)
Back in April I was part of a panel discussion organized by the Platypus Society, on the topic of “Reform, Resistance, and Revolution.” Video of the event is now online.
