Peer-reviewed Articles

“New Sincerity and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis: Benjamin Kunkel’s Indecision and Heidi Julavits’ The Uses of Enchantment.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 24 January 2018, 1-13.

“Physiology Gone Wild: Oliver Sacks’ Clinical Tales and Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower.”  Journal of Science Fiction. July 2018, Vol. 2, No. 3, 7-19.

“Readerly Transference: Psychoanalysis Via Comics in Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother?ImageText: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies. June 2018. Vol. 10, No. 1.

Features/Editorials

Religion & Politics - “The Eugenics Roots of Evangelical Family Values”

Salon - “Eugenics, Racism, and the Forced Sterilization of an Heiress”

The New Republic - “The Conservative War On the Black Church”

The New Republic - “The Far Right’s Dangerous Fertility Myths”

The New Republic - “Ron DeSantis and His Christian Crusaders Are Stealing Trump’s Thunder”

The New Republic - “The Roots of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Sex Abuse Scandal”

The New Republic - “The Life Coaches Fueling the Exvangelical Movement”

The New Republic - “How Western Nonfiction of the Muslim World Fuels War and Retribution”

The New Republic - “The Post-Trump Crack-up of the Evangelical Community”

The New Republic - “When Cops Kill White People, Black Lives Still Matter”

The New Republic - “The Nonprofit Grifters Who Want a Cut of the Coronavirus Bailout”

The New Republic - “The Toxic Nationalism of the Pharmaceutical Industry”

The New Republic - “Big Pharma is Pushing a Big Lie”

The Atlantic - “Steel Magnolias is a Beloved Weepy With a Dark Side”

The Washington Post - “How Dismantling Welfare Continues the Legacy of Eugenics”

The Washington Post - “Drug Prices Are Killing Diabetes. ‘Walmart’ insulin isn’t the solution”

The Progressive - “How America’s ‘Boostraps’ Myth Hurts Farmers—and All of Us”

Contingent Magazine - “Lovers Under an Apple Tree”

Coda Story - “How a Disinformation Campaign Wiped Out Synthetic Insulin’s Deadly Effects”

Lady Science - “Against Medical Advice: Priscilla White and Diabetic Pregnancy”

Lady Science - “Sex, Science, and the End of the World”

Narratively - “The Curious Case of the Socialite Who Sterilized Her Daughter”

Longreads - “We Still Don’t Know How to Navigate the Eugenics Movement”

Book Reviews

New York Times - Kate Winkler Dawson’s The Ghost Club

The Progressive - Kyla Schuller’s The Trouble With White Women: A Counter-history of Feminism

Washington Independent Review of Books - Amia Srinivasan’s The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-first Century

Public Books - Narrative in Social Work Practice (Eds. Ann Burack-Weiss et al)

Marginalia Review of Books - K. A. Johnson’s Medical Stigmata

Marginalia Review of Books - Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind

Marginalia Review of Books - Wendy Kline’s Coming Home

Marginalia Review of Books - Thomas Kidd’s Who is An Evangelical?

Interviews (As interviewer)

ASAP/J - “The Authority of Fiction.” A conversation with Monique Truong.

Sojourners - “Journalism Needs a Wider Scope on Religion.” A conversation with Ed Simon.

Interviews (As subject)

Ms. Magazine - “Girls and Their Monsters.” A conversation with Eleanor Bader.

Inside Edition - “The Tragic and Disturbing Story of Ann Cooper Hewitt.”

The Progressive - “The Lasting Impact of Eugenics.” A conversation with Eleanor Bader.

Rewire News Group - “What the Sterilization of a Wealthy White Woman Reveals About Eugenics.” A conversation with Julia Métraux.

Mary Kate Leonard - Interview on The Unfit Heiress

Media Appearances

Inside Edition - “The Tragic Story of Ann Cooper Hewitt, the Forcibly Sterilized Heiress”

Criminal podcast - “Unfit.” A conversation with host Phoebe Judge.

Straight White American Jesus podcast - “The Eugenicists Origins of Evangelical Family Values.” A conversation with Brad Onishi.

Talk Nerdy podcast - “Forced Sterilization.” A conversation with Cara Santa Maria.