BOOKS
Virtue in an Age of Identity Politics: A Stoic Approach to Social Justice
SUBSTACK
Introducing the Lincoln Letter, March 18, 2024
The ”Bloodbath” Nothingburger, March 18, 2024
President Biden’s Good Friday Proclamation Is Not Part of a Regime Conspiracy, March 31, 2024
MattTaibbi Is Wrong to Ignore the ”Sins (or Threats) from the Right”, March 31, 2024
INTERVIEWS
Mihai Nadin: Disruptor of Science, Merion West, January 15, 2023
Phyllis Chesler: Modern Feminism’s Failure to Condemn Hamas, December 5, 2023
Richard Kemp: Israel’s Existential Campaign to Destroy Hamas, December 8, 2023
DEBATES
Should America’s Future Be More Capitalist or Socialist? Debate with Ben Burgis, July 2019
ESSAYS
The Sophistry of the New Right Activism, Merion West, February 8, 2024
“Neoliberalism” Is a Delusion of Marxists, Merion West, January 15, 2024
Yes, January 6 Was an Insurrection, Merion West, January 2, 2024
The Fatalistic Cynicism of Derrick Bell’s Interest Convergence Thesis, Medium, December 18, 2023
How Scholars and Activists Have Reinvented Our Understanding of Racism, Merion West, December 7, 2023
The Myth of “Neoliberalism”, Medium, November 9, 2023
The Problems with “Microaggression” Theory, Medium, November 9, 2023
The Problems with “Diversity Training”, Merion West, November 8, 2023
Harvard Needs to Be Consistent on the Virtue of Free Speech, Merion West, October 16, 2023
Would Socrates Be Anti-Woke? A Stoic Critique of Identity Politics, Merion West, March 19, 2023
The Greatness of Ronald Reagan, Merion West, June 23, 2022
Karl Marx’s Theory of Primitive Accumulation Is Wrong, Merion West, May 23, 2022
The Many Problems with Race Reparations in the United States, Part 2, Merion West, April 16, 2022
The Many Problems with Race Reparations in the U.S., Part 1, Merion West, April 7, 2022
What Marx Got Wrong about Value, Part 2, Merion West, January 1, 2022
What Marx Got Wrong about Value, Part 1, Merion West, December 27, 2021
Why Culture Matters for Racial Disparities, Quillette, September 6, 2021
What Can Stoic Philosophy Teach Us About Being Triggered?, co-authored with Kai Whiting, Areo Magazine, June 7, 2021
Stoicism Offers an Antidote to Cancel Culture, co-authored with Kai Whiting, Merion West, May 14, 2021
What Ibram X. Kendi Gets Wrong about Reparations, Areo Magazine, March 29, 2021
When John F. Kennedy Saved the World, Part 2, Merion West, February 27, 2021
When John F. Kennedy Saved the World, Part 1, Merion West, February 22, 2021
Forgiving All Debt Is a Step in the Wrong Direction, Merion West, February 5, 2021
The Future of Bitcoin, Arc Digital, January 29, 2021
Pragmatism, Empiricism, and the Meaning of Truth, Areo Magazine, January 13, 2021
The Trump Putsch, Merion West, January 6, 2021
Ibram Kendi’s Thesis Could Use a Lot More Rigor, Part 2, Merion West, November 12, 2020
Ibram Kendi’s Thesis Could Use a Lot More Rigor, Part 1, Merion West, November 7, 2020
Queer Theory and the Case for Marital Infidelity, Areo Magazine, August 20, 2020
The Truth According to Social Justice – A Review of ‘Cynical Theories’, Quillette, July 20, 2020
The Orwellian Dystopia of Robin DiAngelo’s PhD Dissertation, Areo Magazine, July 14, 2020
The Insidious Subtext of “Systemic Racism”, The Agonist Journal, Summer 2020
The False Dichotomy in Kimberle Crenshaw’s Intersectionality, Merion West, June 16, 2020
What critics of ‘Neoliberalism’ get wrong about markets, Culturico, June 16, 2020
Dear White People: Please Do Not Read Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility”, Arc Digital, June 13, 2020
The Flaws in White Fragility Theory: A Primer, New Discourses, June 8, 2020
The Dangers of Campus Speech Codes: Revisiting the Water Buffalo Affair, Merion West, June 7, 2020
Colin Kaepernick and a False Dichotomy, Merion West, June 6, 2020
As the Word “Racism” Loses Its Meaning, Merion West, June 2, 2020
What Soren Kierkegaard Can Teach the Left About Ayn Rand, Merion West, April 7, 2020
There Is No Free Lunch: Landlords Are Not Leeches, Merion West, April 2, 2020
In Reply to Ben Burgis: Capitalism, Socialism, and Marx, Merion West, March 26, 2020
Robin DiAngelo Is Correct About the Psychic Weight of Race, Merion West, March 24, 2020
Estimating the Economic Damage from COVID-19, Arc Digital, March 23, 2020
Bernie and AOC Are Wrong about What the Fed Is Doing, Arc Digital, March 16, 2020
Is Whiteness Invisible to White People? Areo Magazine, March 3, 2020
Civility Without Squeamishness: Making Impossible Conversations Possible, Areo Magazine, co-authored with Matthew McManus, February 28, 2020
How ‘White Fragility’ Theory Turns Classrooms Into Race-Charged Power Struggles, The Federalist, co-authored with Chris Paslay, February 28, 2020 (discussed further on the Dan Proft radio show)
Shakespeare and Social Justice Ideology: Othello Is Not About Racism, Merion West, February 26, 2020
Don’t Blame Neoliberalism for Post-Modern Conservatism, Quillette, February 23, 2020
Lee Jussim Is Right to Be Skeptical about Stereotype Threat, Quillette, February 22, 2020
How Critical Theory Came to Be Skeptical of Science, Areo Magazine, February 12, 2020
Jordan Peterson Is Not Entirely Wrong about “Postmodern Neo-Marxism”, Areo Magazine, January 9, 2020
Is a Wealth Tax Confiscatory?, Arc Digital, January 6, 2020
How Individualism and Social Constructivism Can Be Reconciled: Part 2, Areo Magazine, December 13, 2019
How Individualism and Social Constructivism Can Be Reconciled: Part 1, Areo Magazine, December 6, 2019
Why Karl Marx Is Wrong, Merion West, December 5, 2019
An Economic Theory of Whiteness, Areo Magazine, November 26, 2019 (discussed in the Tea for Two podcast with Iona Italia)
In Defense of the War on Terror: A Response to Ben Burgis, Areo Magazine, October 25, 2019
Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility Theory Falls Prey to Logical Fallacies, Merion West, October 16, 2019
White Fragility Theory Is a Bullying Rhetorical Tactic, The Agonist, Fall 2019
The Terms “Capitalism” and “Socialism” Don’t Matter. What Matters Is Human Flourishing, Arc Digital, October 7, 2019
Critical Theory from the Frankfurt School to Foucault, Areo Magazine, September 27, 2019
Was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Right about the “Scarcity Mindset”?, Arc Digital, September 19, 2019
It’s So Very Hard to Know What Will Happen if the Minimum Wage Increases to $15, Arc Digital, August 23, 2019
Whiteness Studies: An Insidious Ideology, The Agonist, Summer 2019
Economic Inequality Is a Problem. That Does Not Mean We’re in a New Gilded Age, Arc Digital, June 14, 2019
Why We Should Read Machiavelli, Quillette, June 1, 2019
Personal Narrative at the Expense of Fact: Ariel Saramandi’s Essay on the Alt Right, Areo Magazine, May 26, 2019
White Fragility Theory Mistakes Correlation for Causation, Areo Magazine, May 10, 2019
Whiteness Studies and the Theory of White Fragility Are Based on a Logical Fallacy, Areo Magazine, April 25, 2019 (discussed further in an interview and podcast with Benjamin Boyce)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Misconstrues One of the Most Basic Principles of Economics , Arc Digital, April 18, 2019
Jussie Smollett and the Scourge of Schadenfreude, Areo Magazine, March 25, 2019
The Economic Illiteracy of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Quillette, March 22, 2019
Modern Monetary Theory: A Progressive Recipe for Central Planning, Arc Digital, March 4, 2019
Stoic, Toxic, or More Confusion?, The Good Men Project, February 16, 2019 (discussed further in a radio interview with Marriage and Family Therapist Lesli Doares)
Social Justice and the Critique of Reason, Areo Magazine, February 4, 2019
The Theory of White Fragility: Scholarship or Proselytization? , Areo Magazine, January 25, 2019
How My Toxic Stoicism Helped Me Cope with Brain Cancer, Quillette, January 23, 2019 (Explored further in Stoicism and Coping with Brain Cancer: Interview with Daily Stoic )
What Can a Jeopardy! Episode Tell Us about White Racial Illiteracy?, Arc Digital, December 29, 2018
The Epistemological Problem with White Fragility Theory, Areo Magazine, December 21, 2018
Thirty Years after the Closing of the American Mind, Quillette, November 28, 2018
The Problem with ‘White Fragility’ Theory, Quillette, August 24, 2018 (discussed further in a podcast with Quillette associate editor Toby Young, and in an interview with Benjamin Boyce)
The Best Response to This Weekend’s ’Unite the Right’ Rally in Washington, D.C., The Good Men Project, August 11, 2018
Is Confirmation Bias the Dark Side of Social Justice Activism?, The Good Men Project, August 9, 2018
Does the Specter of Antonio Gramsci’s Neo-Marxism Haunt the Democratic Party and Its Allies?, The Good Men Project, March 1, 2018
Men Should Be Asking Themselves Not What They Have Done Right But What They Have Done Wrong, The Good Men Project, December 10, 2017
Can Men Say ‘Me Too’ As Well?, The Good Men Project, October 22, 2017
And Then Charlottesville Happened, The Good Men Project, August 27, 2017
Corporate America Needs to Step up and Support Paid Family Leave, The Good Men Project, August 13, 2017
Count Me Among the Skeptics of Hype on Social Media, The Good Men Project, July 30, 2017
Time Is the Nemesis of Happiness , The Good Men Project,July 16, 2017
The Specter of Marxism Haunts the Social Justice Movement, The Good Men Project, July 9, 2017
The Problem with Having Changing Tables in Men’s Restrooms, The Good Men Project, June 18, 2017
Save the Pickup Lines for the Bar, Not the Workplace, The Good Men Project, June 11, 2017
In Defense of Robert E. Lee, Sort of, The Good Men Project, June 4, 2017
The Role of Uncle Sam in the Decline of Prime-Age Male Labor Force Participation, The Good Men Project, May 28, 2017
Is Cultural Appropriation Turning Macbeth into a Coke-Snorting Stooge of Imperialist Spies?, The Good Men Project, May 21, 2017
A Father Dwells on a Dangerous Temptation His Daughter May Face in Life, The Good Men Project, May 14, 2017
The Puzzling Irony of Censoring The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Good Men Project, May 7, 2017
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Promotes the Cause of Black Lives Matter, The Good Men Project, April 30, 2017
The Persistence of Discriminatory Job Advertisements, The Good Men Project, April 23, 2017
Are Micro-Aggressions Really A Thing ?, The Good Men Project, April 16, 2017
The Idea That You’ve Met ‘The One’ is a Myth, The Good Men Project, April 2, 2017
I Am Straight, Male, and a Victim of Sexual Harassment, The Good Men Project, March 26, 2017
The Problem I Have with the Concept of White Privilege, The Good Men Project, March 19, 2017
I Am a Father Who Supports Paid Family Leave, The Good Men Project, March 5, 2017
A Father’s Five-Point Plan for Raising His Daughter in a World Where One in Five Women Have Been Raped, The Good Men Project, February 26, 2017
These Writers do Not Like Trump, The Good Men Project, February 19, 2017
Discrimination Against Men: Refusing to Consider Men When Choosing a Nanny, The Good Men Project, February 12, 2017
Why Dads Should Support Their Partners Who Breastfeed in Public, The Good Men Project, February 5, 2017
Why I Choose Not to Participate in Protests, The Good Men Project, January 29, 2017
Why We Gave Our Daughter a Boy’s Name, The Good Men Project, January 22, 2017
Why I Am a Man Who Chooses Not to Cry, The Good Men Project, January 15, 2017
How I Learned About Addiction Without Ever Having Consumed a Recreational Drug in My Life, The Good Men Project, January 1, 2017
What Does It Mean to Alienate Allies in the Quest for Social Justice?, The Good Men Project, December 25, 2016
Fidel Castro and Augusto Pinochet Were Ruthless Autocrats…, The Good Men Project, December 18, 2016
Is Walter White Simply A Poor White Guy Trying to Take Care of His Family?, The Good Men Project, December 4, 2016
Planet Fitness: A Safe Space for Not Working Out, The Good Men Project, November 20, 2016
Rape Culture in Trump Nation, The Good Men Project, November 13, 2016
Is the American Dream Not Working for Millions of American Men?, The Good Men Project, November 7, 2016
The Universe Is Indifferent, The Good Men Project, November 1, 2016
Life, Death, and a Father Who Survived Both, The Good Men Project, October 23, 2016
What I Learned from Studying the Men Detained at Guantanamo, The Good Men Project, October 16, 2016
That Giant Sucking Sound You Hear Is Men Being Drained from the Labor Force, The Good Men Project, October 9, 2016
The Real Reason Trump Could Win, The Good Men Project, October 2, 2016
The Post-Partum Anxieties of Fatherhood: Confessions of an Introvert, The Good Men Project, September 25, 2016 (discussed article with J. Thorn on his Intronaut podcast for introverts; listen here)
The Enlightenment of ’Dead White Males’: Why I Do Not Believe Education Is Always Political, The Good Men Project, September 18, 2016
A Prospective Stay-at-Home Dad Is Ready to Sign a Pre-Nuptial Agreement, The Good Men Project, September 4, 2016
The Risk of Being a Trump Supporter: He Will Betray You, The Good Men Project, August 28, 2016
What Every Man Can Say about the Love of His Life, The Good Men Project, August 21, 2016
White Privilege, the Law of Large Numbers, And a Little Bit of Bayes, The Good Men Project, August 14, 2016
Ask before You Touch the Belly of a Pregnant Woman, The Good Men Project, August 7, 2016
You Have to Like Her as Much as You Love Her, The Good Men Project, July 31, 2016
Why the Great Recession of 2008 Was the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me, The Good Men Project, July 24, 2016
What a White Man Has to Say About Race in America, The Good Men Project, July 17, 2016
Why I Proposed to My Fiancée without Getting Down on One Knee, The Good Men Project, July 10, 2016
I Am Going to Be a Father: Why I Don’t Care if It’s a Boy or a Girl, The Good Men Project, July 3, 2016
President Obama Errs by Refusing to Utter the Phrase ’Radical Islam’, The Good Men Project, June 20, 2016
‘Restorative Discipline’ Would Have Failed Me: Why I Believe in ’Old-School’ Discipline, The Good Men Project, June 12, 2016
The Small but not Insignificant Advantage of Being Poor, The Good Men Project, June 5, 2016
In Defense of Andrew Jackson, Sort of, The Good Men Project, May 22, 2016
Would I Have Been a Better Son if I’d Been Able to Show I Loved My Father?, The Good Men Project, May 8, 2016
How One Man Discovered He Might Be More Sexist than He Thought, The Good Men Project, May 1, 2016
Sorry but I Just Have to Say It: I’m Not Always Cool with ’Bro Code’, The Good Men Project, April 24, 2016
I Knew I Met the Girl I'm Going to Marry When I Found Pictures of Her with Her Ex (made a list of 50 top hits from the first 50,000 articles published by The Good Men Project), The Good Men Project, April 10, 2016
The Critical Importance of Gun Safety, The Good Men Project, April 3, 2016
A Personal Awakening on Racism in America, The Good Men Project, March 12, 2016
On Being the Son of a Poet, The Good Men Project, March 6, 2016
How Finding True Love Showed Me What a Self-Absorbed Narcissist I’d Become, The Good Men Project, November 7, 2015
'Tribute', an essay in TAXICAB POET CONFESSIONS: A Small Press Tribute to Dave Church, March 2009
POETRY
Dust to Ash, Big Hammer #22, July 2022
Rat Bastard Time, Street Value #5, January 2021
Kin, Blues, and Laughs, Lummox 9, Fall 2020
I Am Unhappy, Lummox 8, September 2019
I Am Happy, Big Hammer 20, January 2019
Schisms, Lummox 7, August 2018
Intermissions, Lummox 6, September 2017
Tsunami, Big Hammer # 19, February 2017
Nature, Calliope Magazine, November 2014
The Passing of History, Big Hammer #17, Fall 2014 (copies available through Dave Roskos, Iniquity Press)
Vengeance and Shame, Street Value #2, Summer 2014 (copies available through Dave Roskos, Iniquity Press)
War and Innocence, Street Value #2, Summer 2014 (copies available through Dave Roskos, Iniquity Press)
Gnat in Wine, Big Hammer #16, The Eviction Issue, Spring 2013 (copies available through Dave Roskos, Iniquity Press)
Remember the Time, a poem in TAXICAB POET CONFESSIONS: A Small Press Tribute to Dave Church, March 2009
SHORT STORIES
Marriage Is a Walk in the Park, published at The Agonist , Spring 2019
Sight-Seeing, New York City, Fall 2001, published at Vending Machine Press, September 4, 2017
NOVELS
Excerpt from a novel-in-progress entitled 'The Life and Times of Dave Church', published in Lummox #4, 2015
OP-EDS
With her obscene tirade against Kavanaugh, a Georgetown professor reminds us why people hate feminism, The Washington Examiner, October 3, 2018
The New York Times hands Trump a win by protecting Sarah Jeong’s bigotry, The Washington Examiner, August 8, 2018
Safer, under the mob?, The Providence Journal, August 1, 2014
Our Ideas about the Underprivileged, The Daily Pennsylvanian, February 28, 1997
ECONOMICS
Quoted/cited in New York Times (see here and here), Washington Post, NPR, and Forisk Consulting
Reasons behind the price premium for U.S. metallurgical coal exports, Energy Information Administration, April 24, 2024
What are the energy impacts from the port of Baltimore closure?, Energy Information Administration, March 28, 2024
U.S. coal exports account for larger share of a shrinking market, Energy Information Administration, January 29, 2024
EU’s sanctions on Russia’s coal increase U.S. coal exports to Europe, Energy Information Administration, November 2, 2023
Improving Response Rates and Representativity in the CPI Medical Care Index, (Washington DC: US Bureau of Labor Statistics), February 2023
“Chain Drift” in the Chained Consumer Price Index: 1999-2017, Monthly Labor Review (Washington DC: US Bureau of Labor Statistics), December 2021
Inflation expectations and inflation realities: a comparison of the Treasury Breakeven Inflation curve and the Consumer Price Index before, during, and after the Great Recession, Monthly Labor Review (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics), December 2019
Market-Based Inflation Expectations and Inflation Realities: A Comparison of the Treasury Breakeven Inflation (TBI) Rate Curve and the Consumer Price Index before, during, and after the Great Recession, BLS Working Paper, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Office of Prices and Living Conditions, February 2019
Examining price transmission across labor compensation costs, consumer prices, and finished-goods prices, Monthly Labor Review (Washington DC: US Bureau of Labor Statistics), April 2017
Spending habits of urban consumers and ’blue-collar’ consumers living in urban areas, 1984 and 2015, Beyond the Numbers (Washington DC: US Bureau of Labor Statistics), January 2017
Comparing the Consumer Price Index with the Gross Domestic Product Price Index and Gross Domestic Product Implicit Price Deflator, Monthly Labor Review (Washington DC: US Bureau of Labor Statistics), March 2016
The Cost of ’Basic Necessities’ Has Risen Slightly More than Inflation over the Last 30 Years, Beyond the Numbers: Prices and Spending, Vol. 4 No. 10 (Washington, DC: US Bureau of Labor Statistics), June 2015
Explaining the 30-Year Shift in Consumer Expenditures from Commodities to Services, 1982 to 2012, Monthly Labor Review (Washington DC: US Bureau of Labor Statistics), April 2014
The Consumer Price Index and the ‘Median CPI’, Beyond the Numbers: Prices and Spending, Vol. 2 No. 25 (Washington DC: US Bureau of Labor Statistics), December 2013 (co-authored with Kenneth J. Stewart)
Average Food Prices: A Snapshot of How Much Has Changed over a Century, Beyond the Numbers: Prices and Spending, Vol. 2 No. 6 (Washington, DC: US Bureau of Labor Statistics), February 2013 (co-authored with Kenneth J. Stewart)
Energy Prices Jump while Food Prices Show Modest Increases, Beyond the Numbers: Prices and Spending, Vol. 2 No. 3 (Washington, DC: US Bureau of Labor Statistics), May 2012
A Comparison of the CPI-U and the C-CPI-U, Focus on Prices and Spending: Consumer Price Index, Vol. 2 No. 11 (Washington, DC: US Bureau of Labor Statistics), November 2011 (co-authored with Kenneth J. Stewart)
Strategic Networking in Standard Setting Organizations: The Case of JEDEC (Master's Thesis, Cornell University, August 2007)
Performance and Contractual Arrangement in the Philadelphia Taxicab Industry, Economica Journal of Economic Thought, Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 2002
Observations on Taxicabs, Regional Review (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston), October 1998