It’s said that everything lives forever on the Internet. I wish. I have accumulated hundreds of bylines over the course of my career, and yet only a fraction of my essays and articles are still accessible. Extinction, media consolidation, and routine server scrubbing have chipped away at my permanent record. Here’s a list of what’s still out there.
My archive at the Yankee Institute for Public Policy, 2018–2019
Reading the American Post-Apocalypse • Medium, 2017
Decoding the Success of a Picture Book About Monsters and Trolls • Atlas Obscura, 2017
As American as Apfelkuchen • Politics Means Politics, 2017
Black Panther and the Promised Land • Electric Literature, 2016
Chopping Wood: A Beginner’s Guide • Insteading, 2016
A Dry Town Goes Wet After More Than a Century • Atlas Obscura, 2016
The Incredibly Convoluted History of Westmoreland County, Connecticut • Journal of the American Revolution, 2014
Fight Over Solar in Bridgeport: Two Types of Environmentalism Collide • National Geographic Energy Blog, 2014
The Whale-boat Men of Long Island Sound • Journal of the American Revolution, 2013
Reprinted in Journal of the American Revolution: Annual Volume 2015
Samuel Smedley and Prize Division • Journal of the American Revolution, 2013
An Interview With Jeffrey E. Barlough, author of the Western Lights novels • Black Gate, 2013
For Sale: Stamford Island Offers Off-Shore Retreat • Stamford Advocate, 2010
Eight Million Sots in the Naked City • Reason, 2007
The First Free State Project • Reason, 2004
Tempest in a Coffeepot: Starbucks Invades the World • Reason, 2003
Reprinted in Current Perspectives: Cultural Anthropology and Globalization, 2006