Selected Reporting, Reviews, Print Interview
“361 Days of Christmas,” The New York Times, DECEMBER 13, 2019
“An Enemy of Civil Rights Just Won the GOP Nomination for Governor of Michigan,” The Nation. AUGUST 8, 2018
“Roger Scruton’s Conservative Moment,” The Nation, JULY 2, 2018
“Past Revival: On Meghan O’Gieblyn’s ‘Interior States,’” The Point, NOVEMBER 23, 2018
“The Problems of Liberalism: A Q&A With Patrick Deneen,” The Nation, MAY 28, 2018
“Don’t Play It for Laughs: A Q&A With Armando Iannucci,” The Nation, MARCH 29, 2018
Books
Co-Editor, “The Sower and the Seer: Perspectives on the Intellectual History of the American Midwest,” Wisconsin Historical Society Press, February 2021.
Co-Editor, “Finding a New Midwestern History,” University of Nebraska Press, November 2018.
Audio Interviews: Selected
“Gerald Russello on The University Bookman and Conservative Magazines,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, FEBRUARY 1, 2018
“Maggie Doherty on Mary McCarthy, Tillie Olsen, and the Work of Writing,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, JANUARY 6, 2018
“Sophie Pinkham on the Russian Revolution,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, JANUARY 7, 2018
“Josephine Livingstone on Cultural Criticism and Leaving the Academy,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, DECEMBER 1, 2017
“Andrew Hartman on Marx Today,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, NOVEMBER 1, 2017
“Juliet Fleming Defends Jacques Derrida,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, OCTOBER 23, 2017
“Andrew Spear on Epistemic Porn,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, 2017
“Martha Jones on Campus Politics and the Free Speech Debate,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, 2017
“Kate Medina on Random House, editing EL Doctorow, and reading James Joyce,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, AUGUST 5, 2017
“Sam Anderson on literary criticism (Part 2),” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, AUGUST 1, 2017
“Sam Anderson on literary criticism (Part 1),” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, JULY 21, 2017
“Sarah Leonard, Bhaskar Sunkara, and David Marcus V. Daniel McCarthy, Ingrid Gregg, and Winston Elliott III: Politics and Journalism, Left and Right (Pt. 2),” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, 2017
“Sarah Leonard, Bhaskar Sunkara, and David Marcus V. Daniel McCarthy, Ingrid Gregg, and Winston Elliott III: Politics and Journalism, Left and Right (Pt. 1),” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, 2017
“Keisha Blain on African American Intellectual History and Public Intellectualism,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, 2017
“Peter Kalkavage on Music and Metaphysics,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, 2017
“Jon Lauck on the Literary History of the Midwest,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, 2017
“Jess Row on ‘Your Face in Mine’ and Race in Contemporary American Fiction,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, 2017
“David Sehat on the Invention of the Founding Fathers,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, 2017
“John Waters on the Easter Rising,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, 2017
“David Parsons on The Nostalgia Trap and Leftists in the Trenches,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, 2017
“James Panero on The New Criterion, Pt. 2” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, FEBRUARY 13, 2017
“James Panero on The New Criterion, Pt. 1,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, FEBRUARY 8, 2017
“Emma Green on Religion in American Politics,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, JANUARY 25, 2017
“Caitlin Zaloom on Public Books,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, JANUARY 24, 2017
“Jonny Thakkar on The Point Magazine,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, JANUARY 19, 2017
“Rita Felski on Literary Criticism and the Limits of Critique,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, DECEMBER 21, 2016
“Sarah Leonard on Election 2016, the Democratic Party, and the Left,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, DECEMBER 2016
“Mark Carnes on Reacting to the Past,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, DECEMBER 1, 2016
“Gleaves Whitney on How Trump Won,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, NOVEMBER 24, 2016
“Heather Hendershot on William F Buckley and Political Talk Shows,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, NOVEMBER 17, 2016
“Martha Jones on the Intellectual History of Black Women,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, OCTOBER 2016
“Bhaskar Sunkara on Jacobin and the Future of the Left,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, OCTOBER 27, 2016
“Gleaves Whitney on Stephen Tonsor,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, OCTOBER 25, 2016
“Bradley J. Birzer on Russell Kirk and Conservatism, Then and Now,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, OCTOBER 18, 2016
“Andrew Hartman on the Culture Wars, Then and Now,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, October 6, 2016
“Matthew Continetti on Trump, Clinton, and the Washington Free Beacon,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, OCTOBER 5, 2016
“Back to School with Eva Brann,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, MAY 16, 2016
“H.W. Brands on Ronald Reagan,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University, FEBRUARY 1, 2017
“Back to School with Louis Menand and Alan Charles Kors,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University. DECEMBER 11, 2016
“Natalia Mehlman Petrzela on ‘Classroom Wars,’” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University. SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
“Jon Lauck on the Revival of Midwestern History,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University. JUNE 1, 2016
“Daniel Oppenheimer on ‘Exit Right,’” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University. JUNE 29, 2016
“George H. Nash on ‘The Conservative Intellectual Movement Since 1945,’” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University. JULY 27, 2016
“Ian Millhiser on the Supreme Court,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University. JULY 19, 2016
“Maureen Corrigan on ‘The Great Gatsby,’” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University. JULY 12, 2016
“E.J. Dionne, Jr. on ‘Why the Right Went Wrong,’” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University. JULY 4, 2016
“Daniel McCarthy on The American Conservative,” Common Ground Podcast, Hauenstein Center, Grand Valley State University. JULY 4, 2016
Media Appearances
Featured Interviewee. “20 Jahre 9/11: Wie sich die USA verändert haben” (“20 years of 9/11: How the USA has changed”). Österreich 1, Austrian Public Radio. Journalist: Thomas Langpaul. SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Interview. “America's Longest War: What Happened in Afghanistan?” with the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation. AUGUST 27, 2021