Selected Articles
"Experiences in Groups" (n+1, 2025)
I went to a two-week group dynamics experiment and thought about the left (editors' pick on Longreads)
"Going Soft: Future-proofing the American Worker" (Harper's Magazine, 2025)
what the "crisis" of social skills is really about (the April issue cover story; also a Longreads editors' pick)
"Skill Issues: Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Its Discontents" (The Drift, 2024)
can behavior therapy teach us to feel better?
"Boundary Issues" (Parapraxis Magazine, 2023)
what's up with "personal boundaries," anyway?
"Boundaries are suddenly everywhere. What does the term actually mean?" (The Guardian, 2023)
slightly shorter, less nerdy version of the Parapraxis essay
"Distantiated Communities" (Cabinet Magazine, 2020)
the history of "social distancing"