This is a list of book reviews, commentary, and other occasional pieces for non-academic venues. I also blog regularly at The Junto: A Group Blog on Early American History, and you can find my Junto posts archived here. While I was a graduate student at Oxford, I was an editor of the Oxonian Review; you can find my book reviews and articles for that publication collected here.
2019
Jacobin, "In Defense of the American Revolution," 4 July
Times Higher Education, "Employability is an ethical issue," 20 June
Times Higher Education, "Research is teaching preparation," 17 April
2018
Uncommon Sense, "Capital, Deception, and the Heirs of Daniel Parker," 12 December
BBC History Magazine, "Why does the USA celebrate Independence Day on 4 July?," July
Times Higher Education, "Let's take back control of our institutions," 7 June
BBC History Magazine, "The Dark Side of Alexander Hamilton," April
2017
BBC History Magazine, "How to Negotiate an Exit (the Benjamin Franklin Way)," December
Times Higher Education, "There is an alternative to high-cost VCs," 24 August
Age of Revolutions Blog, "Anarchy and the American Revolution," 24 July
Notches Blog, "Pleasing and Teasing: Bourgeois Sexuality in the Age of Commerce," 27 June
The Nation, "The Republic of Rogue Island," 23 June
Times Higher Education, "Students Are Now a Force in British Politics," 9 June
Reviews in History, "American Enlightenments," March
Times Higher Education, "Two-year degrees? On the road to enlightenment, speed kills," 9 March
Times Higher Education, "Limiting PhDs creates the wrong kind of elite," 5 January
2016
The New Republic, "Back to the Founding!" 31 October
Times Higher Education, "The diverse spectrum of diversity," 22 September
Readex Report, "The Mysterious Mr Carter: Transatlantic Adventures in Early American Finance," September
Novara Wire, "The Two Pillars of Corbynism: The Only Way for Labour to Respond to Brexit," 30 June
Monticello Blog, "And when I meet Thomas Jefferson," 3 May
Times Higher Education, "Ending casualisation will not only benefit early career academics," 24 March
Novara Wire, "Support for the Empire Shows it Matters Who Controls the Past," 25 January
2015
Times Higher Education, "Today's students are anything but coddled," 3 December
Novara Wire, "4 Ideas for the Comprehensive University," 2 November
Novara Wire, "Bad for Business? 5 Ways a Corbyn Government Could Change the UK Economy," 3 August
Cambridge Humanities Review, "True To Their Own Interests," Spring
2013
The New Inquiry, "Just Friends," 2 December
The New Inquiry, "Spectrum Order," 2 August
2012
Jacobin, "The New Founding Hagiography and Its Enemies," 12 December
Prospect, "The magic of money," 23 November
Prospect, "What are constitutions for?," 14 August
US Intellectual History, "Jefferson, Paine, and the Question of Generations," 17 April
Reviews in History, "American Property," January
2019
Jacobin, "In Defense of the American Revolution," 4 July
Times Higher Education, "Employability is an ethical issue," 20 June
Times Higher Education, "Research is teaching preparation," 17 April
2018
Uncommon Sense, "Capital, Deception, and the Heirs of Daniel Parker," 12 December
BBC History Magazine, "Why does the USA celebrate Independence Day on 4 July?," July
Times Higher Education, "Let's take back control of our institutions," 7 June
BBC History Magazine, "The Dark Side of Alexander Hamilton," April
2017
BBC History Magazine, "How to Negotiate an Exit (the Benjamin Franklin Way)," December
Times Higher Education, "There is an alternative to high-cost VCs," 24 August
Age of Revolutions Blog, "Anarchy and the American Revolution," 24 July
Notches Blog, "Pleasing and Teasing: Bourgeois Sexuality in the Age of Commerce," 27 June
The Nation, "The Republic of Rogue Island," 23 June
Times Higher Education, "Students Are Now a Force in British Politics," 9 June
Reviews in History, "American Enlightenments," March
Times Higher Education, "Two-year degrees? On the road to enlightenment, speed kills," 9 March
Times Higher Education, "Limiting PhDs creates the wrong kind of elite," 5 January
2016
The New Republic, "Back to the Founding!" 31 October
Times Higher Education, "The diverse spectrum of diversity," 22 September
Readex Report, "The Mysterious Mr Carter: Transatlantic Adventures in Early American Finance," September
Novara Wire, "The Two Pillars of Corbynism: The Only Way for Labour to Respond to Brexit," 30 June
Monticello Blog, "And when I meet Thomas Jefferson," 3 May
Times Higher Education, "Ending casualisation will not only benefit early career academics," 24 March
Novara Wire, "Support for the Empire Shows it Matters Who Controls the Past," 25 January
2015
Times Higher Education, "Today's students are anything but coddled," 3 December
Novara Wire, "4 Ideas for the Comprehensive University," 2 November
Novara Wire, "Bad for Business? 5 Ways a Corbyn Government Could Change the UK Economy," 3 August
Cambridge Humanities Review, "True To Their Own Interests," Spring
2013
The New Inquiry, "Just Friends," 2 December
The New Inquiry, "Spectrum Order," 2 August
2012
Jacobin, "The New Founding Hagiography and Its Enemies," 12 December
Prospect, "The magic of money," 23 November
Prospect, "What are constitutions for?," 14 August
US Intellectual History, "Jefferson, Paine, and the Question of Generations," 17 April
Reviews in History, "American Property," January