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April 2015

April 26, 2015

Running the numbers on smokers, migrants, cancer, and drones

This past week at FiveThirtyEight, I've been covering the grim calculus of migrant ships, the...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

I’ve taken a job at FiveThirtyEight!

I'm pleased to announce that I've started working this week at FiveThirtyEight. I'm a news...

September 2014

September 03, 2014

Plato Disappoints at the Googleplex

I'm over at First Things today, reviewing Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's Plato at the Googleplex, in which she writes...

May 2014

May 27, 2014

Amazon Foreshadows Internet Fights to Come

Debates over net neutrality tend to be a bit abstract and hypothetical for consumers. Net...

May 20, 2014

When Asking for Help is Generous

My piece in the most recent print edition of The American Conservative came out from behind the...

May 13, 2014

In Which I Am Not Moved By Pandas

Yesterday, at The American Conservative, I wrote a little about what the ends of conservation...

May 10, 2014

The Unexpected Consequences of Laws and Lies

Two of my recent posts at The American Conservative turned out to be about unintended consequences....

May 06, 2014

Keeping the Past a Foreign Country

At The American Conservative today, I'm discussing a new method of recording oral histories that would...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Making and Breaking Deals… in SPACE

My most recent pieces for The American Conservative are about bargains that are questionably made and...

April 26, 2014

Good Failures and Bad Fixes

In two of my recent posts for The American Conservative, I got to review Megan McArdle's...

April 24, 2014

Prisoners are Calling. Who’s Answering?

Today, I'm over at First Things to talk about prisons, communities, and cell phones. Until cellphones made...

April 12, 2014

Just War, Culture War, Cyber… frackup

Time for another roundup of this week's writing for The American Conservative. First up, my review...

April 06, 2014

Flash Boys and Patent Ploys

This week, all my posts for The American Conservative had a slightly tech-y bent, starting with...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

World Vision, Bad Science, and Living Death Sentences

Here's the round-up of the posts I've done this week at The American Conservative, starting with...

March 23, 2014

Math, Moolah, Meddling Spies, and Monarchs

Here's the roundup of my most recent writing for The American Conservative, which includes math nerdery,...

March 12, 2014

Post-CPAC Roundup: Crime, Race, Religion, and Women

Earlier today I wrote about the how of my CPAC coverage, and here's the what: all the...

March 09, 2014

Three Radical Disruptions: Cyberwar, Drones, and Apprenticeships

I've spent this weekend at CPAC on a press pass, and I'll post a roundup...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

No Room for Atheists at the Conservative Inn

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is on the horizon, and, not 24 hours after...

February 22, 2014

Mammograms, University Lapses, and the Limits of Big Data

Over at my day job, I've gotten to write about two of my major hobbyhorses...

February 10, 2014

Overconfidence in Our Employment Models

Due to travel and college debate reunions that kept us on the floor until past...

February 04, 2014

Who Needs Literature for Problem Solving?

When I was watching the State of the Union last week, one of the lines...

January 2014

January 25, 2014

Here’s your job. Don’t get too comfortable.

I really enjoyed the article in Jacobin Magazine on the hidden (and harmful) assumption of the...

January 22, 2014

For Now We Kill As Through A Glass, Darkly

Meanwhile. over at AmCon, I have a piece on the botched execution in Ohio, where...

January 18, 2014

Lies, Spies, and Soft Paternalists

I've wrapped up my second week at my new job, and I wanted to give...

October 2012

October 17, 2012

A Binder Full of Women in Every Pot!

I tend to watch the debates with Twitter and Facebook open. When both candidates are...

August 2012

August 28, 2012

I’m at First Things today!

Remember the post last week on careers and hookup culture where I eschewed punny titles...

March 2012

March 26, 2012

Daylight Atheism Guestblogging [Index Post]

In May of 2011, I did a stint guestblogging at Daylight Atheism, while Adam Lee...

April 2011

April 08, 2011

7 Quick Takes (2/8/11)

--1-- Last week, I mentioned in my quick takes that I was going to see...

March 2011

March 04, 2011

7 Quick Takes (3/4/11)

--1-- I've almost made it to Spring Break (also known as lock-myself-in-a-room-and-write-my-senior-thesis-for-two-weeks-so-why-the-heck-is-it-called-break?), so I'll be...

January 2011

January 28, 2011

7 Quick Takes (1/28/11)

--1--Hi visitors from Conversion Diary, and welcome. This week I've been focusing on a defence...