Media & Talks
Popular Writing
- "Conserving Liberalism," The Baffler (September 2021).
- "What Are The Humanities Good For?," The Hedgehog Review (Summer 2021).
- "Amazon and Us," The Hedgehog Review (May 13, 2021).
- "The End of the Businessman President," The New Republic (December 8, 2020).
- "Covidien and the Failure of Corporate Social Responsibility," The Hedgehog Review (April 13, 2020).
- "What Howard Zinn Got Wrong," In These Times (March 2020).
- "Elizabeth Warren’s revolutionary plan to reduce income inequality," Washington Post (August 24, 2018).
- "Markets are Made: The Story of Capitalism," Comment (April 26, 2018).
- "Don't Be Evil," The Hedgehog Review (Spring 2018).
- "Capitalism's Theologian," Jacobin (Feb. 28, 2017).
- "The Rhetoric of Cowardice," The Boston Review (January 14, 2015).
- 2020. “The Challenge to Managerialism and the Corporate Politics of the Late Twentieth Century.” Business History Conference. Charlotte, NC.
- January 17, 2020. “The End of Managerial Autonomy.” History of Capitalism Seminar. Newberry Library. Chicago, IL.
- 2019. Chair and Presenter, “The End of Liberalism” Roundtable. Society for U.S. Intellectual History. New York, NY.
- November 22, 2019. “Taming the Octopus.” Emerging Ideas Workshop. Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. Charlottesville, VA.
- 2019. “Profits, Politics, and New Deal Liberalism: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Postwar Era.” American Historical Association. Chicago, IL.
- 2018. “Reforming Corporations from Within: Shareholder Activism and the New Left.” Business History Conference. Baltimore, MD.
- 2017. “Are Corporations Persons? Corporate Personality and the Liberal State.” Society for U.S. Intellectual History Conference. Dallas, TX.
- 2017. “Shareholder Democracy vs. ‘The City of God’: Debates over Corporate Polity in Mid-Century United States.” Business History Conference. Denver, CO.
- 2016. “Kansas Oil War of 1905: ‘Roosevelt’s Populists’ and the Making of Markets.” Workshop in the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology, and Science. New Brunswick, NJ.
- 2018. “The Corporation and the Common Good,” Invited Lecturer, Center for Faith and Public Life, Oklahoma Baptist University, March 7.
- 2016. "The Corporation: Splitting the Atom of Capitalism,” Guest Lecturer for “History of Capitalism,” Rutgers-New Brunswick, March 21.
- 2015. “Race, Space, and Post-War Housing Development,” Guest Lecturer for “From Plantation to White House,” Rutgers-New Brunswick, March 23.