Writings

My writings on news, culture, theatre, literature and history have appeared in a number of publications. Some of the most recent - and the best - of them are collected on this page. 

Recent Work

* How did Hong Kong become a virtual lab for protest in a surveillance state? (The Wilson Quarterly) 

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* Ivan Sviták and the power of truth in a post-truth age. (The New Republic)

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* An interview with the host of All In with Chris Hayes about the long COVID winter of 2020-2021. (The Wilson Quarterly). 

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* The Velvet Revolution and an American grad student inspired Bohumil Hrabal to write one of his greatest works. (The Wilson Quarterly)

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* Dachau 1919 and Dachau 1933 (Balkans via Bohemia) 

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Selected Essays and Interviews 

Harold Pinter (The Nation)

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Luddism and Luddites (The Baffler)

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Dusan Makavejev (The Nation)

The Wrong Witch: Dubravka Ugresic (The Common Review)

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Interview with Dubravka Ugresic (The Common Review)

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Renaissance Journalism (The Nation) 

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Labor and Theatre (The American Prospect)

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Jiří Kolář and Bohumil Hrabal (Balkans via Bohemia)

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Milan Kundera (The American Prospect)

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Doug Lucie (DC Theatre Scene)

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Weaponized Interdependence (The Wilson Quarterly)