Business, Finance, and Culture
Jamie Dimon’s $4 Trillion Machine (New York Magazine, December 7, 2023)
Jared Kushner and Mohammed bin Salman: Princes of Tech Disruption? (The New Yorker, May 12, 2017)
What “The Organization Man” Can Tell Us about Inequality Today (The New Yorker, December 29, 2016)
Why We Pine for Manufacturing (The New Yorker, August 6, 2016)
What Tech’s Unicorn Cult Can Learn from the Art World (The New Yorker, June 12, 2016)
What Hillary Clinton Gets (and Bernie Sanders Doesn’t) About Wall Street (The New Yorker, December 10, 2015)
How Dodd-Frank Hurts Governors in the Money Primary (The New Yorker, October 7, 2015)
Goodbye to Wall That: The Decline of the Trading Desk Memoir (The New Yorker, August 26, 2015)
Edge and the Art Collector (n+1, July 22, 2013)
Outsourcing Jobs (n+1, December 20, 2011)
New Orleans and New York
Why the Reopening of New Orleans Matters (Medium, May 13, 2020)
What New Orleans Tells about the Perils of Putting Schools on the Free Market (The New Yorker, July 30, 2018)
Are New York Taxis Such a Bad Investment? (The New Yorker, July 17, 2017)
The Thrill of Losing Money by Investing in a Manhattan Restaurant (The New Yorker, September 9, 2016)
Comedy
41 Things to Do After Finding Out that Your First Child’s Due Date Is Donald Trump’s Birthday, June 14 (Medium, May 13, 2016)
The Madness of Airline Élite Status (The New Yorker, February 22, 2016)
Google and the G Thang (n+1, September 16, 2015)
My Life as a Cellphone Holdout (Wall Street Journal, August 9, 2013)
I Do Not Want to Dance the Hora (Slate, June 29, 2012)
Book Reviews
From an Artist’s Life in Brooklyn to North Dakota’s Oil Fields (New York Times, February 12, 2021)
A Moral Equivalent of Football? (n+1, January 15, 2014)
Oklahoma State of Mind (New York Times, April 16, 2013)
Lost Generations (New York Times, March 9, 2012)
Dispatches from the Jewish Imagination (n+1, August 16, 2007)
Boiling & Pouring (n+1, August 22, 2006)
The Improbable Story Behind America's Fracking Billionaires (The New Republic, November 1, 2013)
Private Empire (n+1, July 18, 2012)
Energy
Why Shale Skeptics Are Wrong (Hart Energy, March 19, 2020)
Trimming Oil Output Won't Keep OPEC States Afloat (Wall Street Journal, October 18, 2016)
Can Liberals Frack? (New York Times, April 11, 2016)
Two Questions on the Legacy of Aubrey McClendon (Medium, March 7, 2016)
What Prohibition Can Teach Us About Climate Change (Huffington Post, February 24, 2016)
For the Internet of Oil, It's 2002 (Medium, January 17, 2016)