Writing and Publications

The Long View: Surveillance, the Internet, and Government Research

2018

Published in the Los Angeles Review of Books

We face a crisis of computing. The very devices that were supposed to augment our minds now harvest them for profit. How did we get here?

Rebuilding the Ark: Alex Epstein and “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels”

2017

Published in the Los Angeles Review of Books

“The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels” is as thin as it is revealing

Blowout on the Island of Furious Saints

2016

One of the most remote inhabited islands in the world – only accessible by ship – built a new £285 million airport. But it doesn’t work. I traveled there to get the scoop.

The New Puritans

2013

Politicians and public figures repeatedly claim that Americans have lost sight of the “dignity of hard work.” Four decades of economic stagnation beg to differ.

The Encyclopedia of American Recessions and Depressions

(Contributor, 2014)

Edited by Daniel Leab

Naming the Net: the Domain Name System, 1983-1990

2011

A history of the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS), written as my MA/MSc thesis.