Selected Journalism 

On Luxurious Ibiza, Essential Workers Are Forced to Live in Tent Cities, The New York Times, August 23, 2024

Future Tense, Aspen Review, July 2024

A Tale of Two Cities, Aspen Review, January 2024

Moving Forward Looking Back, Aspen Review, December 2023

The Cultural Battlefield, Aspen Review, October 2022

The Cold War Is Dead. Not Even Tom Cruise Can Bring It Back, The Daily Beast, September 16, 2022

The First Forays of A Czech Double Agent at the Dawn of the Cold War, Crime Reads, August 23, 2022

History in Color, Aspen Review, July 2022

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Aspen Review, March 2021

Fantasy Island, Aspen Review, June 2020

The Paradox of the Shrinking Center, The American Interest, November 11, 2019

Sound the Alarm, Aspen Review, August 2019

Vox Populi, The American Interest, April 27, 2019

Love Stories, The Economist, April 23, 2019

The Empire Strikes Back, The Economist, June 21, 2018

The Lasting Power of Legacy Media, The American Interest, May 10, 2018

Effets pervers de la lutte anticorruption en Europe centrale, Le Monde Diplomatique, April 2018

Totalitarian Politics Are Local, The Los Angeles Review of Books, June 6, 2018

Myth Over Math, Aspen Review, November 2017

Money for Nothing, The Los Angeles Review of Books, October 9, 2017

Democracy’s Dark Side, The Los Angeles Review of Books, May 12, 2017

East of Eden, The Los Angeles Review of Books, November 11, 2016

Post-Communist Chic, The Economist, September 17, 2016

Unbearable angst of Czech being, Politico, June 13, 2016

How a Czech Super Spy Infiltrated the CIA, The Guardian, June 30, 2016

Movement Science, The Los Angeles Review of Books, May 24, 2016

Cult Classic, The Los Angeles Review of Books, March 26, 2016

Recalculating Democracy, Politico, August 13, 2015

Where a Budweiser Isn’t Allowed to Be a Budweiser, Time, January 27, 2014

Trying Its Luck, Der Spiegel, September 4, 2013

Could Adolf Hitler Come to Power Today?, The Economist, June 25, 2013

A Triumph Over Cynicism, Haaretz, December 21, 2012