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