Articles
Languages
America Has No Official Language. Instead It Has Hundreds
(New York Times, March 2024)
Disappearing Tongues (Guardian, February 2024)
The Last Improbably Refgue for the World's Languages (Atlantic, February 2024, login required)
The Wantok System (n+1, June 2020)
Talk of the Town (Artforum, October 2019)
Cyborg Tongues (Logic, April 2018)
The Race to Save a Dying Language (Guardian, August 2016)
Is the Islamic State Exterminating the Language of Jesus? (Foreign Policy, August 2014)
Radical Linguistics in an Age of Extinction (Dissent, Summer 2014)
How to Read the Dictionary of an Endangered Language (Harper's, August 2013) - subscription only
Philosophers of Babel (The New Inquiry, May 2014)
Endangered Speakers (n+1, Spring 2014) - subscription only
The Internet, where languages go to die? (Al Jazeera, March 2014)
In the Genizah of Dying Languages (Jewish Currents, Autumn 2012)
A Beautiful Moment in Ladino's Twilight Hour (The Jewish Chronicle, May 2008)
Zellig's Disappearing Act (Jewish Daily Forward, August 2011)
China
City of Protest: On Hong Kong with Jeff Wasserstrom (The Nation, January 2020)
Wherefore Art Thou Luomiou? (Foreign Policy, January 2015)
Parent of All the Gods (Los Angeles Review of Books, March 2014)
China's Westward Expansion and Its Discontents (Al Jazeera, March 2014)
Days of Wine and Rosaries (Harper's, July 2013)
Gatsby in Asia (The Daily Beast, June 2013)
Party TV (The New Inquiry, December 2012)
Ghosts in the Machine (The Daily Beast, December 2012)
China-Built Projects in US Stir Up Environmental Concerns (Chinadialogue, September 2012)
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom (The Daily Beast, March 2012)
Saying Mazel Tov in Mandarin (Jewish Daily Forward, January 2012)
China's Instant Cities, Thirty Years On (Lapham's, November 2010)
The Silk Road Unravels (Open Democracy, July 2009)
Labor
Interns, Victimized Yet Again (New York Times, July 2015)
Uber for Tutors? (Dissent, Fall 2015)
Two Occupys, and the New Global Language of Protest (Dissent, Summer 2015)
These Are the New Rules of Work (Fast Company, May 2015)
'Black Swan Event': The Beginning of the End of the Unpaid Internship (Time Magazine, June 2013)
Chinese Workers Foxconned (Dissent, Spring 2013)
Indentures are a sign of universities' decline into a factory system (Times Higher Education, August 2012)
Five Myths About Interns (Washington Post, May 2011)
Unpaid Interns, Complicit Colleges (The New York Times, April 2011)
The New Elitism of Internships (The Guardian, February 2011)
Unpaid Internships: Here's What They Say About Your Company (The Harvard Business Review, April 2010)
Other
Is Silicon Valley Beyond Redemption? (The Atlantic, March 2023)
A Red Zone Grows in Brooklyn (The Nation, September 2020)
Why We Mourn the Loss of a Printed 'Forward' (The Nation, January 2019)
Searching for Ashkenaz (In Geveb, June 2016)
What was the kultur-tuer? (In Geveb, August 2015)
Why would anyone want to shoot a sea otter? (Guardian, March 2015)
The Rise of Yiddish Online (Slate, February 2014)
Land of the Rising Zun: Yiddish to Japanese Dictionary Has 28,000 Entries (Jewish Daily Forward, January 2012)
Ten Megacities of the Near Future (Lapham's, December 2010)
Letter from Motor City (Open Democracy, June 2009)
Riding the Godless Express (Lapham's, February 2010)
Nero's Fiddle, Gaddafi's Fiction (Lapham's, March 2010)
Last updated: 11 March 2024.