“The Man Who Knew Too Much,” in Raritan on War, edited by Jackson Lears and Karen Parker Lears, Rutgers University Press, January 14, 2025.
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“The Sinister Seductions of ‘Humane War’,” review of Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, by Samuel Moyn, Raritan: A Quarterly Review, Spring 2023, 115-124.
Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body: A Marine’s Unbecoming, Bold Type Books, 2022.
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Review of The Vietnam War, by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, The Christian Century, January 17, 2018, 22-26.
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“Intersections of Race, Racism and War,” The Routledge Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, forthcoming.
“The ‘Cascade of Errors’ That Led to America’s War on Terror,” review of The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, The C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq, by Steve Coll, The Nation, August 22, 2024.
“Changed My Mind: A Veteran Reckons with the Realities of Battle,” Left, Right & Center, KCRW, August 4, 2023.
“A Few Good Men,” The Forum, May 17, 2023.
“Can we heal wartime trauma without confronting the real causes of war?,” review of Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America, by Nadia Abu El-Haj, The Washington Post, December 13, 2022.
“Being a Man in the Marines,” Current Affairs, November 21, 2022.
“How a Defender of American Empire Became a Dissenter: A Conversation with Lyle Jeremy Rubin,” interviewed by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins in The Nation, November 17, 2022.
“Theaters of War: When Performance Becomes Deadly,” Literary Hub, November 4, 2022.
“Yoram Hazony and the Hysterics of Reaction,” The Bias Magazine, September 30, 2020.
“Daniel Ellsberg: The nuclear war planner who knew too much,” review of The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, by Daniel Ellsberg, The Independent, September 23, 2020.
“How Stacey Abrams inadvertently started a conversation about American militarism,” Responsible Statecraft, June 1, 2020.
“The Long Arm of the Law,” review of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing, by Stuart Schrader, The Baffler, January 27, 2020.
“Veterans: Pull the Troops Out of Afghanistan Now,” The New York Times, November 11, 2019.
“Beyond Bowe Bergdahl,” review of American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan, by Matt Farwell and Michael Ames, The Nation, October 23, 2019.
“Modern Warfare’s Secrets: An Interview with Lyle Rubin,” interviewed by Slawek Blich in Dissent, June 6, 2019.
“The Paranoid, Reactionary Dreams of Ronald Reagan,” review of Reagan: An American Journey, by Bob Spitz, Jacobin, March 16, 2019.
“Ilhan Omar is a Threat to US Empire,” Jacobin, February 23, 2019.
“Under the Boot,” review of The Corrosion of Conservatism, by Max Boot, The Baffler, February 12, 2019.
“Trump is losing military voters. Here's how Democrats can win them over,” Washington Post, December 31, 2018.
“‘A torrent of ghastly revelations’: what military service taught me about America,” The Guardian, December 18, 2018.
“The Forever War’s Cheerleaders,” The Nation, September 19, 2018.
“It’s Time for a Little Perspective on Russia,” Current Affairs, July 20, 2018.
“Why Anticapitalist Conservatism Fails,” review of Why Liberalism Failed, by Patrick J. Deneen, Jacobin, July 2, 2018.
“The Left’s Embrace of Empire,” The Nation, March 28, 2018.
“Capitalism and Freedom,” review of Conservatives Against Capitalism: From the Industrial Revolution to Globalization, by Peter Kolozi, Jacobin, December 13, 2017.
“A Veterans Day Plea from a Marine: Please, stop revering us,” New York Daily News, November 11, 2017.
“From Our Foreign Wars to Our Domestic Massacres, Violence Begets Violence,” The Daily Beast, October 10, 2017.
“Appeal for a Reinvigorated Veterans Movement,” New Labor Forum, April 13, 2017.
“As a Former Marine, America’s War-Making Haunts Me—It Should Haunt Our Politicians Too,” The Nation, April 12, 2016.
“Who Wants to Save Capitalism?,” Jacobin, October 26, 2015.
Review of The New Prophets of Capital, by Nicole Aschoff, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (IVC), August 25, 2015.
Interview of Jacob Bridge, “A conscientious objector,” Aeon, April 10, 2015.
Review of Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis, by Benjamin Kunkel, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (IVC), October 20, 2014.
“A Former Marine Explains All the Weapons of War Being Used by Police in Ferguson,” The Nation, August 20, 2014.
“A Realistic Radicalism,” Dissent, May 28, 2013.
“Warrior Critics,” review of A People’s History of the U.S. Military: Ordinary Soldiers Reflect on Their Experience of War, from the American Revolution to Afghanistan, by Michael Bellesiles, Dissent, September 17, 2012.
“A return to seriousness,” Aeon, September 13, 2012.
“On James Livingston and the New Intellectuals,” Dissent, July 11, 2012.
“How the Left can Win the Military, and Save America’s Soul,” Dissent, April 9, 2012.