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“Climate Bidenomics,” with Geoff Mann, on the Biden administration’s climate program and what it reveals about contemporary capitalism, New Left Review 143, Sept/Oct 2023

“What Will Worldmaking Require?” on Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Reconsidering Reparations, Law & Political Economy Project Symposium, 2023

“Latour’s Metamorphosis”: on the life and work of Bruno Latour, Sidecar, New Left Review, January 2023

“Labor Without Love,” on Sarah Jaffe’s Work Won’t Love You Back and Aaron Benanav’s Automation and the Future of Work, The Nation, October 2022

“Freedom and Catastrophe”: on Pierre Charbonnier’s Affluence and Freedom and the idea of freedom as material, New Left Review 135, May/June 2022

“Is Sabotage a Pipe Dream?”: On Andreas Malm’s argument for blowing up pipelines, Property Will Cost Us the Earth, Verso 2022

“Picking Winners”: COP26 and the future of global climate politics, New Left Review, November 2021

Thinking crisis and climate via Gramsci, with Geoff Mann, New Statesman, November 2021

“Diminishing Returns," on Branko Milanovic, Capitalism, Alone, the Nation, May 2021

On experiments in climate politics, Boston Review, January 2021

The prospects for climate politics under Biden, Dissent, November 2020

“When Will Capitalism End?" on Francesco Boldizzoni, Foretelling the End of Capitalism, Boston Review May 2020

“Bad Romance”: rereading The Romance of American Communism for Dissent, Spring 2020

“After Carbon Democracy”: On anxieties about democracy and climate change, with Jedediah Britton-Purdy, Dissent, Winter 2020

“A Repair Manual for Spaceship Earth”: On the failed project Biosphere 2 and the fantasy of alternative worlds, Logic Fall 2020

“All Connected”: Hans Haacke, the New Museum union, and the limits of Institutional Critique, friezeOctober 2019 

“Material World," on Bruno Latour, Down to Earth, Dissent, Summer 2019

“Spadework”: On the experience of organizing a union, n+1, Spring 2019

“Everything to Lose," on David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth, and Nathaniel Rich, Losing Earth, The Nation, May 2019

How the Green New Deal can enable human freedom, with Kate Aronoff, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos, The Guardian, February 2019

“There’s No Time for Gradualism”: On climate economics, William Nordhaus, discount rates, and the future, Jacobin, October 2018

“States of Emergency," on Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright, Climate Leviathan, The Nation, June 2018

“How not to think about climate change”: On Nathaniel Rich and bad narratives of climate politics, Jacobin, 2018

“Living, Not Just Surviving”: On care work as low carbon work, Jacobin, 2017

“Within and against capitalism,” Jacobin, Summer 2017

“The False Promise of Universal Basic Income,” on Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists, and Andy Stern, Raising the Floor, Dissent Spring 2017

“Monstrous, Duplicated, Potent," on Donna Haraway, n+1, Spring 2017

“After Columbia,” n+1, August 2016; “Marching Through the Institutions,” n+1, March 2015: on graduate worker organizing, with Gabriel Winant

“How to Change Everything,” on Naomi Klein, This Changes EverythingJacobin, 2015

“Alive in the Sunshine”: The ecological case for universal basic income, by way of Virginia Woolf, Jacobin, Winter 2014

“Toward Cyborg Socialism”: On ecosocialism by way of Donna Haraway, Jacobin, Winter 2014

Back to No Future”: On left politics in the face of bleak futures, Jacobin, Spring 2013

“The Flood Next Time”: Against climate disasters as wake-up calls, Jacobin, Winter 2012

A co-edited Jacobin series on possible visions of the Green New Deal, featuring pieces from John McDonnell, Raj Patel, Jane McAlevey, Nick Estes, and other leading thinkers.