‘To Catch a Predator’ Ended Almost 20 Years Ago. Its Grim Legacy Lives on.

I wrote a piece for @nytimes.com on the doc "Predators,"
which revisits To Catch a Predator, and our culture of schadenfreude and participatory punishment:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/m...

Wholesome, Noble Superheroes Are Back. (A Wholesome, Noble World Is Not.)

Like compare and contrast essays? I wrote one on #Superman and #FantasticFourFirstSteps for
@nytimes.com, dissecting how our superheroes have changed this century: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/m...

Wholesome, Noble Superheroes Are Back. (A Wholesome, Noble World Is Not.)

I wrote a piece for the @nytimes.com on the two diff ways
we tell superhero stories, as demonstrated by this summer's superhero films. This is my first piece in NYT Mag—one of my all-time favorite pubs—so it's pretty special. Check it out online and in print: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/m...

How We Became Captives Of Social Media | NOEMA Today’s social media has shifted from social networking platforms to AI-enhanced conveyor belts of vapid entertainment. Is there any escape?

“The stark cognitive dissonance between how people feel about social media & how they use it is one sign that we have entered a new era in our relationship with these platforms.”

— @mikesmariani.bsky.social

How We Became Captives Of Social Media | NOEMA Today’s social media has shifted from social networking platforms to AI-enhanced conveyor belts of vapid entertainment. Is there any escape?

My newest piece, a longform reported essay on how social media platforms are evolving away from their original purpose and becoming vehicles of passive consumption and AI proliferation—and the implications for our intellects and futures: www.noemamag.com/how-we-becam...

The mistake Democrats keep making about character - The Boston Globe In Trump’s fun house mirror of America, there’s no point in trying to disqualify someone by pointing out their bad deeds.

New to Blue Sky, but wanted to share that I wrote an opinion piece for @bostonglobe.com on the increasing valorization of transgressive, transactional behavior in a culture colored by Trump—and how it makes moral indignation rudderless: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/14/o...