I write essays about things I don’t yet understand.
BAD TOURISTS: Hanging with Reynard in the Anthropocene
I have some questions about animal misery, which means I also have some questions about animal happiness.
read the essay at Kenyon Review
How Humans Hijacked Language — from Themselves
New research at the cutting-edge intersections of evolutionary biology, archaeology, neuroscience, and linguistics is driven by a very old question: Where did language come from?
read the story at The Atlantic
Kids, Go Catch a Raccoon
No one today could get away with publishing The Golden Book of Wild-Animal Pets.
read the story at The Atlantic
The Value of our Produce
I was raised by leftist labor organizers in Kentucky, Detroit, and Queens, and it's fair to say that the plight of the Big Boss Man was not a frequent topic of conversation around our breakfast table.
read the essay at The Atlantic
Time On The Farm
I didn’t notice the marks on the John Deere until I’d had the tractor for maybe a month.
read the essay on GRIST