An Ode to Jury Duty: How the Courtroom Can Summon a Kinder Body Politic. The Globe and Mail (2022)

Where the Light Is Better. The Point (2021)

Cousin Starfish. The Hedgehog Review (2020)

Forest for Trees. The Point quarantine journal (2020)

All Made Up. The Point (2016)

An Olympic Transformation. The Oxford Cherwell (2010)

In 2012, I wrote a series of articles for the History Page on the now-defunct iPad news app, The Daily. The published articles have now disappeared into the mists of cyberspace, but I’ve preserved penultimate drafts of the following pieces:

“Nothing Secedes Like Excess”: a brief history of Talossa, an independent state founded in a Milwaukee teenager’s bedroom.

“Before Pong Came Along”: on the world’s first video game.

“Gael Storm”: on the abortive Fenian raid that was meant to capture Canada and ransom it back to the British in exchange for Irish independence.

“Chop Shop”: on the “disassembly line” that streamlined pig processing in the nineteenth-century and how it revolutionized the automobile industry.

“When Irish Guns Are Firin’”: The story of the St. Patrick’s Battalion, a group of disaffected Irish-American soldiers who defected to the Mexican side of the Mexican-American War.

“Behind the Mask”: How Marvel Comics gave birth to the Silver Age of superheroes.

“Licensing Pooh”: How Winnie-the-Pooh gave birth to the modern licensing industry.