historian // copywriter by day // author of THE OTHER OLYMPIANS (out now from @fsgbooks!)
Joined August 2011
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2 May 2024
I love these 1936 newsreel clips of Zdeněk Koubek, a Czech track star who publicly transitioned gender
after his transition, he came to New York to perform on Broadway. this seems to be the only surviving video
Koubek is the center of my book, THE OTHER OLYMPIANS — out June 4!
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6 Nov 2025
American cities and towns regularly turn to private investors to raise funds for schools and basic infrastructure
and on the private bond market, the rich ones win and the poor inevitably lose
wrote about the long arc of municipal debt for @TheAtlantic:
theatlantic.com/books/2025/1…
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6 Nov 2025
and this debt impacts pretty much everything—once you glimpse how municipal debt shapes inequality, it's really hard to unsee
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12 Sep 2025
not on here so much anymore but just have to share that the Japanese edition arrived!
it's a family :)
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12 Sep 2025
if any, like, German or Czech publishers want in, let's keep this energy going...
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1 Jul 2025
This should be on every major news site.
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25 Jun 2025
DSA chapters across the nation need to instantly be reviewing their core cadre and sorting by hotness in advance of an all out nationwide electoral push
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24 Jun 2025
election day 🤝 E•MO•TION anniversary
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25 Jun 2025
Time to make sure he actually delivers on this promise.
24 Jun 2025
MAMDANI: “As Mayor I would have Netanyahu arrested if he came to New York!”
WTF?
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23 Jun 2025
Already back out protesting for Palestine. What a legend.
22 Jun 2025
🚨‼️BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil marches to the gates of Columbia University—just moments after a powerful welcome home rally surrounded by friends, family, and community members who stood by him and continue to stand with Palestine.
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20 Jun 2025
NEW: "Where is the outrage over Skrmetti?"
On the far right's campaign to create uncertainty over gender-affirming medical care for minors — and the powerful institutions that helped along the way.
Tonight, at Law Dork. lawdork.com/p/where-is-the-o…
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6 Jun 2025
I wrote abt u-mich hiring undercover investigators to spy on pro-Palestinian campus groups. Investigators drove a car at a student, pretended to be disabled, accused a student of robbing them, etc. Incl jaw dropping video theguardian.com/us-news/2025…
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4 Jun 2025
I wrote for @TheAtlantic about how archivists are contending with our digital detritus — whether we'll be able to save emails, texts, Discord chats, etc and what that means for how we tell history:
theatlantic.com/culture/arch…
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archivists are all waiting for the really big challenge—what happens when they're tasked with processing a person's entire cellphone?
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4 Jun 2025
i will always love Edmund White for being such an iconic gossip throughout CITY BOY but the thing I will never forget is his description of the perfect day job in the early 1970s
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1 Jun 2025
Read this horrifying testimony from Israel's massacre of people just trying to get food:
1 Jun 2025
Our teams joined the mass casualty response in Nasser hospital, Gaza, today, after another disastrous food distribution resulted in people getting shot by Israeli forces. Hear from patients:
msf.org/dozens-palestinians-…
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27 May 2025
in one week: to celebrate the paperback of The Other Olympians, @9BillionTigers, @Hugh_Ryan, Sabrina Imbler, and I are presenting on our research obsessions
hear about historical love affairs, sexually active popes, and much more
June 3 @ 7 pm! lu.ma/lnnvrmoh
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22 May 2025
you unfortunately just know the party is going to be filled with gay boys the moment you walk in and see this
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21 May 2025
Noor Abdalla was eight months pregnant when her husband, Mahmoud Khalil, was arrested, in March. She hasn’t seen him since, and now has a one-month-old son.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/u3…
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15 May 2025
The Other Olympians is coming out in paperback on June 3! to celebrate, @9BillionTigers, @Hugh_Ryan, Sabrina Imbler, and I are presenting on research obsessions that never made it to print
come for wine and light debauchery, and maybe a photo op...
RSVP: lu.ma/lnnvrmoh
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