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2023

• The FCC Under Trump, CounterPunch, December 25, 2024
• The Mobile Phone: Anchor of Postmodern Life, CounterPunch, December 7, 2023.
• Another Attempt at Net Neutrality, CounterPunch, October 26, 2023.
• Telecom Scandal: The Great Excise Tax Scam, CounterPunch, October 5, 2023.
• “5G,” ALEC and the U.S.’s Second-Rate Telecom System, CounterPunch, September 13, 2023.
• The Great Telecom Rip-Off, CounterPunch, March 23, 2023.
• The Cartel Economy and the Telecom Cartel, CounterPunch, January 5, 2023.

2022

• NYC Digital Redlining: A Tale of Woe, CounterPunch, December 7, 2022.
• Secrets of an AT&T Scandal, CounterPunch, November 11, 2022.
• One Year Later, Biden’s FCC Nominee Remains In Limbo, The Progressive, November 1, 2022.
• AT&T Fumbles: the Tryanny of Big Telecom, CounterPunch, March 30, 2022.
• Dude, Where’s My High-Speed Internet?, The Progressive, March 4, 2022.
• Digital Redlining or Digital Divides, CounterPunch, March 3, 2022.
• Net Neutrality Still Matters, CounterPunch, February 10, 2022.

2021

• The Broadband Plan Will Not End the Digital Divide, CountePunch, November 11, 2021.
• America’s Broadband Crisis: Making of a 21st Century Cartel, Monthly Review, September 23, 2021.
• Cities Struggle to End the Urban Digital Divide, The Progressive, September 16, 2021.
• Getting Connected, The Progressive, August-September 2021.
• Why Community Broadband Matters, CounterPunch, August 5, 2021.
• What’s Happening to the Telecom Trust, CounterPunch, May 25, 2021.
• AT&T’s “Harvesting” Scam, CounterPunch, May 6, 2021.
• An End to Broadband Inequality—or Just More of the Same?,
  The Progressive, April 3, 2021
• Electricity vs. Broadband: Does History Repeat Itself?, CounterPunch, March 4, 2021.
• Confronting the Digital Divide: New York City vs. Verizon, CounterPunch, February 24, 2021.
• Taking on Telecom’s ‘5G’, CounterPunch, February 3, 2021,

2020

• The Great 5G Hype, CounterPunch, March 20, 2020.
•  Irregulators v FCC: The Trial Begins, CounterPunch, January 17, 2020.

2019

• Taking on the FCC: Unraveling a $500 Billion Rip-Off, CounterPunch, June 7, 2019.

2016

• Verizon Strike Exposes Broader Shifts in Telecom Labor Conditions, TruthOut, May 13, 2016.

2014

• Save Net Neutrality: Make the Internet a Common Carrier, CounterPunch, April 25-27, 2014. 
• Media Consolidation Intensifies: Can the Comcast and Time/Warner Cable Merger be Stopped?, CounterPunch, February 13, 2014.
• The School Broadband Scam: Kids Suffer as Telecoms Profits Soar, CounterPunch, February 7-9, 2014.
• Privatizing the Public Good:  Is This the End of Net Neutrality?  CounterPunch, January 15, 2014.

2013

• Will 2014 Be the Year That Smartphone Filmmaking Goes Mainstream?, IndieWire, January 29, 2013. 
• Obama Disses Digital Promise to U.S. Kids: Broadband to the Classroom, CounterPunch, August 9-11, 2013.
• The Great Sandy Shell Game: American Telecom Users Will Be the Real Losers.  CounterPunch, July 18, 2013.
• Regulatory Capture at the FCC:  Corporate Corruption and The Special Interest State,  CounterPunch, May 24-26, 2013.
• Another Internet is Possible: Some Questions for the New FCC Chairperson,  CounterPunch, April 5-7, 2013.
• Opium of the 21st Century:  The Telecom Crisis. CounterPunch, January 25-27, 2013. Content is the opium of the 21^st century telecom user.

2012

• How Telecoms Sell Your Private Info to the Highest Bidder, AlterNet, November 8, 2012.
• Why Our Phones and Internet Are Being Threatened by a Big Telecomm Privatization Scheme, with Bruce Kushnik. AlterNet, July 26, 2012.
• ALEC, Tech and the Telecom Wars: Killing America’s Telecom Utilities, with Bruce Kushnick.  Huffington Post, July 24, 2012.
• What Secrets Is Your Cell Phone Company Telling the Government About You?, AlterNet, July 11, 2012.
• Obama’s Broadband Vision vs. the Communications Trust, with Bruce Kushnick. Huffington Post, June 25, 2012.
• America’s Spy State: How the Telecoms Sell Out Your Privacy, AlterNet, May 29, 2012
• The Telecom Scammers’ Latest Ploy to Screw You for More Cash,  AlterNet, March 21, 2012.
• Telecom Rip-Off: The Hidden Fees in Your Wireless and Phone Bills, with Bruce Kushnick.  AlterNet, January 16, 2012.

2011

• Occupy Telecom, Occupy the FCC: How the Communications Trust is Harming America’s Futures, AlterNet, November 18, 2011.
• The Smart Phone Con Job: Your So-Called 4G Phone Isn’t What It’s Cracked Up To Be AlterNet, June 30, 2011.
• Shills R Us: Organizations That Get AT&T Cash Endorse its Mega-Merger with T-Mobile, AlterNet, June 22, 2011.
• The Secret $8 Billion Wireless Scam: How AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Game the System, AlterNet, June 20, 2011.
• AT&T and T-Mobile Edge Closer to Merger, What’s In It For Customers? Very Little, AlterNet, June 9, 2011.
• It’s Time to Break Up AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner and the Rest of the Telecoms, AlterNet, May 11, 2011.
• “TV wars:  How the telecommunications trust is shaping the future of the Internet … and indie film”, Filmmaker, Spring 2011.

2010

• Network Faiure: The Crisis in America’s Telecommunications Network (with Bruce Kushnick), CounterPunch, March 12-14, 2010.
• The Comcast-NBC Merger & the Future of Internet Video, Z magazine, February 26, 2010.
• The Outrageous Ways Your Phone Company May Be Stealing from You, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, February 9, 2011.
• How AT&T, Verizon and the Telecom Giants Have Captured the Regulator Supposed to Control Them, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, January 8, 2011.

• “Entertainment,” in Antone F. Alber, ed., Multimedia: A Management Perspective (Belmont, CA: International Thompson, 1996).

• “Independents & the Digital Video Future,” NVReports, Fall 1996.

• “Theatrical Distribution of Feature Films,” in Morrie Warshawski, ed., The Next Step: Distributing Independent Films & Videos (New York: FIVF, 1995).

• “Distribution of the Digital Video Media: A Technology Primer for Independent Producers and Distributors,” NVReports, November 1995.

• “KQED Multimedia Publishing: A Strategic Market Analysis,” KQED/San Francisco, 1995.

• “Technological Innovation & the Role of the Humanities,” Humanities (California Council for the Humanities), Fall 1994.

• “Technology: The Virtues of CD-ROM,” Foundation News, July-August 1994.

• “Welcome to Your Future,” San Francisco Focus, November 1993.

• “Crossover: Hispanic Specialty Films in the U.S. Movie Marketplace,” in Chicanos and Film: Representation and Resistance, Chon Noriega, ed. (University of Minnesota Press, 1992).

• “High Fiber: Fiber Optic Technology,” Off-Hollywood Report, Winter 1992.

• “Interactive Compact Disc,” NVReports, Winter 1992.

• “High Fiber, High Impact: High Fiber Technology, Independent Lobbying,” Off-Hollywood Report, Spring 1992.

• “Fiber Optics and the Future of Television,” NVReports, Winter 1991.

• “The World on a Disc: The Introduction of Interactive Media,” Commodore Interactive, 1991.

• “Independent Features: Foundation Support for Narrative Film” (with Nancy Sher), Benton Foundation Bulletin, May 1990.

• “Going Theatrical: Theatrical Distribution of Independent Films,” in Morrie Warshawski, ed., The Next Step: Distributing Independent Films & Videos (New York: AIVF/FIVF, 1989).

• “Expanding Interactive Media, New Observations, October 1 – November 14, 1989.

• “The Electronic Home in the Year 2000,” Center for Advertising Services, Interpublic Group, March 1989.

• “Financing Specialty Films, Hollywood Reporter, August 11, 1987.

• Executive Editor, CD-I News, LINK Resources, 1986-1989.

• “History in the Making: A Report from Microsoft’s First International Conference on CD-ROM” (with James Schamus), Educational Technology, July 1986.

• “Prime Time: Show Devant!” (with Gail Harper), de visu, Printemps 1986.

2010

• Sinner Men: The Rehabilitation of the Sex Sinner, CounterPunch, February 18, 2010.
• The New Morality Police:  The Crisis in America’s Telecommunications Network, CounterPunch, March 12-14, 2010.
• Network Failure: The Crisis in America’s Telecommunications Network, CounterPunch, March 12-14, 2010.
• The Third Front: Sexual Assault in the U.S. Military, CounterPunch, March 19-21, 2010.
• The GOP in Freewill?:  They Don’t Call It the Grand Old Party for Nothing, CounterPunch, March 31, 2010.
• Globalizing the Culture Wars: Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill, CounterPunch, April 2, 2010.
• Selective Journalism?: The New York Times vs. the Pope, CounterPunch, April 16, 2010.
• Obama’s Rwanda?:  Halt the Slaughter in the Congo Now, No Apologies Later, CounterPunch, May 2, 2010.
• Come Out George, Come Out!: Scandal Again Rocks the Christian Right, AlterNet, May 9, 2010.
• The Great Telecom Rip-Off:  Or Why Aunt Ethel Hung-up on AT&T, CounterPunch, May 28, 2010.
• The New Abortion Wars:  Recalling the Lessons of the 1929s, CounterPunch, June 25-27, 2010.
• Blood on the Floor:  The Mounting Social Crisis & the Fate of the Working Class, CounterPunch, August 8, 2010.
• Know-Nothings of 2010, Part 1:  The Tyranny of False Consciousness, CounterPunch, August 13, 2010.
• Know-Nothings of 2010, Part 2:  The Tyranny of False Consciousness, CounterPunch, August 20-22, 2010.
• End of “the American Century”?:  Suffering the New Normal, CounterPunch, September 10, 2010.
• Tea Party Panic:  The Fear of Sex & Race & Interracial Sex, CounterPunch, September 17, 2010.
• How the Phone Companies Are Screwing America: The $320 Billion Broadband Rip-Off. AlterNet, October 6, 2010.
• The Sexy Sisters:  Tea Party Infatuation with the “New” Republican Woman, CounterPunch, October 15, 2010.
• Conservatives’ Big Hypocrisy: Turning Women Candidates (Who Are Anti-Sex and Anti-Woman) into Sex Symbols, AlterNet, October 15, 2010.
• Class War in America:  The War That Dares Not Speak Its Name, CounterPunch, October 29-31, 2010.
• Class War Spurs Violent Clashes in Europe — Why Are Americans Just Letting the Super Rich Win?, AlterNet, November 1, 2010.
• Class War Redux:  The Tea Party Congress and Likely Return to Social Purity, CounterPunch, December 3-5, 2010.

2009

• Nails in the Coffin:  Last Gasps of the Culture Wars?, CounterPunch, February 1, 2009.
• Sexting: Latest Innovation in Porn, CounterPunch, March 25, 2009.
• Sexual Torture, Yet Again:  We Will Ever Know the Complete Truth?, CounterPunch, May 15-17, 2009.
• Porn Wars:  One Step Forward, But Too Many Steps Backward in the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, May 22, 2009.
• Cry, Hypocrite, Cry:  Politicians & America’s Grand Tradition of Sex Scandals, CounterPunch, June 26, 2009.
• Prison Rape as Policy:  The Domestic War on Terror, CounterPunch, July 8, 2009.
• Shouts from the Gallery:  Sotomayor Hearing & the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, July 15, 2009.
• Silent Slaughter:  Sex Wars & Nation Building in Iraq, CounterPunch, August 28, 2009.
• System Failure in the Garrido Case:  Sex Offenders, Media Hype and the Bureaucracy, CounterPunch, September 18, 2009.
• Bankrupt Morality:  The Staying Power of Republican Sinners, CounterPunch, October 8, 2009.
• America’s Failing Sexual Health:  An Unacknowledged Crisis, CounterPunch, December 1, 2009.
• 10-Plus-1 Top Sports Sex Scandals:  All’s Fair On & Off the Playing Field, CounterPunch, December 4, 2009.
• Sexual Politics in the Age of Obama:  A Year 1 Assessment, CounterPunch, December 22, 2009.

2008

• The Great Disappearing Act, CounterPunch, January 1, 2008.
• Playing the Race Card:  Barack Obama, Love Across the Race Line and Political Dirty Tricks, Counterpunch, February 27, 2008.
• Rape as an Instrument of Total War:  Women, Rape & Modernity’s Self-Negation, CounterPunch, April 4, 2008.
• The New Texas Two-Step:  Polygamy & State Regulation of Sexual Life, CounterPunch, April 19, 2008.
• Sexual Terrorism:  The Sadistic Side of Bush’s War on Terror, CounterPunch, May 13, 2008.
• The Great Disappearing Act:  2008 Presidential Candidates & the Politics of Sex, CounterPunch, June 23, 2008.
• Looking for Safe Harbor:  Teen Prostitution in America, August 2-3, 2008.
• The Culture Wars Are Over:  But Culture Warriors Still Terrorize America, CounterPunch August 23-24, 2008.
• The GOP’s Outed All-Stars, CounterPunch, August 29, 2008.
• One Billion Pills Later:  The Viagra Decade & the Crisis of Masculinity, CounterPunch, September 20, 2008.
• The Great Fear:  The Sexual Politics of Sarah Palin, CounterPunch, September 27, 2008.
• A New Sexual Agenda:  Nine Proposals for President-Elect Obama & the New Democratic Congress to End the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, November 28, 2008.

2007

• The Teen Abstinence-Only Crusade: Bush’s Domestic Sex Policy, CounterPunch, January 12, 2007.
• Pay-to-Play:  The Double-Life of Prostitution in America, CounterPunch, January 27, 2007.
• To Cut or Not to Cut:  Male Circumcision in America, CounterPunch, March 2, 2007
• An American Obituary: Anne Nicole Smith and the Exploitation of Nature, CounterPunch, March 24-25, 2007.
• The New Disappeared:  Sex Offenders, Civil Confinement & the Resurrection of Evil, CounterPunch, May 10, 2007.
• The Hidden Cost of War: American Women Warriors & the War on Terror, CounterPunch, June 23-24, 2007.
• Moral Hypocrisy, Yet Again:  The Christian Right, Sexual Scandal & the Sexual Pleasures of the Courtesan, CounterPunch, July 17, 2007.
• America’s Top Ten Political Sex Scandals:  James Buchanan, the First Gay President, and Other Tales of Sex and Power in Washington, CounterPunch, August 1, 2007.
• The Case of Genarlow Wilson:  Racism, Justice & Age-of-Consent Laws in America, CounterPunch, August 14, 2007.
• The GOP Outed All-Stars:  The Forced Freeing of Gay Men from the Republican Closet, CounterPunch, August 29, 2007
• Slugger Sex:  Athletes, Violence & Male Sexuality, CounterPunch, September 22, 2007.
• Women Warriors & the War on Terror, Z-magazine, October 1, 2007
• Deviants on Parade:  Folsom Street Fair & America’s 4^th Sexual Revolution, CounterPunch, October 20, 2007.
• The Scarlet Hypocrites:  Republican Politicians, Christian Conservatives & the All-American Sin of Adultery, CounterPunch, November 17, 2007.
• Senior Sex: The Real Sex Life of Aging Americans, CounterPunch, November 24, 2007.
• Porn in the Closet:  Mitt Romney’s Secret Life as a Pornographer, CounterPunch, December 20, 2007.

2006

• Bush’s Foreign Sex Policy:  Imperialism’s Second Front, CounterPunch, December 22, 2006.
• Made in China: The Sex-Toy Invasion, CounterPunch, December 2, 2006.
• Those Who Preach in Glass Houses:  Ted Haggard & the Eclipse of Evangelical Fury, CounterPunch, November 15, 2006.
• Perversions of Power: Mark Foley and the Bush Administration, CounterPunch, October 27, 2006.
• Sex Panic on Capitol Hill:  Rep. Foley & the Politics of Sex in America, CounterPunch, October 10, 2006.

 

 

 

• Pornography and the Erotic Phantasmagoria, Sexuality & Culture, accepted, July 29, 2022; https://trebuchet.public.springernature.app/get_content/7cee1373-1094-4fe7-ad56-978c7756b514

• America’s Broadband Crisis: Making of a 21^st Century Cartel, Monthly Review, September 23, 2021.https://mronline.org/2021/09/23/americas-broadband-crisis-the-making-of-a-twenty-first-century-cartel/

• “Sex Wars: How Sexual Pleasure Became a $50 Billion Industry and Subverted the Culture Wars,” Sexuality, Gender & Policy, vol 2, no. 1, June 27, 2019.  https://doi.org/10.1002/sgp2.12004

• “Secrets of the Sexual Fetish: How Sin Became the New Normal,” Logos, a journal of modern society & culture, Summer 2016, Vol. 15, Nos. 2-3.; http://logosjournal.com/2016/rosen/

• “Sexual Terrorism,” Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia on Gender and Sexuality (2016); http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118663219.wbegss004/full

• Sexting & the Pornographic Imagination — Where the “Digital Pubic, Digital Private” Intersect PP Presentation, “Media In Transition,” MIT Media Lab, 2013. MiT-Sexting.pdf

• “Sexual Politics in the Age of Obama: Assessing Obama’s First Term,” in Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion, ed. Jeffrey St. Clair (AK Press, 2012); http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1849351104/counterpunchmaga

• “’130 Parties in 30 Days” in The Political Edge, ed. Chris Carlsson (City Lights Books, 2004).

 

2024

• Empire of Purity: The History of Americans’ Global War on Prostitution, by Eva Payne, New York Journal of Books, December 28, 2024.
• Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People – and the Fight To Resist It by Ari Berman, New York Journal of Books, May 27, 2024.
• Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar by Cynthia Carr, New York Journal of Books,  April 29, 2024.
• Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns, New York Journal of Books, March 5, 2024
• American Poly: A History by Christopher M. Gleason, New York Journal of Books, January 22, 2024.

2023

• Fag Hag by Lola Miesseroff.  New York Journal of Books, October 3, 2023.

• Polymath: The Life and Professions of Dr. Alex Comfort, author of The Joy of Sex by Eric Laursen. New York Journal of Books, August 22, 2023.

• Up Against the Real: Black Mask and the Art of Action, by Nadja Millner-Larsen, New York Journal of Books, March 7, 2023.

• Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism – and What Comes Next, by Bradley Onishi, New York Journal of Books, February 16, 2023.

2022

• Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire by Jonathan M. Katz, New York Journal of Books, February 14, 2022.
• The Next Civil War:  Dispatches from the American Future by Stephen Marche, New York Journal of Books, February 4, 2022.

2021

• Julian Assange in His Own Words, compiled and edited by Karen Sharp, New York Journal of Books, December 14, 2021.
• Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age by Debbie Applegate, New York Journal of Books, November 29, 2021.
• America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton, New York Journal of Books, May 24, 2021.
• The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End Deafness by Katie Booth, New York Journal of Books, April 5, 2021.

2020

• White Fright: The Sexual Panic at the Heart of America’s Racist History by Jane Dailey, New York Journal of Books, November 24, 2020.
• The Riches of This Land: The Untold, True Story of America’s Middle Class by Jim Tankersley, New York Journal of Books, September 11, 2020.
• In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Actions by Vicky Osterwell, New York Journal of Books, September 2, 2020.
• What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo: Essays on Sex, Authority and the Mess of Life by JoAnn Wypijewski, New York Journal of Books, July 9, 2020.
• The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism by Katherine Stewart, New York Journal of Books, March 19, 2020.

2019

• A Warning by Annoymous, New York Journal of Books, December 23, 2019.
• American Radicals: How 19th Century Protest Shaped the Nation by Holly Jackson, New York Journal of Books, October 7, 2019.
• The End of Roe v. Wade: Inside the Right’s Plan to Destroy Legal Abortion by Robin Marty and Jessica Mason Pieklo, New York Journal of Books, August 31, 2019.
• We’re Still Here: Pain and Politics in the Heart of America by Jennifer M. Silva, New York Journal of Books, August 15, 2019, 2019.
• Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America by Christopher Leonard, New York Journal of Books, August 12, 2019, 2019.
• After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism: Taking Back a Revolution by Lynn Chancer; New York Journal of Books, February 5, 2019.
• Handbook for a Post-Roe America by Robin Marty; New York Journal of Books, January 21, 2019.

2018

• Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That is Shaping the Next Economy by Nathan Schneider; New York Journal of Books, October 17, 2018.
• Giants: The Global Power Elite by Peter Phillips; New York Journal of Books, October 3, 2018.
• The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy by Mariana Mazzucato; New York Journal of Books, September 25, 2018.
• The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison “Promiscuous” Women by Scott W. Stern; New York Journal of Books, June 26, 2018.
• The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis; New York Journal of Books, March 13, 20018.

2017

• The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition by Linda Gordon; New York Journal of Books, December 17, 2017.
• The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido by David Friend; New York Journal of Book, November 3, 2017.
• True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Emily Skidmore; New York Journal of Books, October 2, 2017.
• Sex in the Digital Age, Paul Nixon and Isabel K. Düsterhöft, eds., (Routledge, 2017); New York Journal of Books, September 25, 2018
• The War on Sex, David M. Halperin and Trevor Hoppe, eds; New York Journal of Book, June 5, 2017.
• Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics by Kim Phillips-Fein; New York Journal of Book, May 26, 2017.
• Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century, by Geoffrey R. Stone; New York Journal of Books, April 11, 2017.
• Respectability on Trial: Sex Crimes in New York City, 1900–1918 by Brian Donovan; New York Journal of Books, March 20, 2017.  
• Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957 by Nancy Raquel Mirabel; New York Review of Books, February 13, 2017.

2016

• Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism, by Chris Jennings (review), Sexuality & Culture, 20, no 2 (June 2016).
• The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s, Mariah Adlin (review), Sexuality and Culture, #20, v. 1, pp. 192-94 (January 2016).

2013

• Pinkerton’s Great Detective: The Amazing Life and Times of James McParland by Beau Riffenburgh; The Brooklyn Rail, December 2013.
• Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker; The Brooklyn Rail, September 2013.
• Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, 
Corporate Power, and Public Resistance by Heidi Boghosian; The Brooklyn Rail, September 2013.
• The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village by John Strausbaug; The Brooklyn Rail, June 2013.
• Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom and the Anti-Communist Purge by Marjorie Heins; The Brooklyn Rail, April 2013.
• Delirium: The Politics of Sex in America by Nancy Cohen; The Brooklyn Rail, February 2013.

2012

• New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham by Steven Jaffe; The Brooklyn Rail, September 2012.
• Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt’s Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York by Richard Zacks; The Brooklyn Rail, May 2012.
• Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance by Emily Bernard and Jews and Booze by Marni Davis; The Brooklyn Rail, April 2012.
• Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality by Margot Weiss; The Brooklyn Rail, March 2012.
• Adventures in the Orgasmatron:
 How the Sexual Revolution Came to America by Christopher Turner; The Brooklyn Rail, February 2012.

2011

• Capital of the World:
 A Portrait of New York City in the Roaring Twenties by David Wallace; Brooklyn Rail,October 2011.
• Stayin’ Alive: the 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class by Jefferson Cowie;
 Rebel Rank and File: Labor Militancy and Revolt from Below During the Long 1970s by Aaron Brenner, Robert Brenner and Cal Winslow; and The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism, Dan Berger, ed.; The Brooklyn Rail, July-August, 2011
• The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy by Lisa Dodson; Brooklyn Rail, May 2011
• The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom by Evgeny Morozov; The Brooklyn Rail, April 2011.
• Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer — and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson; The Brooklyn Rail, March 2011.
• A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell; The Brooklyn Rail, February 2011.