Publications – 2019-2015

2019

• The Likely End to Roe v. Wade?, CounterPunch, September 13, 2019.
• Koch’s America: The Rule of the New Robber Barons, CounterPunch, September 6, 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, 2019.
• Sex Work & the Presidential Campaign, CounterPunch, August 30, 2019
• The White-Nationalist Great Fear, CountPunch, August 23, 2019.
• We’re Still Here: Pain and Politics in the Heart of Americaby Jennifer M. Silva, New York Journal of Books, August 15, 2019, 2019.
• Postmodern Sexual Identity, CounterPunch, August 12, 2019.
• ERA Back from the Grave?, CounterPunch, July 26, 2019.
• Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in Americaby Christopher Leonard, New York Journal of Books, August 12, 2019, 2019.
• Say Goodbye to MAD, But Remember the Fight for Free Expression, CounterPunch, July 19, 2019.
• The Epstein Affair: Take #2, CounterPunch, July 10, 2019.
• Sanctions: Failure of U.S. Foreign Policy, CounterPunch, July 5, 2019.
• What Happened to Obscenity?, CounterPunch, June 28, 2019.
• Sex Wars: How Sexual Pleasure Became a $50 Billion Industry and Subverted the Culture Wars, Sexuality, Gender & Policy (forthcoming).
• Time to Break-Up the 21st Century Tech Trust, CounterPunch, June 14, 2019.
• Taking on the FCC: Unraveling a $500 Billion Rip-Off, CounterPunch, June 7, 2019.
• The Lost Art of Nude Fan Dancing, book reviews, Sexuality & Culture, May 22, 2019
• Florida’s Sex Wars: The Battle to Decriminalize Sex Work, CounterPunch, May 17, 2019.
• Suicide: An American Nightmare, CounterPunch, May 10, 2019.
• Trump and False Consciousness, CounterPunch, April 26, 2019.
• Trump’s One-Dimensional Gender Identity, CounterPunch, April 19, 2019.
• Abortion Wars Get Meaner, CounterPunch, April 12, 2019.
• Facebook Follies: Incompetence, Willful Blindness or the Profit Motive?, CounterPunch, April 5, 2019.
• Where Do the Democratic Candidates Stand?, CounterPunch, March 29, 2019.
• Trafficking or Commercial Sex?: What Recent Exposes Reveal, CounterPunch, March 22, 2019.
• America’s Puppet: Meet Juan Guaido, CounterPunch, March 15, 2019.
• “Death by Despair”: Trump and the White Working Class, CounterPunch, March 8, 2019.
• Remember the Maine?: CIA Intervention in Venezuela, CounterPunch, March 3, 2019.
• Will Venezuela Crisis Split Democrats?, CounterPunch, February 22, 2019.
• Will Trump Resign Before the 2020 Election?, CounterPunch, February 12, 2019.
• After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism: Taking Back a Revolution by Lynn Chancer, New York Journal of Books, February 5, 2019.
• The Denier-in-Chief: Trump and the Legitimation of False Consciousness, CounterPunch, February 1, 2019.
• Roe: Preparing for the Worst, CounterPunch, January 24, 2019.
• Handbook for a Post-Roe America by Robin Marty, New York Journal of Books, January 21, 2019.
• The Biden Band-Aid: Will Democrats Contain the Insurgency?, CounterPunch, January 18, 2018.
• Sexual Predators in the Era of Trump, CounterPunch, January 11, 2019.
• Nixon and Trump: Bookends to the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, January 2, 2019.

2018

• December 17th: International Day to End the Violence against Sex Workers, CounterPunch, December 17, 2018.
• The Swamp Stinks: Trump & Washington’s Rot, CounterPunch, December 9, 2018.
• Conversion Therapy is Fake Medicine, Progressive, November 30, 2018.
• The Abortion Battle Continues, CounterPunch, November 30, 2018.
• Amazon Deal: New York Taxpayers Fund World’s Biggest Sex-Toy Retailer, CounterPunch, November 19, 2018.
• It’s Time to Decriminalize Sex Work, CounterPunch, November 9, 2018.
• What Is To Be Done?:  Looking Past Trump’s Tyranny, CounterPunch, November 2, 2018.
• Trump”s HHS & the Renewed Culture Wars, CounterPunch, October 26, 2018.
• America’s Lost Souls: The New Lumpen-Proletariat?, CounterPunch, October 19, 2018.
• Packing the Court in the 21st Century, CounterPunch, October 12, 2018.
• Fake Abortion Clinics: “We’re Fighting Satan, CounterPunch, October, 5, 2018.
• Is the U.S. in a Pre-Fascist Period?, CounterPunch, September 28, 2018.
• Time to Decriminalize Prostitution, The Progressive, August 4, 2018.
• The Value of Everything:Making and Taking in the Global Economy, by Mariana Mazzucato, a review, New York Journal of Books, September 25, 2018.
• As the World Turns: From Empire to Imperialism to Globalization?, CounterPunch, September 21, 2018.
• Why Stop at Roe: How “Settled Law” Can be Overturned, CounterPunch, September 21, 2018.
• When a Kiss is Not a Kiss, CounterPunch, September 7, 2018.
• Prostitution in the Age of Trump, CounterPunch, July 27, 2018.
• Trump’s Fake Boom: Growing Despair Amidst Insecure Economic Recovery, Counterpunch, August 31, 2018.
• Hate Gets it Done: Why America is Far Scarier Than Trump, CounterPunch, August 24, 2018.
• It’s Time to Decriminalize Sex Work, The Progressive, August 14, 2018.
• Trump’s Politics: Power, Powerlessness and the Perfect Target, CounterPunch, August 7, 2018,
• Prostitution in the Age of Trump, CounterPunch, July 27, 2018.
• Trump’s Supreme Pick Escalates America’s War on Sex, CounterPunch, July 20, 2018.
• The New McCarthyism: Is the Electric Chair Next for the Left?, CounterPunch, July 13, 2018.
• Lest We Forget: Recalling the Second Culture Wars, CounterPunch, June 29, 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
• Thin Red Line: Flirting v Harassment, CounterPunch, May 9, 2018.
• The War on Sex Trafficking: A Culture Wars’ Racket, CounterPunch, April 27, 2018.
• Trump v. Kennedy: Presidential Sex Scandals and the Transformation of Shame, CounterPunch, April 13, 2018.
• Its Time to Radically Redistribute Social Wealth, CounterPunch, April 6, 2018.
• The Future Adventures of the President and the Porn Star, CounterPunch, March 22, 2018.
• The Most Dangerous Man in the World: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive Kind of LSD by  Bill Minutanglio and Steven L. Davis, New York Journal of Books, March 13, 2018.
• Can Class Struggle and Identity Politics Be Reconciled?, CounterPunch, March 9, 2018.
• Killing by the Number: How Many More to Follow?, CounterPunch, March 1, 2018.
• For Some Reason, Being White Still Matter, CounterPunch, February, 23, 2018.
• Donald Trump’s Pathetic Sex Life, CounterPunch, February 13, 2018.
• Will Tump Make It Through Year Two, Counterpunch, February 8, 2018.
• Why Trump’s Support is Slipping, CounterPunch, January 31, 2018.
• From Moral Outrage to Moral Panic: the Limits of Public Rage, CounterPunch, January 29, 2018
• The New Gilded Age: First Time Arrogance, the Second Time Vengeance, CounterPunch, January 9, 2018.

2017

• • What Happened to the 40-hr Workweek?, CounterPunch, December 29, 2017.
  • Is It Time to Decriminalize Prostitution?, CouterPunch, December 18, 2017.
  • The Second Coming of the KKK: The Klu Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition, by Linda Gordon, New York Journal of Book, December 17, 2017.
  • Politics Trumps Religion: The Immorality of the Republican “Christian” Morality, CounterPunch, December 12, 2017
  • Century of the National Security State: A New Subversives List?, CounterPunch, November 29, 2017.
  • Lone-Wolf Terrorism: A Symptom of the Deepening Social Crisis, New Politics, November 10, 2017.
  • Of Sex Abusers and Sex Offenders, CounterPunch, November 17, 2017.
  • Terrorism & White Men’s Murderous Rage, CounterPunch, November 7, 2017.
  • Paul Robeson v. Jackie Robinson: A Lost Moment in American History, Black Star News, November 7, 2017
  • Is God Finally Dead?: The Triumph of Halloween’s Sacrilegious Celebrations, Counterpunch November 3, 2017.
  • The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido by David Friend, New York Journal of Books, November 3, 2017.
  • Male Sexual Violence: As American as Cherry Pie, CounterPunch, October 20, 2017.

• Trump & the 21^st Century Family, CounterPunch, October 10, 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.
• “Bag-the-Fag”: Entrapping Sex Offenders, CounterPunch, September 29, 2017.
• Populist vs. Progressives: Are They Still Relevant?, CounterPunch, September 15, 2017.
• What Gender?: The Evolving Definition of Sexual Identity, CounterPunch, September 15, 2017.
• Reactionary Rage: The Wars Against Those Who Threaten Those in Power, CounterPunch, September 7, 2017.
• Do Americans Have a Right to Sexual Pleasure?, CounterPunch, September 1, 2017.
• No More Politics as Usual, American Herald Tribune, August 30, 2017.
• When He Was King: Ali’s Come Back in Atlanta, Black Star News, August 29, 2017.
• Sex Robots: The Sad Future of Sexual Fantasy, CounterPunch, August 25, 2017.
• Would Trump Execute a False Terrorist Attack to Forestall Loss of Political Power, American Herald Tribune, August 23, 2017
• Permanent War, Permanent Failure, CounterPunch, August 18, 2017.
• Trump & Sex: From Up-Market Hedonist to Down-Market Moralists, CounterPunch, August 11, 2017.
• America’s Five Sex Panics, CounterPunch, July 21, 2017.
• Trump & the Commodity of Self, CounterPunch, July 14, 2017.
• Has the “Working Class” Lost Its Meaning?, CounterPunch, June 30, 2017.
• The Sex Offender: The 21^st Century Witch, CounterPunch, June 23, 2017.
• An End to Conversion Therapy?, CounterPunch, June 12, 2017.
• The War on Sex, David M. Halperin and Trevor Hoppe, editors, New York Journal of Book, June 5, 2017.
• What’s Going on in New York?, CounterPunch, June 2, 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.
• Politics and the Agent of Social Change, CounterPunch, May 12, 2017.
• The Sexual State of the Nation: Less Sex, Higher Anxiety, CounterPunch, May 12, 2017.
• Melania Trump: Another First Lady as Good Wife?, CounterPunch, May 5, 2017.
• Inequality: Trump’s Challenge, Trump’s Failure, CounterPunch, May 1, 2017.
• Fiction, Fake News and Trump’s Sexual Politics, CounterPunch, April 21, 2017.
• Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century, by Geoffrey R.   New York Journal of Books, April 11, 2017.
• Countdown to Disaster: Trump’s Looning Afghan Crisis, CounterPunch, March 31, 2017.
• Why Did Trump Target Transgender Youth?, CounterPunch, March 24, 2017.
• Popular Insurgency: Reshaping the Politican Landscape, CounterPunch, March 21, 2017.
• Respectability on Trial: Sex Crimes in New York City, 1900–1918,by Brian Donovan, New York Journal of Books, March 20, 2017.  
• Clueless in the Face of Crisis: Democrats Continue to Flounder, CounterPunch, March 10, 2017.
• Sexual Violence: Who Perpetrates It & Who Suffers, CounterPunch, March 3, 2017.
• Suspect Feedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957, by Nancy Raquel Mirabel, book review, New York Review of Books, February 13, 2017.
• Pigs at the Trough: Privatization of the Public Good, CounterPunch, February 3, 2017.
• The New Censorship Wars Begin: Porn, Sex Trafficking & Backpage, CounterPunch, January 27, 2017.
• Globalization vs Empire: Can Trump Contain the Growing Split?, CounterPunch, January 20, 2017.
• Return of the Repressed: Trump & the Renewal of the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, January 13, 2017.
• Secrets of the Bible Belt: Trump, Porn & the Making of the New South, CounterPunch, January 6, 2017.

2016

• Could It Have Been Different?, CounterPunch, December 30, 2016.
• What Happens When the Trump Bubble Bursts?, CounterPunch, December 20, 2106.
• State Power & Terror: From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock, CounterPunch, December 6,, 2016.
• Return of HUAC?, CounterPunch, December 2, 2016.
• Perversions of Power: Trump’s Hedonism vs. Pence’s Puritanism, CounterPunch, November 25, 2016.
• A New Conception of Sexual Violence, CounterPunch, November 11, 2016.
• 16 And Not Pregnant: A Shift in the Culture War Unearthed by This Election, AlterNet, November 7, 2016.
• The War on Drugs is a Racket, CounterPunch, October 21, 2016.
• Was Bill Clinton the Most Sexist President?, CounterPunch, October 20, 2016.
• What Happened to the Culture War?  CounterPunch, October 7, 2016.
• The Great Fear:  Miscegenation, Race “Pollution” and the 2016 Election.  CounterPunch. August 19, 2016.
• The Crack-Up: Is the Two-Party System Splintering?, CounterPunch, August 12, 2016.
• Meet Ela Darling: The 21st Century’s First VR Porn Star, AlterNet, August 8, 2016.
• Culture War & 2016 Election, CounterPunch, August 5, 2016.
• Lone-Wolf Terrorism: The Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost, CounterPunch, July 15, 2016.
• Are We Entering an Era of Postmodern Serfdom?, CounterPunch, July 8, 2016.
• What Happened to Utopia?, CounterPunch, July 1, 2016.
• Birth-Control Wars: Two Centuries of Struggle, CounterPunch, June 29, 2016.
• Americans Work to Long for Too Little, CounterPunch, June 24-26, 2016.
• The 1% Have Always Ruled America, Truthout, June 20, 2016.
• Privatization of the Public Sphere, CounterPunch, May 20, 2016.
• Verizon Strike Exposes Broader Shifts in Telecom Labor Conditions, TruthOut, May 13, 2016.
• VR Sex: The Future of Porn?, CounterPunch,  May 13, 2016.
• Job Satisfaction Under Perpetual Stagnation, CounterPunch, April 29-31, 2016.
• Crime & Public Shaming, CounterPunch, April 15-17, 2016.
• Culture War Zombies: The Latest Anti-Gay Campaign, CounterPunch, April 8-10, 2016.
• Will America Ever Be Great Again?, CounterPunch, March 25, 2016.
• Illegal Drugs, Race & the 2016 Election, CounterPunch, March 18-20, 2016.
• An American Nightmare: Pres. Donald Trump Faces a National Security Crisis, CounterPunch, March 16, 2016.
• Corruption, USA, CounterPunch, March 11-13, 2016.
• Trump & the Crisis of Masculinity, CounterPunch, February 26-28, 2016.
• 21st Century Public Shaming, CounterPunch, February 19-21, 2016.
• When Trump Confronted a Transsexual Beauty, CounterPunch, February 12-14, 2016.
• New Dogs, Old Barks: The Culture Wars Recalibrated, CounterPunch, January 29-31, 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).
• Trump and GOP Promise to Maintain Diminishing “White Skin” Privilege, Black Star News, January 11, 2016.

2015

• Trump’s Enemies List: A Trial Balloon for More Repression, CounterPunch, November 24, 2015.
• NYPD: The New Red Squad, CounterPunch, November 13-15, 2015.
• If Donald Dump Was President, CounterPunch, October 9, 2015.`
• The Night Josephine Baker Never Got Her Steak, Black Star News, October 7, 2015.
• New York City’s 1900 “Race Riot,” Black Star News, September 21, 2015.
• The Great Disillusionment, CounterPunch, September 11-13, 2015.
• 16 and Pregnant: Can Realty TV Promote Positive Social Change?, Documentary Television, September 1, 2015.
• Rebellion Or Riots?: History Of Race-Based Confrontations In The United States, Black Star News, August 31, 2015.
• Billie Holiday: Enduring Relevance of “Strange Fruit,” Black Star New, August 27, 2015.
• Class vs. Culture: Reframing Political Struggle, CounterPunch, August 21-23, 2015.
• Hillary Clinton: Learn From Your Sisters, CounterPunch, July 31-August 2, 2015.