On Trade Offs and Liberalism

The Politics of False Promise: New Labour and Barack Obama, New Ledger, May 19, 2010. "The lesson of New Labour’s fall has been lost in the United States. It should not be, for New Labour’s fate will also be Barack Obama’s. Unlike Tony Blair, Obama won high office at a time of foreign and domestic crisis. But he has doubled down by applying New Labour’s political and governing strategies nonetheless."

Who's Responsible for Educational Failure in Britain?

Eugenics and Class in Brit Schools, Contentions, May 13, 2009. This was not the title I submitted for this piece, and I do not endorse the title it was published under.