Writing
I’m a frequent contributor to The New Republic, where I write mostly on democracy & ideas. My work has also appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, Foreign Policy, & elsewhere.
My writing includes reporting, analysis, criticism, peer-reviewed scholarship, & policy advocacy. All of it revolves around democracy & the public interest. I write for general audiences as well as academics, policymakers, & journalists – & love coauthoring work with clients & collaborators.
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On fighting misinformation. (New Republic, 06/2024). Print.
On David Graeber (New Republic, 05/2023). Print.
On premonitions (New Republic, 08/2022).
On cheerfulness & democracy (The Atlantic, 08/2022).
On Yascha Mounk (New Republic, 07/2022).
On political language (New Republic, 02/2022).
On accidental gods (New Republic, 12/2021). Print.
On Walt Whitman (New Republic, 10/2021).
On Niall Ferguson (New Republic, 06/2021).
On democratic charisma (New Republic, 08/2020).
On facilitated democracy (LARB, 08/2020).
On Habsburg climatology (The Atlantic, 11/2018).
On the 19th century (LARB, 09/2018).
On Nazi–fascist cultural diplomacy (New Republic, 05/2017).
On the global history of time (The Atlantic, 12/2015).
On queer Berlin (The Point, 06/2015). Print.
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On open letters (Slate, 02/2022).
On Angela Merkel’s Covid rhetoric (New Republic, 04/2020).
On Léon Werth & Vichy France (The Point, 11/2016).
On Trump & historical thinking (Chronicle of Higher Education, 03/2016). Print.
On the British historian Arnold Toynbee (Aeon Magazine, 06/2015).
On empathy & Silicon Valley (Chronicle of Higher Education, 10/2014). Print.
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On Zivilcourage & American democracy (Foreign Policy, 06/2021). Translated into German at Merkur.
On the nostalgia politics of the B.C. Green Party (New Republic, 12/2020).
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On Covid messaging beyond briefings (First Policy Response, 01/2021). With Heidi Tworek.
On Biden’s Covid messaging (New Republic, 12/2020). With Heidi Tworek.
On global Covid communications (Policy Options / Options Politiques, 11/2020). With Heidi Tworek & Eseohe Ojo.
On resetting Ontario’s Covid messaging (Ottawa Citizen, 10/2020). With Heidi Tworek.
On Germany’s democratic Covid lessons (GMFUS, 10/2020). With Heidi Tworek & Sudha David-Wilp.
On B.C.’s pandemic election (The Province, 09/2020). With Heidi Tworek.
*Democratic Health Communications during Covid-19: A RAPID Response. (09/2020) With Heidi Tworek & Eseohe Ojo. Vancouver: UBC Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions. 116pp.
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Hassoun, A., I. Beacock, S. Consolvo, B. Goldberg, P. G. Kelley, & D. Russell, “Practicing Information Sensibility: How Gen Z Engages with Online Information,” in Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany.
*Heartbroken: Democratic Emotions, Political Subjectivity, & the Unravelling of the Weimar Republic, 1918–1933. PhD dissertation, Department of History, Stanford University. 2018. 276pp.