Clips
Gender
- “The Women Who Had Five Or More Kids on Purpose Think They Know Something You Don’t” (Slate, April 20, 2024)
- “I Just Spent 10 Hours Listening to Marriage Advice From a Power Couple That Went Kaput. Whew” (Slate, May 5, 2021)
- “A Modern Feminist Classic Changed My Life. Was It Actually Garbage?” (Slate, March 30, 2021)
- “‘I’ve Never Wanted To Be Told What To Do'” (on the resignation of CrossFit’s Greg Glassman) (Slate, June 12, 2020)
- “How ‘She Just Wants Attention’ Became America’s Hottest Sexist Insult” (Slate, April 4, 2016)
- “The Warped World of Marriage Advice Before Feminism” (Aeon Magazine, September 8, 2014)
Parenting & Childhood
- “I Changed My Mind About Kids and Phones. I Hope Everyone Else Does, Too” (Slate, March 29, 2024)
- “The Beautiful World of Zoom, The Short-Lived PBS Show That Once Had More Viewers Than Sesame Street“ (Slate, February 20, 2022)
- “Playing Good Cop” (a history of the Officer Friendly program) (Slate, August 27, 2020)
- “Who Are Feminist Baby Books For?” (Slate, October 7, 2019)
- “When Did Child Leashes Become Socially Unacceptable?” (Slate, August 5, 2019)
- “The Modern Expectation We Should Pretend-Play With Our Children Is Exhausting. Is There A Better Way?” (Slate, March 6, 2019)
- “Your Childcare Conundrum is an Anti-Communist Plot” (Slate, June 14, 2017)
- “Honey, You’re Scaring the Kids” (The Appendix, July 22, 2014)
Cooking & Food
Movies
- “Demi Moore’s Awards Narrative Is Extraordinary. Is Her Performance?” (Slate, February 23, 2025)
- “1917 Turns History’s Most Pointless War Into A Tale of Individual Heroism” (Slate, January 23, 2020)
- “Midsommar’s Real Villains Aren’t Murderous Pagans, They’re Grad Students” (Slate, July 12, 2019)
- “The Most Accurate Part of The Witch? It Nails the Desperate, Crazed Mindset of Early American Settlers” (Slate, February 29, 2016)
TV
- “What an ER Doctor Who’s Worked Multiple Mass Shootings Thinks of Those Episodes of The Pitt” (Slate, March 28, 2025)
- “The Problem With Bridgerton Is Becoming Hard to Ignore” (Slate, May 16, 2024)
- “Viewers Lost It Over A Horrifying Scene in the New Game of Thrones. History Tells Another Story” (Slate, August 25, 2022)
- “The Boys‘ Right-Wing Fans Just Had A Mind-Blowing Revelation” (Slate, June 25, 2022)
- “What You’re Missing If You’re Not Watching Yellowstone, the Biggest Show on Cable” (Slate, December 20, 2021)
Sex Reviews
Books
- “It’s the Biggest New Novel of the Year. It’s Almost Unreadably Bad” (review of The Women, by Kristin Hannah) (Slate, December 20, 2024)
- “Not Knowing” (review of Molly, by Blake Butler) (Slate, December 12, 2023)
- “Buckminster Fuller’s Greatest Invention” (review of Inventor of the Future, by Alec Nevala-Lee) (The New Republic, August 19, 2022)
- “Andy Borowitz Is Not Equal to the Moment” (review of Profiles in Ignorance, by Andy Borowitz) (Slate, September 18, 2022)
- “There Is No Parenting Utopia” (review of Hunt, Gather, Parent, by Michaeleen Doucleff) (Slate, March 6, 2021)
- “No Man’s Land” (review of The Pioneers, by David McCullough) (Slate, May 10, 2019)
- “Works of Prepper Fiction Reveal A Dark Truth About American Virtues” (Slate, October 6, 2016)
- “Is History Written About Men, By Men?” (Slate, January 6, 2016)
Personal Essays
- “People Are Manipulating Their Family Photos in a Weird New Way. I Don’t Think They Should” (Slate, May 29, 2023)
- “Elf Is a Documentary About My Life” (Slate, December 21, 2022)
- “My Daughter Is Obsessed With Gaston From Beauty and the Beast“ (Slate, April 8, 2021)
- “My Toddler Is Extremely Creepy. Should I Be Worried?” (Slate, October 30, 2020)
- “An Ode To ‘The Moms'” (Slate, May 9, 2019)
- “My Mom, Mary Oliver, Fancy Smart People, and Me” (Slate, January 17, 2019)
- “(French!) Kissing the Teen Mag Goodbye” (Slate, November 16, 2018)
Advice
Politics
- “Donald Trump, Jr. Has a New Magazine For Men. It’s Quite Something” (Slate, August 13, 2023)
- “The Insidious New Narrative About Mass Shootings” (Slate, January 27, 2023)
- “What People Who Insist They ‘Smell Weed Everywhere Now’ Are Really Saying” (Slate, July 22, 2022)
- “We’re Never Going To Have Our ‘Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir?’ Moment” (Slate, July 26, 2018)
- “The Liberal Delusion of #ResistanceGenealogy” (Slate, May 15, 2018)
History & Memory
- “The Right May Be Giving Up The ‘Lost Cause,’ But What Comes Next Could Be Worse” (Slate, June 25, 2021)
- “Did Helen Keller Really ‘Do All That’?” (Slate, February 26, 2021)
- “If ‘Living History’ Role-Plays in the Classroom Can So Easily Go Wrong, Why Do Teachers Keep Assigning Them?” (Slate, May 20, 2019)
- “Against ‘Generations'” (Aeon Magazine, May 19, 2015)
- “Letters of Note: The Internet’s Idea of History” (Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2014)
Little-Known Histories
- “The Fable of the Sick Anti-Vaxxer” (Slate, July 30, 2021)
- “The Real Story Behind Margot Robbie’s Wild Queen Elizabeth Makeup” (Slate, December 6, 2018)
- “Two, Four, Six, Eight, Who Do We Appreciate?: A Modern History of Childhood, in One Postgame Cheer” (Slate, June 4, 2018)
- “Andrew Jackson’s Adopted Indian Son” (Slate, April 29, 2016)
- “Boyhood: The Drawings of the 19th-Century Nelson Brothers” (Slate, May 28, 2015)
