I'm a writer. I'm interested in books, sports, art, statistics, higher education, philosophy, science, critical theory, pop culture, and the social sciences, among many other things. I'm also a lawyer.
These are my essays:
- Glenn Kessler sucks and that's a fact: a history and critique of political fact checkers. (July 2, 2019, The Outline.) Also check out my appearance on the excellent Citations Needed podcast discussing the essay. (July 17, 2019.)
- Against Generational Politics: a refutation of the bad story of generations. (Feb. 28, 2018, Jacobin.)
- Donald Trump Is Buckley’s Rightful Heir: an argument that Donald Trump is reaping what the conservative movement has sown. (Nov. 5, 2016, Jacobin.)
- The Summer of Simulacra: On Grey and Go Set a Watchman: I talk about two contenders for book of the summer in an age of derivative media. (Sept. 22, 2015, Gawker.)
- I Was A Quizbowl Champion: a long essay about what collegiate academic competition means to me and my fellow quizbowlers. (June 4, 2015, Deadspin.)
And my scholarly work:
- Hurricane Dolores: a short article proposing a source of inspiration for the character name "Dolores Haze" in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. (Sept. 11, 2025, The Nabokovian.)
And my reviews:
- Capital and Ideology...And Philanthropy: a review of Thomas Piketty's book Capital and Ideology. (May 28, 2020, HistPhil.)
- Liberate the Meritocrats—From Their Bosses (co-authored with Marshall Steinbaum): a review of Daniel Markovits's book The Meritocracy Trap. (March 9, 2020, Yale LPE.) Marshall and I also had the chance to have a dialogue with Markovits about his book.
Please read them and justify my editors' faith in their clickability.
I'm at hartam@gmail.com or @the_moma.
