About

I’m a Contributing Editor at Harper’s, and write about national politics for Vanity Fair. I’ve written for The New YorkerThe New York Times Magazine, and the London Review of Books, among many others. I was a 2022 Alicia Patterson Fellow, and have received support from from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. I live in Los Angeles, where I help run a native plant nursery. My first book is called Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West.

I have appeared on Real Time With Bill Maher, All In With Chris Hayes, NPR’s Today Explained, and lots of other TV and radio shows or podcasts. Some of my recent favorites were:

From The New World, with Brian Chau

The New Models Podcast

The Doomer Optimism Podcast with Donald Antenen