ESSAYS AND REVIEWS
‘What Does Fluffy Think?’: on bestiality, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (2021)
‘The Sex Wars’: on feminist fragmentation, NEW YORKER (2021)
‘What’s Wrong With Sex Between Professors and Students? It’s Not What You Think’, NEW YORK TIMES (2021)
The Politics of Safety, FINANCIAL TIMES (2021)
F Letter Footnotes, Foreword to F LETTER: NEW RUSSIAN FEMINIST POETRY, Isolarii (2020)
The Belly of the Beast: on whales, NEW YORKER (2020)
He, She, One, They, Ho, Hus, Hum, Ita: on pronouns, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (2020)
Busy Bodies: what termites can teach us, NEW YORKER (2018)
The Right to Sex: on the political critique of desire, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (2018)
More Equal Than Others: review of Jeremy Waldron’s One Another’s Equals, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (2018)
Silent Treatment: review of The Incest Diary, by Anonymous, HARPER’S (2018)
Sharky Waters: on sharks and surfing, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (2018)
The Sucker, The Sucker!: on octopuses, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (2017)
Remembering Derek Parfit, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS blog (2017)
A Righteous Fury: review of Martha Nussbaum’s Anger and Forgiveness, THE NATION (2016)
Under Rhodes: on Rhodes Must Fall, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (2016)
This Won’t Hurt: review of Simon Critchley’s Notes on Suicide, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (2016)
Stop the Robot Apocalypse: the New Utilitarians: on effective altruism, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (2015)
All The Same: review of L.A. Paul’s Transformative Experience, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (2015)
After the Meteor Strike: Death: review of Samuel Scheffler’s Death and the Afterlife, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (2014)
Armed and Ludicrous: on North Korea, TANK Magazine (2013)
In The Long Cool Hour: Pragmatic Naturalism: review of Philip Kitcher’s The Ethical Project, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (2012)
Laboratory v Armchair: review of Tamar Gendler’s Intuition, Imagination and Philosophical Methodology, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (2011)
SHORTS
Back on Strike: on universities, teaching, work and love, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS Blog (2019)
How Oxford Works; How Oxford Works, Continued; How Oxford May Actually Work, After All: three pieces on Oxford’s role in the 2018 pensions dispute, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS Blog (2018)
The Distinction Between an Argument and its Likely Effects: on disability and Peter Singer, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS Blog (2017)
That Thing’s Coming Down Today: on the legacy of slavery at Yale, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS Blog (2016)
How to Reach Your Full Potential: on Mark Zuckerberg, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS Blog (2015)
Psychopathic Dog Haters: on Crufts, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS Blog (2015)
Extremist Ideas: on counterterrorism, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS Blog (2015)
Damn the Dishes: on the Serial podcast, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS Blog (2014)
At 195 Mare Street: on squatting, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS Blog (2013)
Dependents of the State, The Stone, NEW YORK TIMES (2013)