Forthcoming Book
- A Renegade History of the United States (Free Press/Simon & Schuster), 2010.
Opinion Journalism
- "Is Ultimate Fighting Gay?" The Daily Beast, October 31, 2009
- "Why Liberals Kill," The Daily Beast, October 17, 2009
- "Is President Obama Continuing Conservative Education Policies?" New York Magazine, October 11, 2009
- "How Young Is Too Young?" The Daily Beast, October 1, 2009
- "Michael Moore, Bible Thumper," New York Magazine, September 27, 2009
- "The Truth About Labor Day," Boston Globe, September 6, 2009
- "Beyonce Knowles, Freedom Fighter," Salon, August 31, 2006
- "Bob the Workaholic," Boston Globe, April 16, 2006
- "Country Music Tuned to War," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 21, 2005
- "Is Rap Tomorrow's Jazz?" Los Angeles Times, August 16, 2005
- "Workers of the World . . . Disunite!" Christian Science Monitor, July 6, 2005 [with Jonathan Cutler]
Scholarly Publications
- "The Color of Discipline: Civil Rights and Black Sexuality," American Quarterly, March 2008
- "Citizenship and the Problem of Desire in the Postwar Labor and Civil Rights Movements," in Mark Carnes, ed., The Columbia History of Post-World War II America (Columbia University Press, June, 2007)
- Out of the Jungle: Jimmy Hoffa and the Remaking of the American Working Class (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001)
