Position Title
Continuing Lecturer
Tuesday 4:00 to 5:30p.m via Zoom
Research Areas:
I write on politics, social justice themes, economic inequality, immigration. I have written three books on the criminal justice system. I also write memoirs, travel writing, and essays on tennis.
Teaching Areas:
Biography:
I have taught for nearly 30 years, and I have been a freelance journalist and book author for 32 years. I am a columnist and feature writer for the Nation magazine, have published in many of the top magazines and newspapers in the US and the UK, and am the author of ten books. My eleventh, titled American Carnage: How Trump, Musk and DOGE Butchered the US Government, is published in January.
Education:
BA in politics, philosophy and economics from Balliol College, Oxford (1993).
MS in journalism, from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism (1994)
Awards:
I have won many journalism awards over the years, including two PASS awards on my criminal justice reporting. My book on the tennis player Lottie Dod was shortlisted for the prestigious William Hill Sports Book of the Year award.
Publications:
Nation magazine, Atlantic, NYRB, New York Times, The New Republic, American Prospect, Mother Jones, Chronicle of Higher Education, London Guardian, New Statesman, Salon, Slate, New Yorker online, Daily Beast, Truthout, Los Angeles Weekly, Boston Globe, Sacramento Bee, Sacramento Magazine, Sunday Telegraph, Observer, and dozens of other publications.