Selected Media

Commentary and Policy Articles

Reason Foundation (2025): What election results reveal about the future of criminal justice reform.

Inside Higher Ed (2025): New Frontiers for Neutrality: Academic Unions

Inquisitive Magazine (2025): A Field Guide to Criminology

Discourse Magazine (2025): Is It Time for End-of-College Board Exams?

Reason Foundation (2024): State secrecy laws are anti-free market and anti-democratic

Hypertext (2024): Giving Power to Truth: The vexing political economy of capital requirements.

Reason Foundation (2024): California Proposition 3 amends state constitution to recognize same-sex marriage

Reason Foundation (2024): Colorado Amendment J removes language banning same-sex marriage from state constitution

Reason Foundation (2024): Hawaii constitutional amendment would remove legislative authority to ban same-sex marriage

Discourse Magazine (2024): The New Oracles of G enerative AI (with Jared Feuer).

Arnold Ventures (2023): Historic Bipartisan Justice Reform Turns Five

Discourse Magazine (2023): The Problem With Disabling

Foundation for Economic Education (2022): Where Criminal Justice Reform Stands After the 2022 Midterms

Real Clear Education (2021): Amid Layoffs, Union Contracts Force Public Colleges to Ignore Merit

New York Times (2020): Let Bernie Madoff, and Many More, Out of Prison

Podcasts and Radio

Reason podcast with Nick Gillespie (2023) - Why Donald Trump Signed the First Step Act

Converging Dialogues (2023)

Sorry not Sorry with Alyssa Milano (2023)

The Future of Incarceration with Owen Bennett-Jones (2023)

On the Count: The Prison and Criminal Justice Report on WBAI (2023)

Behind the News with Doug Henwood (2018)

Talk Radio Europe (2017)

Talks and Appearances

Haim Striks School of Law (2026): Degrees of Chill? The Impact of Political Statement-Making on Faculty.

Heterodox Academy (2025): The duties and responsibilities of scholars.

Heterodox Academy, (2024): The Danger of Monolithic Thinking in Academia.

CSPAN, Washington Journal (2023): Criminal Justice Reform and the Fifth Anniversary of the First Step Act

University of New England Talk (2023): Reform Nation

Ethical Humanist Society Talk (2023): Narratives of the Heart in Criminal Justice Reform

University of New England Talk (2020): The Worst of the Worst and Criminal Justice Reform

The Madoff Affair Documentary (2019)

Bernie Madoff: The White Collar Criminal Documentary (2018)