Archive - The Complaint

My new essay in The New Critic

Nostalgia, trauma, and the politics of memory

Jul 22

May 2025

Mr. Schmitt Goes to Washington

A report from CPAC and the DOGE party

May 27

March 2024

Weininger's Grave

Six or so hours in Vienna

Mar 26, 2024

July 2023

The Complaint's Book Review Smorgasbord Special

An Elemental Thing and Darkness at Noon

Jul 25, 2023

The Good Contrarian

The life and writings of Nat Hentoff

Jul 16, 2023

When Affirmative Action was Female

Investigating a popular claim

Jul 9, 2023

June 2023

Seeing Like a Dunce

How Certain Schemes to Coast Off of Vibes Have Failed

Jun 22, 2023

No such thing as a free lunch

A daylong inquiry into the new conservative economics, if it exists

Jun 16, 2023

Sockdem's Complaint is now The Complaint

Get it straight, before it's too late.

Jun 15, 2023

April 2023

One in the magazine

On my extended love affair with periodicals

Apr 11, 2023

November 2022

Peer review (weird version)

An incoherent rant about interpreting an interesting study about COVID deaths

Nov 12, 2022

August 2022

The marketplace of memes

Or, trafficking in the absurd

Aug 4, 2022

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