For some media appearances, please consult the links below:

“Scratching the Record,” History News Network, July 8, 2025, on the long history of governments attempting to restrict access to documents about their inner workings

Interview with In Theory: The Podcast of the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on The Archive of Empire, April 9, 2025

Interview with the New Books Network on The Archive of Empire, February 19, 2025

Interview with “The American Vandal” podcast, Center for Mark Twain Studies, on information, corporations, and universities, December 23, 2024

Interview with the “American Campus” podcast on the history of trustees in higher ed, December 5, 2024

Interview with “Yeah, I Got an F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree” podcast on the humanities and the university after Spring 2024, October 8, 2024

Interview with “The American Vandal” podcast, Center for Mark Twain Studies, on the state of history in the contemporary moment, September 9, 2024

"The Imperial Origins of Big Data,” Yale University Press Blog, August 28, 2024

“Access Denied,” History News Network, August 27, 2024 (excerpt from The Archive of Empire)

Interview with “Yeah, I Got an F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree” podcast on the state of the humanities in higher ed, March 19, 2024

Interview with “The End of Sport” podcast on the current crisis in higher ed, February 29, 2024

Roundtable on the current crisis in the humanities and British studies I organized for the North American Conference on British Studies in January / February 2024

A guide for EAS Miscellany on teaching my Early American Studies article on the origins of ‘written constitutionalism,’ December 8, 2023

An op-ed for Inside Higher Ed on the state of humanities research funding in the US, August 15, 2023

An op-ed for Truthout on taxes and public higher education in Massachusetts, April 28, 2023

Interview with the “Revolution 250” podcast on archives and empire, January 31, 2023

Interview with “The American Vandal” podcast, Center for Mark Twain Studies, on “edwork in 2022,” January 31, 2022

Talk at the University of Pennsylvania on the ideological origins of American written constitutionalism, November 8, 2021

Interview with “The End of Sport” podcast on capitalism, bureaucracy, and higher education, September 20, 2021

An op-ed for Teen Vogue on war, 9/11, and academic freedom, September 8, 2021

A review essay on the office in the age of ‘work from home’ for The New Rambler, July 9, 2021

An op-ed for Teen Vogue on the conservative capture of American higher education, May 19, 2021

An op-ed for The Daily Beast on how Congress’ historical relationship with Howard University positions it to prevent Howard’s Classics Department from being cut, May 10, 2021

Interview on WMUA’s “Undercurrents Radio” on the history of voting rights (and efforts to restrict them) in the US, April 8, 2021

Talk at the University of Toronto on archival research as a form of political and economic expertise in the early modern British empire, March 16, 2021

Talk at Queen’s University (Canada) on language and empire in the early modern British world, January 28, 2021

Interview on WMUA’s “Undercurrents Radio” on the historical context of the Capitol riots, January 28, 2021

“The Insufficiency of Education,” on academia’s response to the Capitol riots, for Inside Higher Ed, January 19, 2021

Comments for The Berkshire Eagle on academia’s response to the Capitol riots, January 14, 2021

A post for the Omohundro Institute’s “Uncommon Sense” blog about the research and writing process that led to my October 2020 William & Mary Quarterly article, November 17, 2020

Talk at the Huntington Library on paper and constitutionalism in the early modern Anglophone world, November 10, 2020

“How Not to Read Bernard Bailyn,” on Bernard Bailyn and radical history, for Age of Revolutions, August 18, 2020 (republished by History Workshop Online, September 3, 2020)

Writing in The American Prospect

Writing in The Guardian

A Washington Post op-ed from 2006 on academic freedom

An appearance on MSNBC’s “Hardball” from May 2005 on judicial and college politics

An appearance on CSPAN’s “Washington Journal” from February 2005 discussing youth politics on college campuses