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Selected media: interviews and discussions of my work
Dazed, “The Rise of Platonic Life Partnerships,” 6/10/2022
The Atlantic, “What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life?,” by Rhaina Cohen, 10/20/2020
Huffington Post, podcast interview on Asexuality and Aromanticism, D is for Desire podcast
The Atlantic, “New Questions in Philosophy” (behind a paywall), 7/18/2018
Ha’aretz (article in Hebrew), 9/3/2017
Washington Post, “What is Amatonormativity?,” 7/6/2017
New York Magazine, “There’s a Word for the Assumption that Everybody Should Be in a Relationship,” 3/8/2017
New York Times Book Review, After Marriage, 4/5/2016
Electric Lit, article by ACE journalist Angela Chen, “More Books Without Romance,” 3/5/2018
CW’s national morning show “Morning Dose” on “Amatonormativity” 7/7/2017
Times of India (also in the Mumbai Mirror), “Is Marriage a Fraud?,” 7/7/2015
Philosophy TV, Elizabeth Brake and Simon May discuss marriage, 2011
Short pieces by me
The Conversation, “In Texas, price gouging during disasters is illegal … ,” 2/24/2021
The Conversation, “Single during the holidays? It doesn’t mean being lonely or alone,” 12/20/2018, revised as “Single on Valentine’s Day and happily so,” 2/12/2021
“To Make Families Good for Democracy, Broaden the Notion of Family Itself,” Zocalo, December 15, 2016.
“We May Procreate Instead of Adopting,” The Philosophers’ Magazine, 2016.
Blog contributions
“Freedom and Other Philosophical Themes in Dylan’s Lyrics,” The Daily Nous 10/14/2016.
- (With the permission of Open Court, here is my 2006 essay on freedom in Dylan and here’s a link to the book in which it appeared – Bob Dylan and Philosophy.)
Why not privatize disaster response? What’s Wrong blog 9/28/2015.
Why can’t we be (legally recognized) friends? theForum (LSE) 9/14/2015.
Contributor, Philosophers on the Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Ruling Daily Nous 6/29/2015.
Just Care: What Society Owes the Elderly Philosop-her 1/16/2015.
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