Articles and Chapters

“Nietzsche’s Test of Time: The Wheel as an Existential Imperative,” The Wheel of Time and Philosophy, Jacob M. Held, ed. (New York, NY: Blackwell, 2025), 47-53.

Native Son and the Myth of Mobility,” Scenes from the American Working Class: This Hard Land, Steven Michels, ed. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2025), 75-92.

“Introduction: How America Works,” Scenes from the American Working Class: This Hard Land, Steven Michels, ed. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2025), 1-14.

“Social Media as a Mass Movement: Eric Hoffer on the Will to Believe,” The Contours of Article 19 (Volume I), Pawan Kumar, ed. (Bloomsbury, New Delhi, 2024), 16-29.

“Teaching (with) Artificial Intelligence: The Next Twenty Years,” The Journal of Political Science Education (Oct. 2023), 510–521.

“The Risk of Climate Change and Extreme Weather,” Socio-Political Risk Management: Assessing and Managing Global Insecurity, Kurt J. Engemann, Cathryn F. Lavery, and Jeanne M. Sheehan, eds. (DeGruyter, 2023), 73-87.

(with Danielle Sottosanti) “An Exhortation to Secure Humanity against the Buggers: Ender’s Game,” Science Fiction and Political Philosophy: From Bacon to Black Mirror, Steven Michels and Timothy McCranor, eds. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022), 139-156.

(with David Whitney) “Bacon, Transhumanism, and Reflections from the Black Mirror,” Science Fiction and Political Philosophy: From Bacon to Black Mirror, Steven Michels and Timothy McCranor, eds. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022), 211-230.

“Rorty and the Mirror of Nietzsche,” A Companion to Rorty, Alan Malachowski, ed. (Wiley Blackwell, 2020), 268-280.

(with Timothy McCranor) “All the World’s a Cage: Franz Kafka’s ‘The Hunger Artist,’” Short Stories and Political Philosophy: Power, Prose, and Persuasion, Erin A. Dolgoy, Kimberly Hurd Hale, and Bruce Peabody, eds. (Politics, Literature, & Film series from Lexington Books, 2019), 69-88.

“Hobbes and Frank on Why Democracy is Overrated,” House of Cards and Philosophy: Underwood’s Republic, J. Edward Hackett, ed. (The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series, 2015), 128-40.

(with Brian Stiltner) “Religion, Rhetoric, and Running for Office: Public Reason on the Campaign Trail,” Religious Voices in Public Places, Nigel Biggar and Linda Hogan, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2009), 260-285.

“Who’s the Boss? Springsteen on the Alienation and Salvation of Work and Labor,” Bruce Springsteen and Philosophy: Darkness on the Edge of Truth, Randall E. Auxier and Doug Anderson, eds. (Open Court Press, 2008), 17-28.

(with Mike Ventimiglia) “Can The Daily Show Save Democracy?” The Daily Show and Philosophy: Moments of Zen in the Art of Fake News, Jason Holt, ed. (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell Press, 2007), 81-92.

Nietzsche’s Frames: Esotericism and the Art of the Preface,” EnterText 6.3 (Winter 2007).

When Democracies Fight: Tocqueville on the Democratic Peace,” Essays in Arts and Sciences (Winter 2005): 23-36.

“The Challenge of Higher Education,” Public Policy in Connecticut: Challenges and Perspectives, Gary Rose, ed. (Sacred Heart University Press, 2005), 184-196.

Nietzsche’s Aphoristic Turn,” EnterText 4.3 (Winter 2004-5).

Democracy in Plato’s Laws,” Journal of Social Philosophy 35/4 (Dec. 2004): 517-528.

Nietzsche and the Religion of the Future,” Animus (Nov. 2004).

Nietzsche on Truth and the Will,” Minerva (Nov. 2004): ): 34-61.

Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Virtue of Nature,” Dogma (Oct. 2004).