Articles and Chapters

“Artificial Intelligence,” Elgar Encyclopedia of Teaching and Pedagogy in Political Science, Julia Marin Hellwege, Daniel J.  Mallinson, and Joseph W. Roberts, eds. (Edward Elgar Press, 2027).

“Nietzsche’s Test of Time: The Wheel as an Existential Imperative,” The Wheel of Time and Philosophy: A Portion of Wisdom, 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).