‘Transgender’ Kids Usually Grow Up Gay

Wall Street Journal, June 30, 2025

When I was a boy, I ‘felt’ more like a girl. Thank goodness I was left alone to become the man I am.

Victimhood Is One Helluva Drug

Queer Majority, September 2022

The Re-Demonization of the Gay Male

Queer Majority, December 2023

Who Wronged Britney Spears?

The Free Press, November 2023

A review of Spears’ memoir, The Woman in Me.

Homophobia in drag

spiked, May 14, 2023

The New Homophobia

Newsweek, April 21, 2022

As a Gay Child in a Christian Cult, I Was Taught to Hate Myself. Then I Joined the Church of Social Justice—and Nothing Changed

Quillette, July 8, 2021

Pronouns and the City

Washington Examiner, February 10, 2022

My review of HBO’s ‘Sex and the City’ reboot, ‘And Just Like That…’

How Alcoholics Anonymous lost its way

Unherd, May 12, 2023

Addicts with the 'wrong opinions' no longer fit in.

Heinrich Hofmann’s Christ

Quarto, Spring 2019

Winner of Columbia University’s Nonfiction Prize

On moral scrupulosity, religious obsession, and life’s imitation of art.

A Second Look at ‘Britney: For the Record’

Medium, January 12, 2019

Revisiting the documentary that takes us inside the mind of the world’s most unreachable pop star.

There’s a Reason Why I’m Like This

Quarto, April 25, 2019

After you’ve been administered the Heimlich maneuver (twice), you begin to rethink what’s possible.

Generations of AIDS

Columbia Daily Spectator, October 10, 2017

Examining HIV/AIDS-related stigma with three generations of gay Columbia students, past and current.

The Stifling Conformity of Campus Sexual Politics

Washington Examiner, January 13, 2022

The capitalist politics of ‘queer.’

Nothing Left to Lose

Washington Examiner, August 21, 2022

My review of HBO’s docuseries, ‘The Anarchists’

The Tragic Gay Legacy of Madonna’s Most Famous “Vogue” Performance

Medium, April 29, 2020

It was the twilight of a counterculture.

Example 7 Billion of Why Clickbait is Dangerous

Medium, May 2, 2020

Everyone keeps talking about Russian bots spreading false information to divide America over our biggest conflicts . . . yet we insist on doing it ourselves.

The Idol Tried So Hard

Washington Examiner, June 2023

A review of Max’s The Idol.

Notorious Anti-Gay Preacher Scott Lively and the Language That Kills

HuffPost, June 12, 2017

Connecting the dots between American evangelical activists and the criminalization of homosexuality around the globe.