OP-EDS AND OTHER JOURNALISTIC ESSAYS

"Riding the Antisemitic Tiger," The Times of Israel, January 16, 2023.

It's Important to Take Those Calling for a 'Fourth Reich' Seriously" The Washington Post, December 13, 2022.

"How Counterfactuals Shape Putin's Historical Worldview," History News Network, April 24, 2022.

"How Will We Know When It's World War III?" The Washington Post, April 5, 2022.

"What Ifs and the War in Ukraine," History News Network, March 13, 2022.

"Blind Spots in the 'German Catechism Debate," The Journal of Holocaust Research Blog, August, 2021.

"Trumpism After Trump: Beyond Fascism," History News Network, February 14, 2021.

"Donald Trump's Situational Fascism," History News Network, January 14, 2021.

"Fears of a Fourth Reich," History Today, May 1, 2019.

​"Why Alternate Histories Have Overtaken Popular Culture," The Washington Post, February 20, 2019

"Digital Antisemitism: From Irony to Ideology," The Jewish Review of Books, Winter, 2019

"How Americans Described Evil Before Hitler,"  The Atlantic, October 9, 2018.

"In Defense of HBO's Counterfactual 'Confederate,'" The Conversation, September 6, 2017 (reprinted in The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune).

"Trump Gives Frightening New Relevance to 'The Man in the High Castle,'" The Forward, February 15, 2017.

"When an Actual Nazi Spoke on an American College Campus," The Forward, November 30, 2016.

“The Plot Against America Revisted,” Forward, November 12, 2015.

“Nazi Museum Documents Munich's Ignominious Past — and Puts Hitler in His Place,” Forward, July 11, 2015.

“Hitler the Unstoppable Zombie – Why We Don’t Let the Dictator Die,” The Conversation, April 30, 2015.

"Was Hitler a Normal Leader?" History News Network, March 15, 2015.

""What Happens When Mein Kampf's Copyright Expires," The New Republic, March 6, 2015.

"The Future of Mein Kampf in a Meme World," The Conversation, March 6, 2015.

"Will the Real Adolf Hitler Please Stand Up?" The Forward, February 20, 2015.

“What If World War I Had Never Happened?  The Forward, May 9, 2014.

"The Good, the Bad, the Unending" (Review of The Monuments Men), The Jewish Review
of Books, Spring, 2014.

“A Kabbalah for Architects? The Forward, January 24, 2014.

“Two World Wars Face Major Milestones in 2014,” The Forward, January 10, 2014.

"HItler's Willing Hollywood Collaborators," The Forward, November 8, 2013.

"How We Got Hitlerized: What the Ubiquity of the Führer Says About Our Culture,” 
The Forward, June 28, 2103.    

Did Jews Win the Second World War?  The Forward, September 6, 2013.

Rebooting the Führer: Adolf Hitler Brought Back To Life in German Hit Novel,
The Forward, February 19, 2013.

Mein Kongo: Author Guy Saville Imagines 'Afrika Reich' Where the Nazis Won, 
The Forward, February 13, 2013.

"Ironies Behind a Stunning Synagogue," The Forward, January 27, 2012.

"From Mussolini’s Estate to Shoah Memorial: A Conversation With Luca Zevi, 
Architect of Rome’s Holocaust Museum," The Forward, July 29, 2011.

"Stealth Museum," The Forward, October 22, 2010.

"Blessing a Building: Building a Blessing, The Forward, October 8, 2010.

“Fish(y) Forms: Early Works Illuminate Frank Gehry’s Aesthetic,” The Forward, September 15, 2010.

“When is a Glass Box Not Just a Glass Box?” The Forward, July 16, 2010, pp. 13, 15.

“Skokie Builds to Remember,” The Forward, April 24, 2009.

“The Forgotten Revolutionary: The Jewish Prime Minister of the Bavarian Free State, 
Buried by History," The Forward, March 6, 2009, p. 12.

"A New Ruin Rising: The Hurva Synagogue’s Latest Incarnation,’ The Forward, November 9, 2007, p. B1.

“The Appeal of Alternate History,” The Forward, April 20, 2007.

"Munich Redux," The Forward, November 3, 2006, p. B1.

"Munich Evokes the Past in Future Museum," The Forward, February 10, 2006.

“What if the Nazis Had Won?” The San Francisco Chronicle, May 8, 2005.

"Iraq and Germany: A Tale of Two Occupations," The Hartford Courant, May 19, 2004.

“Without Ruins, Mindful of What?” The Washington Post, November 30, 2003, p. B5.

"Ground Zero as a Laboratory For 'Jewish Architecture,'" The Forward, February 21, 2003.

"Ground Zero's Future Should include Present Excavation," The Greenwich Time, July 17, 2002, p. A15.

"What Islamism Shares With Nazism," The Forward, November 9, 2001,
    p. 11.

"A True Memorial Lies in the Ruins," The Washington Post, September 23,
    2001, p. B2.