Here’s where I’ve stashed all my writing that isn’t academic and isn’t Educated. You’ll notice there’s not a lot of it :)


I Am Not Proof of the American Dream

The New York Times February 2022

The Un-Instagrammable Self

Northeastern Commencement Address 2019

Places Where the Recession Never Ended

Q&A with Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic

Is College Merely Helping Those Who Need it Least?

Review of The Years That Matter Most by Paul Tough, New York Times Book Review

The Family, Morality and Social Science in Anglo-American Cooperate Thought, 1813-1890

OK OK so for reasons that defy my understanding, people keep asking to read my PhD dissertation, which is very long and very dry and very specific. But, for those of you who are not to be dissuaded, you can find a copy here.


On another note: if you read Educated and found it helpful in thinking through difficult personal situations, below are a list of books, poems and lectures that helped me. Perhaps they will be helpful to you, too.

With these kinds of books I always recommend starting with just a few pages. If it speaks to you, keep reading. If not, move on to the next one until you find something that does. Something will.

 

  • The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk (also, listen to conversation with Bessel Van der Kolk and Ezra Klein that took place on The Ezra Klein Show, 8/24/21)

  • Playing With Reality, by Donald Winnicott

  • Trauma and Recovery and Truth and Repair by Judith Herman

  • An Examined Life, by Stephen Grosz

  • Codependent No More, Melody Beattie

  • The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller (the title always makes me wince but it’s worth pushing through it)

  • Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine with Ann Frederick

  • Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors by Janina Fisher

  • Internal Family Systems Therapy by Richard C. Schwartz and Martha Sweezy

  • Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel S.F. Heller

  • Three Essays on Religion by John Stuart Mill

  • The Poetry of Self Compassion, a lecture by David Whyte, available here

  • Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal by Jeanette Winterson

  • The Journey and Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

  • Youtube lectures on narcissistic family roles by Dr. Ramani, available here.

  • And these songs: On the Nature of Daylight by Max Richter and Song from a Secret Garden