Nonfiction

“U.S. Support For Israel’s War Has Become Indefensible.” The Atlantic. March 28, 2024

“The Cowardice of Guernica.” The Atlantic. March 12, 2024

“Wild Butchery of Souls.” Commonweal. January 2, 2024

“A Talisman Against the Taliban.” Time. August 17, 2023

“‘A Stranger in Your Own City’ Review: Finding the Iraq Within.” Wall Street Journal. March 10, 2023

“The Last American Aristocrat.” Unherd. August 12, 2022

“Eric Greitens’ Embarrassing Fantasies of Political Violence.” Time Magazine. June 25, 2022

“How Did Guns Get So Powerful.” The New Yorker. June 11, 2022

“America Kills Its Enemies in Our Name. And Then Keeps it Secret.” The New York Times. May 27, 2022

“False Witnesses”The Point Magazine, April 26, 2022

“How Quickly Biden Has Forgot the Afghans” – The Washington Post, March 3, 2022

“American Purpose After the Fall of Kabul” – The New Yorker, August 25, 2021

“Donald Rumsfeld Was a Disastrous Defense Secretary. But His Vision Lives On"” – The Washington Post, July 3, 2021

“Congress Gave Away It’s War Powers 20 Years Ago. Here’s Why That System is Broken” – The Washington Post, June 24, 2021

“Leaving Afghanistan Isn’t Enough to End America’s Forever Wars” –Time Magazine, April 23, 2021,

“The Human Experience Will Not Be Quantified” –The New York Times, November 7, 2020

Can the Trauma of War Lead to Growth, Despite the Scars?” –The New York Times, July 6, 2020

“Nothing Left Worth Saving” –Commonweal, February 27, 2020

Fear and Loathing in Mosul” –American Affairs Journal, February 20, 2020

Our Iraq Policy Makes Even Less Sense After the Iran Confrontation” –Washington Post, January 9, 2020

The Soldiers We Leave Behind” –The New York Times, November 9, 2019

Visions of War and Peace” –The World War One Centennial Commission WWrite Blog, June 30, 2019

“Deployment Changed My View of God, Country, and Humankind. So Did Coming Home” –America Magazine, November 11, 2018

“Public Rage Won’t Solve Any of Our Problems” –Time Magazine, October 25, 2018

“The Lesson of Eric Greitens, and the Navy SEALs Who Tried to Warn Us” –The New Yorker, May 17, 2018

“Left Behind: Two Decades of War Have Eroded the Morale of America’s Troops” –The Atlantic, May, 2018

“The Warrior at the Mall”–The New York Times, April 14th, 2018

“Tales of War and Redemption” –The American Scholar, December 4th, 2017

“What We’re Fighting For” –The New York Times, February 10th, 2017

“Citizen-Soldier: Moral Risk and the Modern Military” – The Brookings Institution, May 24th, 2016

“Don’t Confuse Veterans and Violence”–The New York Times, July 19, 2016

“What Defines a Modern Warrior?” – The New York Times, December 9th, 2015

“Over The Edge: The State of BASE Jumping”–Men’s Journal, July 31, 2015

“Duty and Pity” – The Wall Street Journal, May 23rd, 2014

“After War, A Failure of the Imagination” – The New York Times, Feb 8th, 2014

“Tour Guide” – Granta 124: Travel, Aug 15th, 2013

“The ‘Soldier’ with the Bazooka: World War II, Iraq, and a Story of the Good War” – The Daily Beast, Jul 5th, 2013

“A War, Before and After” – New York Times, Mar 19th, 2013

“How We Mourned, Why We Fought” – New York Daily News, Sept 11th, 2011

“Death and Memory” – New York Times, Oct 28th, 2010

Translations

“The Licentiates Children”, by Juan Gabriel Vásquez. Harper’s Magazine. December 2021.