Selected Stories and Articles

Interview (with Steven Pinker), Salon, Oct. 15, 2007.

Review of Mark Lilla's "The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West," New York Times, Sept 16, 2007.

Why I’ve Learned to Love the Novel, New Scientist, Aug. 25, 2007.

A Kibitz on Pure Reason (dialogue with Michael Weiss), Jewcy, March 17, 2007.

Review of Saul Bellow’s Novels 1956-1964, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 25, 2007.

Review of Robert Richardson’s “William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism,” New York Times Book Review, Dec. 17, 2006.

Review of Daniel Mendelsohn’s “The Lost: A Search for Six of the Six Million,” New York Observer.

Review of Deborah Blum's “Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death,” New York Sun.

Interview in The New York Sun Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

New York Times Op-Ed on Spinoza

Review of Robert Hellenga’s Philosophy Made Simple

Interview in Edge

Interview in Butterflies and Wheels

Commentary on Richard Foreman’s “The Gods are Pounding My Head!” in www.edge.org

Contribution to World Question Center 2005, www.edge.org

The Seed Salon (dialogue with Steven Pinker), Seed Magazine

“Writers on Writing” feature in The New York Times

The Two Cultures

Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen