2024 - Science Lessons from an Old Coin

(2024) Science Lessons from an Old Coin.” Issues in Science and Technology 40, no. 2 (Winter 2024)

2024 - History as Dissent: On Ian Johnson’s “Sparks” and Tania Branigan’s “Red Memory,”

(2024) History as Dissent: On Ian Johnson’s “Sparks” and Tania Branigan’s “Red Memory,” Los Angeles Review of Books

2023 - On intellectual friendship: For Peter Beilharz.

(2023). On intellectual friendship: For Peter Beilharz. Thesis Eleven, 179(1), 200-205. https://doi.org/10.1177/072551362312177

2022 - The Elusive End of Nationalism

(2022) The Elusive End of Nationalism: Comments on E.H. Carr, Nationalism and After, H-Diplo.

2020 - Forget populism. The real threat is social disintegration.

(2020) - Forget populism. The real threat is social disintegration.

2016 - Are We Really Living in the Age of the Second Renaissance?

(2016) Are We Really Living in the Age of the Second Renaissance? Review of Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna, Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance, and Branko Milanovic, Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalisation, New Statesman, 12 June 2016.

2014 - In Praise of Worldly Philosophy

(2014) In Praise of Worldly Philosophy,” Review of Jeremy Adelman: Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman,” Contemporary Sociology, 43: 619-24.

2004 - Accidental Wisdom

(2004) Accidental Wisdom,” Review of Robert Merton and Elinor Barber, The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity, Book Forum, Summer 2004.

2000 - Resisting Globalization or Shaping It?

(2000) Resisting Globalization or Shaping It? Review of Manuel Castells, The Network Society, Prometheus #3 (March), pp. 28-47. Reprinted in F. Webster and B. Dimitriou, eds. Manuel Castels. London: Sage, 2003

1997 - Foreign Trade in Moral Visions

(1997) Foreign Trade in Moral Visions, Review of R. Madsen: China and the American Dream, The American Quarterly, vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 882-889.

1996 - What Do We See in the Discourse of Vision?"

(1996) What Do We See in the Discourse of Vision? Review of M. Jay: Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought, Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 38 #2, pp. 387-391.

1996 - Sociology's Other Poststructuralism"

(1996) Sociology’s Other Poststructuralism: Pierre Bourdieu’s Outline of a Theory of Practice,” Contemporary Sociology (special feature on the most influential books of the last 25 years). Reprinted (revised) in D. Clawson, ed.: Required Reading: Sociology’s Most Influential Books. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998, pp. 85-94.