The New York Times
with Paul Brest
Neither State nor Market: Competitive Emulation in Higher Education
Studies in Higher Education
with Mitchell Stevens
August, 2024
Research & Teaching: Lasting Union or House Divided?
Daedalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Spring 2024
Negotiating the Academic Social Contract
Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning
with Mitchell Stevens
January, 6, 2022
Can Universities Defy the New Nationalism?
Project Syndicate (republished by LA Times)
November 14, 2021
Gender and Meritocracy: A Historical Perspective
Invited for joint forum between JHI and Tocqueville 21 Blogs
January 14, 2020
Want to Enhance Humanities Career Outcomes? Engage the Faculty
Inside Higher Ed with Nicole Hall
Oct 2, 2017
If Colleges Are Dismantled, Consider the Impact on Their Cities
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Oct 16, 2016
From Bauhaus to Black Mountain: German Émigrés and the Birth of American Modernism
Los Angeles Review of Books
May 16, 2016
Just What Makes a 'Good European'? Merkel, Nietzsche, and the Future of Europe
Foreign Policy
July 8, 2015
The Afterlife of a Manuscript: ‘A Scholarly Whodunit’ of Michelangelo, Nazis, and Safe-cracking
Los Angeles Review of Books
June 25, 2015
Baltimore Teaches, Göttingen Learns: Cooperation, Competition, and the Research University
The American Historical Review (June 2016): 780–823
The Other Weimar: The Warburg Circle as Hamburg School
Journal of the History of Ideas 74 (April 2013): 307–330. Translated and published as “L’autre Weimar : le cercle de Warburg, une ‘école de Hambourg?’” in : C. Maigné, Audrey Rieber et C. Trautmann-Waller (eds), La Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg comme laboratoire, Revue germanique internationale 28/2018, p. 11-30.
PanDora, or Erwin and Dora Panofsky and the Private History of Ideas
The Journal of Modern History 83 (December 2011): 753–787. Translated and published as “PanDora o Erwin y Dora Panofsky y la historia privada de las ideas,” in Síntomas Culturales: El Legado de Erwin Panofsky (Buenos Aires, Sans Soleil Ediciones, 2018), 109–156.