Essays and Letters

 

My Essays

Mastering Respect	This was written for my regular newspaper column in high school.
Embracing Childhood	A personal essay, also published in my high school newspaper.
Latter-Day Saints	The early history of the Mormon church.
DPS For President	A speech from my 1994 bid for student government in high school.
Injustice & the Minimal State	Countering one philosopher's arguments for free-market capitalism.
Feminist Answers	A compare-and-contrast paper on articles by different feminist authors.
Impossible Worlds	A philosophy paper about Quantified Modal Logic.  Heady stuff.
Prometheus Bound	My 1999 undergraduate thesis on staging the Aeschylus play.
Pitt Stoller v. Caco	I successfully sued my former landlord in small claims court.
Dissent Is Patriotic	From a series of antiwar leaflets I created in 2003.
Remember 9/11	I distributed these flyers at the antiwar demonstrations in New York.
Respect Human Life	This is another one of the antiwar flyers.
Oppose Saddam Hussein	I wanted to make it clear that we weren't supporting a brutal dictator.
Eminem	An essay I wrote about the politically controversial rap superstar.
Note From Underground	This was intended to be a humorous essay.  You be the judge.

                                           

My Letters

Mideast Maze	This letter appeared in the New York Times in the summer of 2001.
Israelis and Arabs	My second letter in the Times, published in the fall of 2001.
Sands of Iraq	This letter was published in March 2003, right after the Iraq war began.
Strom Thurmond's Family	The Times published this letter in December 2003.
Unpublished Letters	A collection of my other letters to the New York Times.
Mayor of Great Neck Plaza	Wendy and I had some trouble at a Great Neck hotel.
La Cucina Italiana	For one day in 2000, I worked at an Italian cooking magazine.
Time Warner Cable	The usual problems with scheduling a cable installation.
United Mileage Plus	A dispute about the definition of "miles."
Junk mail	I used to send this letter off to companies that sent me junk mail.
Verizon Wireless	Trying to get my cell phone repaired or replaced under the warranty.
Pizza	A complaint about the cooking instructions for a frozen pizza.

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