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Columns at Tennessee Lookout:
– State of the Nashville Mayor’s Race. Tennessee Lookout (May 2, 2023).
– Don’t Look Up. Tennessee Lookout (April 10, 2023).
– Let’s Get This Party Started. Tennessee Lookout (March 9, 2023).
– A Tale of Two Cities. Tennessee Lookout (January 30, 2023).
– Not Ready for Takeoff. Tennessee Lookout (December 13, 2022).
– A Bad Deal. Tennessee Lookout (October 24, 2022).
– The Vision Thing. Tennessee Lookout (September 6, 2022).
– Beth Harwell Touts Trump’s Influence. Tennessee Lookout (July 25, 2022).
– State of Insanity. Tennessee Lookout (June 6, 2022).
– Original(ist) Sin. Tennessee Lookout (April 13, 2022).
– Dumbfounded. Tennessee Lookout (February 10, 2022).
– Just Say No to GOP Convention. Tennessee Lookout (January 3, 2022).
– Red Tuesday. Tennessee Lookout (November 4, 2021).
– Leaders Lead. Tennessee Lookout (August 17, 2021).
– The Vax of Life. Tennessee Lookout (July 7, 2021).
– Lost in America. Tennessee Lookout (May 10, 2021).
– Bare Minimum. Tennessee Lookout (March 1, 2021).
– Red Reckoning. Tennessee Lookout (January 13, 2021).
– Go Home Lamar. Tennessee Lookout (December 7, 2020).
– The End of Stupid? Tennessee Lookout (November 23, 2020).
– Losing My Religion. Tennessee Lookout (October 26, 2020).
– Survey Says. Tennessee Lookout (October 5, 2020).
– To Hell With Absentee Ballots. Tennessee Lookout (August 31, 2020).
– Show Me the Democracy. Tennessee Lookout (August 10, 2020).
– Inbox Assault. Tennessee Lookout (July 27, 2020).
– Home Invasion. Tennessee Lookout (July 8, 2020).
– When Cult Meets Crisis. Tennessee Lookout (June 16, 2020).
– Future Schlock. Tennessee Lookout (May 28, 2020).
– Let it Bleed. Tennessee Lookout (May 11, 2020).
Commentary in national media:
– Pluto Scientists were Masters of the Long Haul. The Conversation (July 24, 2015).
– Is Academic Freedom a License to Provoke Without Consequences? The Conversation (May 29, 2015).
– Businesses’ First Amendment Rights Don’t Extend to Their Employees. Washington Post (April 2, 2015).
– Facebook, Freedom and Thin-Skinned Bosses. CNN.com (November 11, 2010).
– Debate: Crack Down on Cyberslackers? Bloomberg Businessweek (November 2010).
– The Collision of Work and Free Speech. Chicago Tribune (July 4, 2007).
I was for several years a contributing writer for the Nashville Scene, a weekly alternative newspaper in Nashville (many of my posts are findable here.)
Here are earlier pieces in the Scene and an archive of some columns I wrote during the 1990s for In Review, a now-defunct paper in Nashville.