I started writing op-ed for the Nashville Banner (the afternoon daily, now defunct) in the early '90s when I was working at Vanderbilt. In the mid-to-late nineties I was more or less weekly for the Philadelphia Inquirer, probably 200 pieces, and had a few dozen in the Los Angeles Times. 2001-2004 or so, I did a weekly column for Creators' Syndicate, and a series of longer pieces in the Baltimore Sun. Success with Creators was limited, but I've probably been in every US daily one way or another. I did some essays for Weekend All Things Considered, and did place a couple back in the day with the Washington Post, though Lord knows I've been pitching them with some futility for many a year.
I left Creators when I fell in love with blogging; no editing can be seductive. But some items/runs from the last few years:
The Atlantic online
A Leap of Atheist Faith (but now I'm a Quaker)
The Left-Right Political Spectrum is Bogus
New York Times
Andy Warhol and the Persistence of Modernism
Los Angeles Times
How to Have Taste: Jeff Koons's Popeye
Should Miley Cyrus Wear Dreadlocks?
Wall Street Journal
This is the Golden Age of the Written Word
Styles of Masculinity in the Trump Admin
Left or Right? Thoreau Wouldn't Have Understood the Question
Fiestas and Apples: Small-Town Life Before Trump
Getting Metaphysical About the Post-Truth Era
[there's one more? but which?]
I've done some book reviews for the Times Literary Supplement. Here one.
And of course, I've done maybe 70 or 80 pieces in SpliceToday over the last year and a half.
