About Me

I’m a Brooklyn-based journalist who covers social-science controversies, internet culture, and a number of other subjects. I’m co-host, with Katie Herzog, of the podcast Blocked and Reported, and author of the newsletter Singal-Minded. My first book, The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Ills, was published in April of 2021. Before that, I was a senior editor and writer-at-large at New York Magazine, where I ran the Science of Us vertical. I’ve also written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, and a number of other outlets, some reputable and others less so. I'm currently writing a book about the American youth gender medicine controversy for Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House.