My work has been cited or discussed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Politico, The Irish Times, The LA Review of Books, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Daily Beast, Unherd, The Critic, and other outlets.

Public Writing

Most of my essays for a general audience are published on my blog, Conspicuous Cognition, which has over 17,000 subscribers and 80,000 monthly views.

2025

• Status, Class, and the Crisis of Expertise – Conspicuous Cognition

• Scapegoating the Algorithm – Asterisk

2024

• Why do people believe true things? (My blog) (winner of a “Sidney Award” by David Brooks in The New York Times for “some of the best long-form journalism of the year”).

• Did online misinformation fuel the UK riots? – My blog/Le Point

2023

• Misinformation is the symptom, not the disease – Institute of Art and Ideas

• The fake news about fake news – Boston Review

2022

• The social roots of irrationality – Cardiff Open for Debate

• The focus on misinformation leads to a profound misunderstanding of why people believe and act on bad information – LSE Impact Blog

2021

• To communicate scientific research, we need to confront motivated ignorance – LSE Impact Blog

Podcasts and Interviews

2025

• Interview on the Good Fight Podcast with Yascha Mounk about misinformation, political bias, standpoint theory, and more.

• Interview on the Game Changer Podcast about misinformation and much more.

2024

• Interview on Hear This Idea Podcast about rationality, political ideology, the marketplace of ideas, political persuasion, artificial intelligence, and much more.

• Interview on Blocked and Reported Podcast about misinformation, politics, and psychology.

2022

• Interview on The Dissenter Podcast on beliefs, rationalisation markets, misinformation, and motivated cognition

• Short Interview with Nautilus Magazine: “What is misinformation doing to us?”

2021

• The Unlocking Science (Episode 2, “How do we talk about science and identity?”) podcast

2020

• The Hear This Idea Poscast podcast on political misinformation, self-deception, and signalling

Advising

• On the Expert Panel for the International Science Council’s “Public Value of Science” programme.