INSIDER & Business Insider

I'm a journalist at INSIDER, Business Insider's culture-focused sister publication. I mostly write about digital culture, movies, and celebrities, but I've written features, reviews, news stories, analysis, and video scripts on a wide range of topics. Here's a selection:

21 people and movies that completely don't deserve their Oscar wins — sorry
Casey Affleck won't be presenting at this year's Oscars — here's what you need to know about the allegations against him
Why so many people are furious with Oscar frontrunner 'Three Billboards'
The new unofficial 'Harry Potter' movie about Voldemort's past is exactly why so many people despise fanfiction
The 18 wildest celebrity conspiracy theories on the internet
There's an annual festival for superfans of the movie 'Shrek' — and it's more bizarre than you could ever imagine
Meet the man who has dedicated himself to righting the biggest wrong on the internet
I grew up on Roald Dahl's books. He would have hated me because I'm Jewish.
Snoop Dogg told us why he doesn't have a will: 'I don't give a f--- when I'm dead'
One company is teaching schools how to deal with active shooters — and it's making teacher uncomfortable

Freelance

In addition to my reporting job at Business Insider, I've written a handful of articles on a freelance basis. Here are a few of them:
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Bentley University magazine: Entertainment is Everywhere: The world of distributed content
The Awl: We Need More Time to Mourn
GQ: How to Watch Movies Like New York Times Movie Critic A. O. Scott
The New Republic: The Remaking of the American West
Modern Farmer: Fact-Checking “The Martian”: Can You Really Grow Plants on Mars?
TIME: Gamers Come Together to Save London Arcade After Robbery
TIME: Here’s How Two Magicians Created an Illusion That Fooled the Internet
TIME: Watch This Guy Use a Drone to Rescue Another Drone

Entertainment Weekly

While interning at EW, I wrote over 100 essays, news articles, and reviews. Here are some highlights:

​Adrien Brody's next trick: turning into Houdini
There Should Be A(nother) Sequel: 'National Treasure'
Amazon: Ebook prices are 'unjustifiably high'
'Blood Meridian' deserves a director who understands the Western genre
'Expendables 3' leaks online 3 weeks before theatrical release
Note to movie studios: Give trolls their due!

Pipe Dream

By the end of my junior year, I'd written more articles than anyone else in the history of the arts and culture section of Pipe Dream. I've also edited hundreds of articles published in the section. Here are some of my pieces that I'm most proud of:

​The life and death of a lab rat
J. Hoberman: Once a film student, now living the dream life
The sweeter side to a sugar daddy
The Making of 'The Rewrite'
Becoming Insta-famous is @effortlyss
Nick Offerman talks ‘Parks and Rec,’ spiedies and the superhero he’d like to play
Horsing around on Binghamton’s oldest attractions
The Bing-U Secret is out
Binghamton graduate Nathan Englander writes with dark humor, Jewish wit

Medium

The Commencement Speech I Can't Give
Questions: A Love Story
The Great Jewish-American Novel
Marquez's mistake
The Problem with 'The Jewish Gospels'
On John Hersey’s ‘Hiroshima’
Moby Dick is Not a Novel: An Anatomy of an Anatomy
What kind of antisemite was Leni Riefenstahl?
What kind of Zionist was Martin Buber?

Other

The advent of Hitler in India
A Personal Journey with Persian filmmaker Jafar Panahi
How a charter school is closing the achievement gap
5 Reasons This Social Enterprise Developed A Strategy Based on Criminals
Aftercare for Victims of Sex Trafficking: The Love146 Strategy
Here's an interview I did with Nick Offerman while I was the Release Editor of Pipe Dream. I wrote a couple of articles about his visit here and here.