"Round, Flat, and Egg-Shaped" --an account of a small skirmish on the border between religion and science, August 2011

"Ecce Homo"— a review of Stephen Pinker's The Blank Slate, for The Bookpress, December 2002

"Secularism, Science, and the Islamic Citadel"— a review of Bernard Lewis' What Went Wrong for The Bookpress, March 2002

"Why I am Not a Cultural Anthropologist"—a pointed look at a recent anthropological controversy. From The Bookpress, December 2000

"Post Pre-Raphaelite"— a critical appreciation of actress Kate Winslet, from Film Comment magazine, March/April 1998 (PDF)

"Antiquities Near the Beaten Path"— a travel article published in The New York Times, 10/6/96

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