Last updated on March 24, 2016
James McWilliams Comprehensive Bibliography
Books
Eating Promiscuously: Essays on the Future of Food. Counterpoint, 2017.
The Modern Savage: Our Unthinking Decision to Eat Animals. Thomas Dunne Books, 2015.
America’s Native Nut: A Brief History of the Pecan Tree. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013.
The Politics of the Pasture: How Two Oxen Inspired a National Debate about Eating Animals. New York: Lantern Books, 2013.
Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly. Boston: Little, Brown, 2009.
American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
Building the Bay Colony: Local Economy and Culture in Early Massachusetts. Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 2007.
A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
Articles, reviews, essays, opinions and editorials, etc.
2016
“The omnivore’s contradiction: That free-range, organic meat was still an animal killed for your dinner,” Salon.com, January 3, 2016 as accessed on January 8, 2016. Excerpt from: The Modern Savage: Our Unthinking Decision to Eat Animals http://www.salon.com/2016/01/03/the_omnivores_contradiction_that_free_range_organic _meat_was_still_an_animal_killed_for_your_dinner/
“What if Eating Meat was Considered Sexist?” Pacific Standard, January 8, 2016 as accessed on January 8, 2016. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/what-if- eating-meat-was-considered-sexist “How the 1% Gardens,” Texas Observer, February 2016, p. 34-35.
“On Chips and Microchips,” Pacific Standard, February 1, 2016 as accessed on February 8, 2016 http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/what-digital-technology-can- teach-us-about-our-food-problems
“The Failure of Food Journalism,” Pacific Standard, February 10, 2016 as accessed on February 18, 2016. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/the-failure-of-food- journalism
“Forget What You’ve Heard: Organic Food is Not Food Grown Without Pesticides,” Pacific Standard, February 19, 2016 as accessed on March 24, 2016. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/forget-what-youve-heard-organic-food-is- not-food-grown-without-pesticides
“The Failure of a Piece of Landmark Animal Welfare Legislation,” Pacific Standard, March 9, 2016 as accessed on March 24, 2016. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and- technology/the-failure-of-a-piece-of-landmark-animal-welfare-legislation
“The Culinary Potential of the Canine,” Pacific Standard, March 16, 2016 as accessed on March 24, 2016. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/the-failure-of-a-piece-of- landmark-animal-welfare-legislation
“Saving the Self in the Age of the Selfie,” The American Scholar, Spring 2016 Cover Story, p. 22-35. Online as accessed on March 24, 2016. https://theamericanscholar.org/saving-the-self-in-the-age-of-the-selfie/#.VvQY7XrGW4E
Articles, reviews, essays, opinions and editorials, etc.
2015
“Inside Big Ag: On the Dilemma of the Meat Industry,” Virginia Quarterly Review (Sprin 2015): http://www.vqronline.org/nonfiction-criticism/2015/04/inside-big-ag- dilemma-meat-industry.
“Getting Meta About Mules: Faulkner and the Fine Art of Slowing Down,” The Millions, March 31, 2015. http://www.themillions.com/2015/03/getting-meta-about-mules- faulkner-and-the-fine-art-of-slowing-down.html
“Let Them Eat Quiche: How the Local Food Movement Swerved Right,” Pacific Standard, December 26, 2014 as accessed on January 2, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/let-eat-quiche-local-food- movement-swerved-right-97096/
“How The Battle of New Orleans Birthed The American Character,” The New Yorker, January 8, 2015 as accessed on January 10, 2015. http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/battle-new-orleans-birthed-american- democracy?intcid=mod-latest
“How the Other ‘We’ Eats,” Pacific Standard, January, 14, 2015 as accessed on January 14, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/how-the-other-we-eats- standard-american-diet-making-us-obese-97489/
“California Hens Can Now Stretch Their Wings, but Will They Ever Fly?,” Pacific Standard, February 3, 2015 as accessed on February 17, 2015.http://www.psmag.com/politics-and-law/california-hens-can-now-stretch-their- wings-but-will-they-ever-fly
“Revenge of the Pigs,” Pacific Standard, February 11, 2015 as accessed on February 17, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/revenge-of-the-pigs-hunting-and- the-feral-hog-problem
“Can We Blame Obesity on Mom and Dad? Consult the Dog,” Pacific Standard, February 18, 2015, as accessed on April 2, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/can-we-blame-obesity-on-mom-and-dad- consult-the-dog
“The Stealth Trade Agreement That Could Super-Size Industrial Agriculture,” Pacific Standard, February 20, 2015, as accessed on April 2, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/the-stealth-trade-agreement-that-could- super-size-industrial-agriculture
“The Ecological Wisdom of Leaving Nature Alone,” Pacific Standard, March 5, 2015 as accessed on April 2, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/get-off-my- grass
“Our Warm Embrace of Those Allergic to Peanuts,” Pacific Standard, March 20, 2015 as accessed on April 2, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/our-warm- embrace-of-those-allergic-to-peanuts
“Proponents of Raw Milk Are No Better Than Anti-Vaccine Advocates,” Pacific Standard, March 26, 2015 as accessed on April 2, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature- and-technology/raw-milk-is-a-raw-deal
“Getting Meta about Mules: Faulkner and the Fine Art of Slowing Down,” The Millions, March 31, 2015 as accessed on April 2, 2015. http://www.themillions.com/2015/03/getting-meta-about-mules-faulkner-and-the-fine- art-of-slowing-down.html
“Inside Big Ag: On the Dilemma of the Meat Industry,” Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2015 as accessed on April 2, 2015. http://www.vqronline.org/nonfiction-criticism/2015/04/inside-big-ag-dilemma-meat- industry
“Whining About Labels,” Pacific Standard, April 2, 2015 as accessed on April 2, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/whining-about-how-your-wine-doesnt-have- any-labels-and-how-are-you-supposed-to-even-know-whats-in-it
“Ban GMOs: That Shit Ain’t Food,” Pacific Standard, April 14, 2015 as accessed on April 23, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/ban-gmos-that-shit-aint-food
“These ‘Local’ Piggies Went to Market,” Pacific Standard, April 22, 2015 as accessed on April 23, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/small-farmers-plugged- into-local-economics-arent-somehow-ipso-facto-honest-farmers
“Getting a Clue About the Avian Flu,” Pacific Standard, May 5, 2015 as accessed on May 18, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/getting-a-clue-about-the- avian-flu
“Do Personal Food Choices Affect the Drought in California?” Pacific Standard, May 13, 2015 as accessed on May 18, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and- technology/do-personal-food-choices-affect-the-drought-in-california
“Roger That,” Paris Review Daily, May 13, 2015 as accessed on May 18, 2015. http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/05/13/roger-that/
“Going Down the Rabbit Hole of Deceit,” Pacific Standard, May 21, 2015 as accessed on June 9, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/going-down-the-rabbit- hole-of-deceit
“What Does an $85 Meal of Garbage Signify?” Pacific Standard, June 3, 2015 as accessed on June 9, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/would-you-pay- 85-bucks-for-a-plate-of-garbage
“The Examined Lie, a meditation on memory,” The American Scholar, Summer 2015, Cover Story. Online as accessed on June 9, 2015. https://theamericanscholar.org/the-examined-lie/#.VXc230ZkZLF
“Our Failed Food Movement,” Pacific Standard June 17, 2015 as accessed on June 25, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/our-failed-food-movement
“Humble Pig,” Pacific Standard, June 23, 2015 as accessed on June 25, 2015.http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/mark-essig-lesser-beasts-a-snout-to- tail-history-of-the-humble-pig
“On the Value of Not Knowing Everything,” The Hedgehog Review, Volume 17, No. 2 (Summer 2015). Accessed on July 2, 2015. http://iasc- culture.org/THR/THR_article_2015_Summer_McWilliams.php
“What Does Your Local Food Environment Say About Your Waistline?” Pacific Standard, July 7, 2015 as accessed on August 17, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/health- and-behavior/what-does-your-local-food-environment-say-about-your-waistline
“The Other Oil Boom,” Texas Monthly, August 2015 [need print volume & issue number]. As accessed on August 17, 2015. http://www.texasmonthly.com/food/the-other-oil-boom/
“What’s So Bad About the Paleo Diet?” Pacific Standard, July 21, 2015 as accessed on August 17, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/whats-so-bad-about-the- paleo-diet “Can Eating Meat Be Ethical?” Pacific Standard, August 11, 2015 as accessed on August 17, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/can-eating-meat-be-ethical
“Can Animals Have Rights and Still be Dinner?” August 19, 2015 as accessed on September 13, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/can-an-animal-have- rights-and-still-be-dinner
“When Big Ag Gobbles up Small Ag Is there Any Hope for Real Reform?” Pacific Standard, September 17, 2015 as accessed on September 17, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/when-big-ag-gobbles-up-small-ag-is-there- any-hope-for-real-reform
“Nature Writing Gets Personal,” The Hedgehog Review, September, 2015 as accessed on October 12,2015. http://iasc-culture.org/THR/channels/THR/2015/09/nature-writing- gets-personal/
“Do We have a Contract With the Animals We Eat?” Pacific Standard, September 24, 2015 as accessed on October 12, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/do-we-have-a-contract-with-the-animals-we- eat
“Are There Purely Environmental Justifications for Eating Animals?” Pacific Standard, September 25, 2015 as accessed on October 12, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/are-there-purely-environmental- justifications-for-eating-animals “What Cheating Emissions Standards Tells Us About Ourselves,” Pacific Standard, October 2, 2015 as accessed on October 12, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/what-cheating-emissions-standards-tells- us-about-ourselves
“Is There Such a Thing as Food Choice?” Pacific Standard, October 7, 2015 as accessed on October 12, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/is-there-such-a-thing-as-food-choice
“Want to Reduce Food Waste? Hug Your Local Freegan,” Pacific Standard, October 14, 2015 as accessed on October 15, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and- technology/want-to-reduce-food-waste-hug-your-local-freegan
“Monkey Business: How Coconuts Can Help Us Re-think Citizenship,” Pacific Standard, October 29, 2015 as accessed on November 4, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and- technology/how-coconuts-can-help-us-re-think-citizenship “Do We Really Vote With Our Forks?” Pacific Standard, November 4, 2015 as accessed on November 4, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/do-we-really-vote- with-our-forks
“Is the Chipotle Narrative Coming to an End”? Pacific Standard, November 10, 2015 as accessed on December 1, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/is-the- chipotle-narrative-coming-to-an-end
“Western Cattlemen Square Off Against 60,000 Mustangs,” Pacific Standard, November 23, 2015 as accessed on December 1, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and- technology/western-cattlemen-square-off-against-60000-mustangs
“If You’re Buying a Turkey From Whole Foods Because It Was “Humanely” Raised, Read This First,” Slate.com November 24, 2015 as accesed on December 1, 2015. http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/11/24/whole_foods_turkeys_supplier_dieste l_ranch_raises_birds_in_horrible_factory.html
“Do We Need a ‘Mustang-Safe’ Label for Beef?” Pacific Standard, December 2, 2015 as accessed on December 16, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/do-we- need-a-mustang-safe-label-for-beef
“How Horse Meat Might Get into the U. S. Food System,” Pacific Standard, December 8, 2015 as accessed on December 16, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/how-horse-meat-might-get-into-the-us-food- system
“The Case Against the Woman Who Dared to Give Water to Someone Else's Pigs,” Pacific Standard, December 15, 2015 as accessed on December 16, 2015. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/the-case-against-the-woman-who-dared- to-give-water-to-someone-elses-pigs
“How the Term ‘Anit-Science’ Distorts America’s Relationship With Technology,” Pacific Standard, December 30, 2015 as accessed on January 4, 2016. http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/how-the-term-anti-science-distorts- americas-relationship-with-technology
2014
“Sea World’s Popularity Tanks As ‘Blackfish’ Documentary Makes A Splash,” Forbes. January 1, 2014 as accessed on January 2, 2014. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmcwilliams/2014/01/01/seaworlds-popularity-tanks- as-blackfish-documentary-makes-a-splash/
“Consider the Squirrel,” Pacific Standard. January 27, 2014 as accessed on March 3, 2014. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/nature-and-technology/consider-squirrel-urban- parks-73318/
“What Makes American Cuisine American?” Pacific Standard. February 4, 2014 as accessed on March 3, 2014. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/books-and-culture/makes- american-cuisine-american-72942/
“The Seduction of Addiction: A Runner’s Confession,” Pacific Standard. February 21, 2014 as accessed on March 3, 2014. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and- behavior/seduction-addiction-runners-confession-75187/
“When It Comes to Animal Farms, Sometimes Size Doesn’t Matter,” Pacific Standard. February 28, 2014 as accessed on March 3, 2014. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/comes-animal-farms-sometimes- size-doesnt-matter-75629/
“Meat Makes the Planet Thirsty,” The New York Times, OP-ED, March 8, 2014.
“Support Industrial Slaughterhouses,” Pacific Standard, March 10, 2014 as accessed on March 17, 2014. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/support- industrial-slaughterhouses-local-meat-76120/
“Seeking McCarthy’s Judge,” The Quarterly Conversation, March 10, 2014 as accessed on March 17, 2014. http://quarterlyconversation.com/seeking-mccarthys-judge
“The Ecological Creed of Craft Beer,” Conservation, Spring 2014, Volume 15, Number 1. Also online as accessed on March 17, 2014. http://conservationmagazine.org/conservation-archive-page/spring-2014/
“Loving Animals to Death,” The American Scholar, Spring 2014. Also online as accessed on March 17, 2014. http://theamericanscholar.org/loving-animals-to-death/
“Why Don’t We Have a National Park to Protect Native Grasslands?” Pacific Standard, March 25, 2014 as accessed on March 31, 2014. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/nature-and-technology/dont-national-park-protect- native-grasslands-77208/
“Saturated Fads: Butter Is Back Only Because Our Biases Remain,” Pacific Standard, April 3, 2014 as accessed on April 14, 2014. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health- and-behavior/saturated-fads-butter-back-biases-remain-77802/
“Running a Marathon Takes Guts, but They Better Behave,” Pacific Standard, April 29, 2014 as accessed on May 13, 2014. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and- behavior/running-marathon-takes-guts-better-behave-80224/
“A Roadkill Revolution: Eating Animals to Liberate Them,” Pacific Standard, May 15, 2014 as accessed on May 15, 2014. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and- behavior/food-vegetarian-vegan-roadkill-revolution-eating-animals-liberate-81507/
“The Price of Your Right to Know, Calculating the hidden costs of genetically modified food labels,” Slate May 20, 2014 as seen on May 21, 2014. http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/05/gmo_food_labels_wo uld_label_laws_in_vermont_maine_connecticut_increase_food.html
“The Healthy Benefits of a Stressed Out Plant,” Pacific Standard, May 29, 2014 as accessed on May 29. 2014. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/nature-and-technology/healthy-benefits-stressed- plant-82243/
“Melon Love: From Raphael to Tenacious D, a Brief History of Erotic Plants,” Pacific Standard, June 16, 2014 as accessed on June 21, 2014. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/nature-and-technology/melon-love-raphael-tenacious- d-brief-history-erotic-plants-83187/
“Label Me Confused: How the words on a bag of food create more questions than answers,” Pacific Standard, July 22, 2014 as accessed on July 22, 2014. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/label-confused-words-bag-food- create-questions-answers-86169/
“Fruit Mutiny,” Paris Review Daily, August 1, 2014 as accessed on August 5, 2014. http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/08/01/fruit-mutiny/
“Why Are So Many Low-Income People So Overweight?” The Pacific Standard, August 4, 2014 as accessed on August 5, 2014. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and- behavior/many-low-income-people-overweight-87379/
“Seeking a Healthy Public School Lunch? Good Luck,” The Pacific Standard, August 19, 2014 as accessed on October 14, 2014. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/seeking-healthy-public-school- lunch-good-luck-88661/
“Animating Journalism: Rethinking the Way the Media Covers Critters,” with Vickery Eckhoff, Laika Issue four (Summer/Fall 2014): 72-73.
“Learning to Read at Seventeen,” Avidly, Los Angeles Review of Books,” September 2, 2014, as accessed on September 3, 2014. http://avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2014/09/02/learning-to-read-at-seventeen/
“The Hidden Cost of Fear Mongering: How the Environmental Working Group Sells its Message Short,” The Pacific Standard, September 3, 2014 as accessed on October 14, 2014. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/hidden-cost-fear-mongering- environmental-working-group-sells-message-short-90037/
“Did Meatless Mondays bring down Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples?” The Pacific Standard, September 19, 2014 as accessed on October 14, 2014. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/meatless-monday-burrito- treason-lone-star-state-texas-agriculture-todd-staples-90938/
“Why Did ‘Excellent Sheep’ Alienate So Many Readers?” The Pacific Standard, October 3, 2014 as accessed on October 14, 2014. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/books-and- culture/william-deresiewicz-excellent-sheep-alienate-many-readers-91907/
“What Big Data Can Tell Us About the Things We Eat,” Pacific Standard, October 15, 2014 as accessed on November 18, 2014. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and- behavior/big-data-can-tell-us-things-eat-92414/
“When Will We Stop Suggesting That Plants Have Feelings?” Pacific Standard, November 5, 2014 as accessed on November 18, 2014. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/will-stop-suggesting-plants- feelings-93768/
“Are Vegans Obligated to Eat Insects?” The Pacific Standard, November 13, 2014 as accessed on November 18, 2014. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and- behavior/vegans-obligated-eat-insects-93767/
“A Brief History of Insect Control,” Paris Review Daily, November 17, 2014 as accessed on November 18, 2014. http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/11/17/a-brief-history- of-insect-control/
“The Exponential Benefits of eating Less,” Pacific Standard, November 26, 2014 as accessed on December15, 2014. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and- behavior/portion-size-the-exponential-benefits-of-eating-less-food-weight-health-94849/
“Gluttony and Global Warming: We’re Eating Ourselves to a Warmer Planet,” Pacific Standard, December 15, 2014 as accessed on December 15, 2014. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/nature-and-technology/gluttony-global-warming- eating-warmer-planet-96495/
Articles, reviews, essays, opinions and editorials, etc.
2013 “Beastly Justice, In the Middle Ages, animals that did bad things were tried in court. Maybe that’s not as crazy as it sounds,” Slate.com (February 21, 2013) accessed May 3, 2013.http://www.slate.com/articles/life/history/2013/02/medieval_animal_trials_why_the y_re_not_quite_as_crazy_as_they_sound.html
“Trojan Horse Slaughter,” Freakonomics.com (April 17, 2013) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2013/04/17/trojan-horse-slaughter/
“All Sizzle and No Steak, Why Allan Savory’s TED talk about how cattle can reverse global warming is dead wrong,” Slate.com (April 22, 2013) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2013/04/allan_savory_s_ted_talk_is_wrong_and_t he_benefits_of_holistic_grazing_have.html
“Aphrodisiacal Footnotes and the Impotence of History,” TheMillions.com June 25, 2013 accessed on June 25, 2013 http://www.themillions.com/2013/06/aphrodisiacal- footnotes-and-the-impotence-of-history.html
“The Fescue Conundrum: Think Grass-Fed Beef Is Natural? It’s Time to Think Again,” Pacific Standard www.psmag.com June 25, 2013 as accessed on June 25, 2013 http://www.psmag.com/environment/the-fescue-conundrum-grass-fed-beef-isnt-natural- 60963/
”Radical Activism and the Future of Animal Rights” Pacific Standard www.psmag.com July 3, 2013 as accessed on July 10, 2013 http://www.psmag.com/culture/radical- activism-and-the-future-of-animal-rights-61789/
“Clunkers”; New York Times Book Review (July 7, 2013): 27.
“The Scales of Justice,” Laika Issue two (Summer 2013): 50-51.
“Sustainable Agriculture 9-1-1, or, That Time a College Tried to Feed Its Mascot to Students,” Pacific Standard www.psmag.com August 2, 2013 as accessed on August 2, 2013 http://www.psmag.com/environment/sustainable-agriculture-9-1-1-the-rise-of- earthy-college-programs-63883/
“The Congressional King of Industrial Agriculture,” Pacific Standard. August 7, 2013 as accessed on August 7, 2013 http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/the- congressional-king-of-industrial-agriculture-64164/.
“The Fuzzy Math Being Used to Justify Horse Slaughter in the United States,” Pacific Standard. August 12, 2013 as accessed on August 12, 2013 http://www.psmag.com/environment/the-fuzzy-math-behind-horse-slaughter- 64336/#disqus_thread
“Shell Game, How China’s booming demand for America’s only edible native nut is transforming the Texas pecan industry,” Texas Monthly. August 2013 as accessed on August 22, 2013. http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/shell-game
“Is It Time to Kill Off the Sharks?” Pacific Standard. August 19, 2013 as accessed on August 22, 2013 http://www.psmag.com/environment/is-it-time-to-kill-off-the-sharks- culling-la-reunion-france-64621/
“The Beef on Lab Meat, Can a substitute for animal flesh that’s grown in Petri dishes ever catch on?” Pacific Standard. August 27, 2013 as accessed on August 27, 2013 http://www.psmag.com/environment/cultured-meat-animal-flesh-michael-pollan-65017/
“Fair, but Not Fair Enough: Beyond Fair Trade Coffee, Kenneth Lander believes he has found a better way to put farmers first,” Pacific Standard. September 12, 2013 as accessed on September 12, 2013 http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/fair-fair- enough-beyond-fair-trade-coffee-farming-agriculture-65987/
“John McEnroe and the Sadness of Greatness: On “the only player in the history of the game to go berserk and play better tennis” and the emotional risk inherent in the athlete’s quest for perfection,” Pacific Standard. September 23, 2013 as accessed on September 23, 2013. http://www.psmag.com/culture/john-mcenroe-sadness-greatness-66758/
“Chipotle’s Choice: A Shift Away From Responsibly Raised Beef,” Pacific Standard. October 9, 2013 as accessed on October 9, 2013. http://www.psmag.com/environment/chipotle-mexican-grill-fast-food-beef-sustainable- agriculture-67867/
“Small, Free-Range Egg Producers Can’t Escape Problems of Factory Farms,” Forbes. October 23, 2013 as accessed on October 26, 2013. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmcwilliams/2013/10/23/small-free-range-egg- producers-cant-escape-problems-of-factory-farms/sed on October 26, 2013.
“Milk of Human Kindness Denied to Dairy Cows,” Forbes. October 25, 2013 as accessed on October 26, 2013. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmcwilliams/2013/10/25/milk-of- human-kindness-denied-to-dairy-cows/
“U.S. Pork Wallows In Dangerous Antibiotics, Pollution, Welfare Violations,” Forbes. October 30, 2013 as accessed on October 30, 2013. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmcwilliams/2013/10/30/u-s-pork-wallows-in- dangerous-antibiotics-pollution-welfare-violations/
“Ranchers Insistence on Cheap Grazing Keeps Wolf Population In The Crosshairs,” Forbes. November 5, 2013 as accessed on November 6, 2013. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmcwilliams/2013/11/05/ranchers-insistence-on-cheap- grazing-keeps-wolf-population-in-the-crosshairs/
“Strange Cargo: Is Legalizing the Trade of Exotic Animal Products the Only Way to Slow It?” Pacific Standard. November 6, 2013 as accessed on November 6, 2013. http://www.psmag.com/politics/strange-cargo-legalizing-trade-exotic-animal-products- way-slow-69546/
“With the ‘All Natural’ Label Under Fire, Consumers Are Left In The Dark,” Forbes. November 14, 2013 as accessed on November 19, 2013. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmcwilliams/2013/11/14/with-the-all-natural-label- under-fire-consumers-are-left-in-the-dark/
“Five Reasons Why Owning Backyard Chickens Is For The Birds,” Forbes. November 21, 2013 as accessed on November 23, 2013. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmcwilliams/2013/11/21/five-reasons-why-owning- backyard-chickens-is-for-the-birds/
“We Don’t Have a Right to GMO Labels (But We Should Use Them),” Pacific Standard. November 26, 2013 as accessed on November 27, 2013. http://www.psmag.com/health/need-gmo-labels-now-even-dont-right-70512/
“Microbrewers Go From Mellow To Bitter Over Branding,” Forbes. November 29, 2013 as accessed on November 29, 2013. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmcwilliams/2013/11/29/microbrewers-go-from- mellow-to-bitter-over-branding/
“Grazing Improvement Act Will Fleece Taxpayers While Harming Environment,” Forbes. December 4, 2013 as accessed on December 4, 2013. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmcwilliams/2013/12/04/grazing-improvement-act- will-fleece-taxpayers-while-harming-environment/
“Health Concerns Over GMOs Distract Consumers From the Real Problem Of Monoculture,” Forbes. December 13, 2013 as accessed on December 14, 2013. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmcwilliams/2013/12/13/health-concerns-over-gmos- distract-consumers-from-the-real-problem-of-monoculture/
“Journalism Is Never Perfect: The Politics of Story Corrections and Retractions,” Pacific Standard. December 20, 2013 as accessed on January 2, 2014. http://www.psmag.com/culture/journalism-never-perfect-politics-story-corrections- retractions-71700/
“In Meat We Trust’ Gives Carnivores A History To Salivate Over,” Forbes. December 20, 2013 as accessed on January 2, 2014. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmcwilliams/2013/12/20/new-book-on-the-history-of- meat-promises-to-make-carnivores-salivate/ “Local Meat Production Won’t Solve Global Food Woes,” Forbes. December 26, 2013 as accessed on January 2, 2014. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmcwilliams/2013/12/26/local-meat-production-wont- solve-global-food-woes/
2012 “The Evidence for a Vegan Diet,” The Atlantic (January 18, 2012) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/01/the-evidence-for-a-vegan- diet/251498/
“PTSD in the Slaughterhouse,” The Texas Observer (February 7, 2012).
“Meat: What Big Agriculture and the Ethical Butcher Have in Common,” The Atlantic (February 8, 2012) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/02/meat-what-big-agriculture-and-the- ethical-butcher-have-in-common/252679/
“The Prius Driver’s Conundrum,” Freakonomics.com (February 14, 2012) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/02/14/the-prius-driver%E2%80%99s- conundrum/.
“PETA's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad History of Killing Animals,” The Atlantic.com (March 12 2012) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/petas-terrible-horrible-no-good-very- bad-history-of-killing-animals/254130/
“The Myth of Sustainable Meat,” The New York Times (April 13, 2012): A31.
“Should We Eat Less Meat? None at All?” The New York Times (April 18, 2012): Letters, A26.
“What’s the Beef?” The Texas Observer (April 26, 2012).
“A Spy in the Slaughterhouse,” The Atlantic (June 5, 2012) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/06/a-spy-in-the- slaughterhouse/258110/
“The Butcher Next Door, Why the rise of DIY urban animal slaughter is bad for people and animals.” Slate.com (June 6, 2012) accessed on May 3, 2013, http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2012/06/diy_animal_slaughter_urban_hipsters_thi nk_it_s_a_good_idea_it_isn_t_.html
“Nature’s Perfect Package,” Harper’s Magazine, (August 2012), p. 50.
“Vegan Feud, Animal rights activists would accomplish a lot more if they stopped attacking the Humane Society,” Slate.com (September 7, 2012) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2012/09/hsus_vs_abolitionists_vs_the_meat_indu stry_why_the_infighting_should_stop_.html
“The Cost of a Happier Chicken: Who Pays?” Freakonomics.com (September 27, 2012) accessed on May 3, 2013http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/09/27/the-cost-of-a- happier-chicken-who-pays/.
“Trojan Horse Meat, A New York chef planned to serve raw horse meat. It would have been a disaster—but not for the reason you think,” Slate.com (October 16, 2012) accessed on May 3, 2013, http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/food/2012/10/m_wells_dinette_horse_ meat_scandal_why_horse_meat_is_more_dangerous_than.html
“The Unmentionable Deed,” Laika Issue one (December/January) 44-45.
2011 Review “Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn: Paul Revere and the Growth of American Enterprise, by Robert Martello,” The New England Quarterly (Winter, 2011).
Review “Urban Farming in the West: A New Deal Experiment in Subsistence Homesteads, by Robrt Carriker,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly (January 2011).
“Breeding Killers?” Freakonomics.com (January 5, 2011) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/01/05/breeding-killers/
“Meat: Sometimes 'Sustainable,' Never Okay,” The Atlantic (January 10 2011) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/01/meat-sometimes- sustainable-never-okay/68524/
Review “'The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear,' a look at the vaccine-autism controversy by Seth Mnookin,” The Austin American-Statesman (January 16, 2011).
“The Genetically Modified Alfalfa Scare: Don't Panic,” The Atlantic (February 16, 2011) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/02/the- genetically-modified-alfalfa-scare-dont-panic/71337/
“B.R. Myers and the Myth of 'Sustainable' Food,” The Atlantic (March 1, 2011) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/03/br-myers-and-the- myth-of-sustainable-food/71894/
“Organic Crops Alone Can't Feed the World,” Slate.com (March 10, 2011) accessed on May 1, 2013, http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/green_room/2011/03/organic_crops_al one_cant_feed_the_world.html
“Worshipping Weeds: The Parable of the Tares, The Rhetoric of Ecology, and the Origins of Agrarian Exceptionalism in Early America,” Environmental History (April 2011), p. 290-311.
“An Inconvenient Truth: Free-Range Meat Isn't 'Natural',” The Atlantic (April 8, 2011) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/04/an- inconvenient-truth-free-range-meat-isnt-natural/237006/
“Foodies vs. Darwin: How Meat Eaters Ignore Science,” The Atlantic (May 19, 2011) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/05/foodies-vs- darwin-how-meat-eaters-ignore-science/239127/
“The Meat Myth: Free-Range Isn't Always Safer,” The Atlantic (June 1, 2011) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/06/the-meat-myth-free- range-isnt-always-safer/239742/
“Taking Lab Rats Seriously: The Case Against (Most) Animal Testing,” Freakonomics.com (June 28, 2011) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/06/28/taking-lab-rats-seriously-the-case-against- animal-testing/
“Greenwashing the Groceries,” Freakonomics.com (June 30, 2011) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/06/30/greenwashing-the-groceries/
“How 'Conscientious Carnivores' Ignore Meat's True Origins,” The Atlantic (July 12, 2011) accessed on May 7, 2013 http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/07/how- conscientious-carnivores-ignore-meats-true-origins/241828/
“Backyard Hens: A Trend Coming Home to Roost?” Freakonomics.com (July 27, 2011) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/07/27/backyard-hens-a- trend-coming-home-to-roost/
“The Case for Biofortification,” Freakonomics.com (August 4, 2011) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/08/04/the-case-for-biofortification/
“A Greens Revolution,” The Texas Observer, (August 5, 2011).
“The Dangerous Psychology of Factory Farming,” The Atlantic (August 24, 2011) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/08/the- dangerous-psychology-of-factory-farming/244063/
“The Locavore Movement's Mistake: Deregulating Animal Slaughter,” The Atlantic (September 13, 2011) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/09/the-locavore-movements-mistake- deregulating-animal-slaughter/244897/
“Killing What You Eat: The Dark Side of Compassionate Carnivorism,” Freakonomics.com (September 20, 2011) accessed on May 7. 2013 http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/09/20/killing-what-you-eat-the-dark-side-of- compassionate-carnivorism/.
“Should Urban Farmers Be Allowed to Slaughter Backyard Animals?” The Atlantic (October 13, 2011) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/10/should-urban-farmers-be-allowed-to- slaughter-backyard-animals/246526/
“Urban Chic(k), Do the drawbacks of eating backyard eggs outweigh the benefits?” The Texas Observer (October 20, 2011).
“Only When Meat Is Stigmatized Will Factory Farms Stop Thriving,” The Atlantic (October 24, 2011) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/10/only-when-meat-is-stigmatized-will- factory-farms-stop-thriving/247139/
“McFib? The Conditions at McDonald's McRib Pork Supplier,” The Atlantic (November 3, 2011) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/11/mcfib-the-conditions-at-mcdonalds- mcrib-pork-supplier/247779/
“How PETA's Lawsuit Against Sea World Could End Factory Farming,” The Atlantic (November 11, 2011) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/11/how-petas-lawsuit-against-sea- world-could-end-factory-farming/248127/
“Agnostic Carnivores and Global Warming: Why Enviros Go After Coal and Not Cows” Freakonomics.com (November 16, 2011) accessed on May 3, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/11/16/agnostic-carnivores-and-global-warming- why-enviros-go-after-coal-and-not-cows/
“The Empathy Test: Why Nobody Cares About Horse Slaughter,” The Atlantic (December 7, 2011) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/12/the-empathy-test-why-nobody-cares- about-horse-slaughter/249559/
“Hunting for Euphemisms: How We Trick Ourselves to Excuse Killing,” The Atlantic (December 21, 2011) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/12/hunting-for-euphemisms-how-we- trick-ourselves-to-excuse-killing/250213/
2010 ”The Pen and the Plow: Bridging the Knowledge Gap between American Entomology and Agriculture, 1740-1870,” American Entomologist 56, 1 (2010): 44-53.
“2009: Hard on People, Good for Animals,” The Atlantic (January 4, 2010) accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/01/2009-hard-on-people- good-for-animals/32857/
“Italy’s Culinary Paradox,” Freakonomics.com (January 15, 2010) accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2010/01/15/italys-culinary-paradox/
“Beware the Myth of Grass-Fed Beef, Cows raised at pasture are not immune to deadly E. coli bacteria,” Slate.com (January 22, 2010) accessed on May 3, 2013, http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/green_room/2010/01/beware_the_myth _of_grassfed_beef.html
“Aronia Berries: The Next Açaí?” The Atlantic (February 1, 2010) accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/02/aronia-berries-the-next-a- a/35016/
“How About Them (Wrapped) Apples?”Freakonomics.com (February 8, 2010) accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2010/02/08/how-about-them-wrapped- apples/
“Cellophane: Dinner of the Future?” The Atlantic (February 10, 2010) accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/02/cellophane-dinner-of-the- future/35657/
“Depression Apples,” Freakonomics.com (February 17, 2010) accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2010/02/17/depression-apples/
“Technology and Tenure,” Freakonomics.com (February 23, 2010) accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2010/02/23/technology-and-tenure/
“Green Building: LEEDing Us Where?” Freakonomics.com (March 3, 2010) accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2010/03/19/green-building-leeding-us-where/
“The Persistence of the Primitive Food Movement,” Freakonomics.com (March 9, 2010) accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2010/03/09/the-persistence-of- the-primitive-food-movement/
“Community Supported Agriculture: A Ripoff?”The Atlantic (March 10, 2010) accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/03/community- supported-agriculture-a-ripoff/37246/
“When Tofu Haters Attack,” The Atlantic (March 16, 2010) accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/03/when-tofu-haters-attack/37511/
“Save the Planet: Eat Peanut Butter and Jelly,” The Atlantic (April 1, 2010) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/04/save-the-planet-eat- peanut-butter-and-jelly/38284/
“Roadkill Ecology,” Freakonomics.com (April 7, 2010) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2010/04/07/roadkill-ecology/
“Carnivorous Climate Skeptics in the Media,” The Atlantic (April 22, 2010) accessed on May 7, 2013http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/04/carnivorous-climate- skeptics-in-the-media/39177/
“What's Behind the Honeybee Decline? Perhaps Not What You've Heard,” Freakonomics.com (April 28, 2010) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2010/04/28/whats-behind-the-honeybee-decline-perhaps- not-what-youve-heard/
“The Science of GM Crops: A New, Fair Report,” The Atlantic (April 29, 2010) accessed on May 7, 2013 http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/04/the-science-of-gm- crops-a-new-fair-report/39649/ “Is Free-Range Meat Making Us Sick?” The Atlantic (May 10, 2010) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/05/is-free-range-meat-making-us- sick/56333/
Ronald, Pamela C. and James E. McWilliams. “Genetically Engineered Distortions,” The New York Times (May 15, 2010): Section A; Column 0; Editorial Desk; OP-ED Contributors; 19.
“For Whom the Wind Blows,” Freakonomics.com (May 17, 2010) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2010/05/17/for-whom-the-wind-blows/
Ronald, Pamela C. and James E. McWilliams. “Genetically engineered distortions,” The International Herald Tribune (May 18, 2010), 6.
“Organic Agriculture: A Solution to Global Warming?”Freakonomics.com (June 2, 2010) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2010/06/02/organic-agriculture- a-solution-to-global-warming/
“McDonald's vs. Chipotle: Does the Big Mac Win?” The Atlantic (June 15 2010) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/06/mcdonalds- vs-chipotle-does-the-big-mac-win/58142/
“Eating (Synthetic) Animals,” The Atlantic (June 30, 2010) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/06/eating-synthetic-animals/58930/
“Fair Trade and the Food Movement,” Freakonomics.com (June 30, 2010) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2010/06/30/fair-trade-and-the-food-movement/
“What We Know, and Don't, About Children and Junk Food,” Freakonomics.com (July 22, 2010) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2010/07/22/what-we- know-and-dont-about-children-and-junk-food/
“The Deadstock Dilemma: Our Toxic Meat Waste,” The Atlantic (August 11, 2010) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/08/the- deadstock-dilemma-our-toxic-meat-waste/61191/
“The Biodiversity Card,” Freakonomics.com (August 27, 2010) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2010/08/27/the-biodiversity-card/
“Should We Really Pay $4 for a Peach?” The Atlantic (September 7, 2010) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/09/should-we-really-pay- 4-for-a-peach/62503/
“Unscrambling the Egg Disaster,” Freakonomics.com (September 8,2010) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2010/09/28/unscrambling-the-egg-disaster/
“The Evils of Corn Syrup: How Food Writers Got It Wrong,” The Atlantic (September 21, 2010) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/09/the-evils-of-corn-syrup-how-food- writers-got-it-wrong/63281/
“How a Texas Convenience Store Became a Locavore Haven,” The Atlantic (October13 2010) accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/10/how- a-texas-convenience-store-became-a-locavore-haven/64461/
“GMOs and Mother Nature? Closer Than You Think,” Freakonomics.com (November 9, 2010) accessed on May 7, 2013 http://www.freakonomics.com/2010/11/09/gmos-and- mother-nature-closer-than-you-think/
“A Golden Opportunity to Rethink Genetically Modified Foods,” The Atlantic (November 10, 2010) accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/11/a-golden-opportunity-to-rethink- genetically-modified-foods/66318/
“How Journalists Got the Cheese Lobbying Story Wrong,” The Atlantic (November 17, 2010) accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/11/how- journalists-got-the-cheese-lobbying-story-wrong/66663/
“Consider the Turkey,” The Atlantic (November 24 2010) accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/11/consider-the-turkey/66967/
“The Rational War on Fat,” Freakonomics.com (December 1, 2010) accessed on May 7, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2010/12/01/the-rational-war-on-fat/
“Why Free-Range Meat Isn't Much Better Than Factory-Farmed,” The Atlantic (December 7 2010)accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/12/why-free range-meat-isnt-much- better-than-factory-farmed/67569/
2009 “The Green Monster, Could Frankenfoods be good for the environment?” Slate.com (January 28, 2009) accessed on May 3, 2013, http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/green_room/2009/01/the_green_monst er.html
“Butter, Milk, and a "Spare Ribb": Women's Work and the Transatlantic Economic Transition in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts,” The New England Quarterly 82, no. 1 (March 2009):5-24.
Review “The Early American Table, by Trudy Eden,” Agricultural History (Spring 2009).
“Free-Range Trichinosis,” The New York Times (April 10, 2009): Section A; Column 0; Editorial Desk; OP-ED Contributor; 23.
“Is Free-Range Pork Really Riskier?” The Atlantic (April 14, 2009) accessed on May 6 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2009/04/is-free-range- porkreallyriskier/13074/
“The Pesticide Push, A last-minute decision by the Bush administration to change the way pesticides are labeled needs to be undone,” Slate.com (April 21, 2009) accessed on May 3, 2013, http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/green_room/2009/04/the_pesticide_pus h.html
“The Mystery of Spain's Sublime Ham,” The Atlantic (May 26 2009) accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2009/05/the-mystery-of-spains-sublime- ham/18233/
“The Hangover Cure With a Catch,” The Atlantic (June 10, 2009) accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2009/06/the-hangover-cure-with-a- catch/19016/
“Hog Heaven? Life is no picnic for free-range pigs,” Slate.com (June 29, 2009) accessed on May 3, 2013, http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2009/06/hog_heaven.html
“Funding the Future of Organic Farming,” The Atlantic (July 14 2009) accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2009/07/funding-the-future-of- organic-farming/21156/
“Are Organic Veggies Better for You? Maybe, or maybe not. Either way, it's a useless debate,” Slate.com (August 5, 2009) accessed on May 3, 2013, http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/green_room/2009/08/are_organic_vegg ies_better_for_you.html
“The Real Value of Organic Food,” The Atlantic (August 18 2009) accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2009/08/the-real-value-of-organic- food/23305/
“Will the Anti-Locavorism Never End?” Freakonomics.com (August 26, 2008) accessed on May 1, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2008/08/26/will-the-anti-locavorism- never-end/
“An Excerpt from Just Food by James McWilliams” Texas Monthly (September 2009).
Review “Feast or Famine: Food and Drink in American Westward Expansion by Reginald Horsman,” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 113, no. 2 (October 2009): 261-262.
“Are Farmers' Markets That Good for Us?” Freakonomics.com (October 2, 2009) accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2009/10/02/are-farmers- markets-that-good-for-us/
“Let the Farmers' Market Debate Continue,” Freakonomics.com (October, 7, 2009) accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2009/10/07/let-the-farmers-market-debate-continue/
“Is Locavorism for Rich People Only?”Freakonomics.com (October14, 2009) accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2009/10/14/is-locavorism-for-rich-people-only/
“Questioning the morality of meat,” The Austin American-Statesman (November 3, 2009).
“Crate Expectations,” Freakonomics.com (November12, 2009) accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.freakonomics.com/2009/11/12/crate-expectations/
“Bellying up to environmentalism,” The Washington Post (November 16, 2009): Editorial Copy; A21.
“Here's my (personal) beef with meat,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (November 18, 2009): Section: Opinion; 15A.
“The Fate of Obama's Turkey Pardons,” The Atlantic (November 21 2009) accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2009/11/the-fate-of-obamas- turkey-pardons/30616/
Review “Industrializing the Corn Belt: Agriculture, Technology, and Environment, 1945- 1972 by J. L. Anderson,” The Journal of American History 96, no. 3 (December 2009): 906.
“Good Food: Who Can Afford It?” The Atlantic (December 9, 2009) accessed on May 6, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2009/12/good-food-who-can-afford- it/31444/
2008 “Food Politics, Half-Baked,” The New York Times (February 5, 2008): Section A; Column 0; Editorial Desk; OP-ED Contributor; 23.
“Food politics, half-baked; Myths and threats,” The International Herald Tribune, (February 6, 2008): Opinion; 6.
“More Than One Man Can Chew,” The Texas Observer (March 21, 2008).
Review “African American Foodways, by Anne Bower (ed.),” American Historical Review (Spring 2008).
"The Horizon Opened up Very Greatly": Leland O. Howard and the Transition to Chemical Insecticides in the United States, 1894-1927,” Agricultural History 82,no. 4 (Fall, 2008): 468-495.
“Rusted Roots, Is organic agriculture polluting our food with heavy metals?” Slate.com (September 8, 2008) accessed on May 1, 2013, http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/green_room/2008/09/rusted_roots.html
“China, America and melamine; Global food chain,” The International Herald Tribune (November 17, 2008): Opinion; 8.
“Our Home-Grown Melamine Problem,” The New York Times (November 17, 2008): Section A; Column 0; Editorial Desk; OP-ED Columnist; 27.
“Tainted Government, How did the Food and Drug Administration let melamine into the U.S. food supply?” Slate.com (December 29, 2008) accessed on May 1,2013, http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/green_room/2008/12/tainted_governm ent.html
2007 “Up or Out in the Colonies,” The Texas Observer (January 12, 2007).
“Torture American Style,” The Texas Observer (April 20, 2007).
“Food That Travels Well,” The New York Times (August 6, 2007): Section A; Column 0; Editorial Desk; OP-ED Contributor; 19.
“Homegrown isn't always best; Food and fuel I,” The International Herald Tribune (August 7, 2007): Opinion; 6.
“Moveable Feast, Eating Local Isn’t Always the Greenest Option,” The Texas Observer (August 10, 2007).
Review “Autobiography of John Russell Bartlett (1805-1886) by Jerry E. Mueller, John Russell Bartlett,” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 111, no. 2 (October 2007): 230- 232.
2006 “Pass the Pesticides,” The Texas Observer (January 13, 2006).
“Cuisine and National Identity in the Early Republic,” Historically Speaking (May/June 2006): 5-8.
Review “Marketing Middle-Class Morality. Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn: Visions of Youth in Middle-Class America, 1780-1850 by Rodney Hessinger,” Reviews in American History 34, no. 2 (June 2006): 162-168.
Review “The Purist’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” The Texas Observer (June 2, 2006).
Review “Food in History, by Jeffrey Pilcher,” Journal of the Social History of Medicine (Summer 2006).
“Out of Our Gourds,” The New York Times (October 24, 2006): Section A; Column 2; Editorial Desk; 29.
“A Halloween pumpkin you can eat, too; MEANWHILE,” The International Herald Tribune (October 25, 2006): Opinion; 7.
“We must be out of our gourds,” The Telegraph-Journal, New Brunswick (October 30, 2006): Section: Opinion; A5.
2005 ”African Americans, Native Americans, and the Origins of American Food,” The Texas Journal of History and Genealogy 4 (2005): 1-16.
Review “How goes the war?; Two looks at Iraq, from the trenches and an Arab newsroom, David Zucchino's Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad and Hugh Miles’ Al-Jazeera: How Arab TV News Challenges America,” The Austin American-Statesman (January 30, 2005): Section: Lifestyle; K5.
Review “Patently ridiculous; Three books look at how intellectual property rights are stifling innovation, Adam B. Jaffe's and Josh Lerner's Innovation and Its Discontents; John Gantz's and Jack B. Rochester's Pirates of the Digital Millennium and Kembrew McLeod's Freedom of Expression,” The Austin American-Statesman (March 6, 2005): Section: Lifestyle; K5.
Review “Reagan: He's baaaack!; How an ex-lifeguard went from B-list actor to A-list president to enduring American icon, Gil Troy’s Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s, John Ehrman’s The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan and Craig Shirley’s Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign that Started It All,” The Austin American-Statesman (March 27, 2005):Section: Lifestyle; K5.
Review, “The ugly American habit of belittling the French; 'Vive la difference' gives way to 'We'll always hate Paris', Denis Boyles' Vile France: Fear, Duplicity, Cowardice, and Cheese; John J. Miller and Mark Molesky’s Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France; Harlow Giles Unger's The French War Against America; Kenneth Timmerman's The French Betrayal of America; Richard Chesnoff's The Arrogance of the French: Why They Can't Stand Us -- and Why the Feeling's Mutual and Stephen Clarke's A Year in the Merde,” The Austin American-Statesman (May 15, 2005): Section: Lifestyle; K8.
“Thrilling, Chilling, and all Too True,” The Texas Observer (May 27, 2005).
Review, “These aren't your father's elitist pinheads; Three books on the Iraq war suggest that conservatives are the new liberals, Robert W. Merry’s Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition; David L. Phillips’ Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco and Larry Diamond’s Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq,” The Austin American-Statesman (June 26, 2005): Section: Lifestyle; K5.
Review, “IT WAS A VERY BAD YEAR; Why do so many history books have dates for titles?, Winston Groom's 1942: The Year That Tried Men's Souls; Charles C. Mann's 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus and David McCullough's 1776,” The Austin American-Statesman (July 24, 2005): Section: Lifestyle; K5.
Review, “How many fathers does it take to make a nation? Many, according to current flurry of titles, Harvey J. Kaye's Thomas Paine and the Promise of America; Paul Johnson's George Washington: Founding Father and Christopher Hitchens’ Thomas Jefferson: Author of America,” The Austin American-Statesman (August 28, 2005): Section: Lifestyle; K5.
“’how unripe we are’: An Intellectual Construction of American Food,” Food, Society, and Culture (Fall 2005): 143-160.
Review, “In two new biographies, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Michael Lind argue that Abraham Lincoln was as shrewd as he was tall, Michael Lind's What Lincoln Believed, and Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Teal of Rivals,” The Austin American-Statesman (October 23, 2005): Section: Lifestyle;K5.
“They Held Their Noses, And Ate,” The New York Times (November 24, 2005): Section A; Column 1; Editorial Desk; 33.
Review, “We wish you a Merry . . . uh . . . uh . . .; This is going to be the most contested Christmas ever! Kevin Seamus Hasson’s The Right to be Wrong: Ending the Culture War Over Religion in America; Neil Baldwin’s The American Revelation: Ten Ideals That Shaped Our Country from the Puritans to the Cold War; Bill Press’ How the Republicans Stole Christmas: The Republican Party's Declared Monopoly on Religion and What Democrats Can Do to Take it Back,” The Austin American- Statesman (December 25, 2005): Section: Lifestyle; K5.
2004 Review “Dining at the Governor's Mansion by Carl R. McQueary,” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 107, no. 3 (January 2004): 497-498.
Review “Long story of a short battle, Meticulous account of San Jacinto campaign is relentlessly researched and minutely detailed -- perhaps too much so for the average reader, Stephen L. Moore’s Eighteen Minutes: The Battle of San Jacinto and the Texas Independence Campaign,” The Austin American-Statesman (January 4, 2004): Section: Lifestyle; K5.
“Just Another Leftist Loon,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (January 8, 2004).
“Raging Against Academe,” The Texas Observer, (January 16, 2004).
Review, “History with Heart, H. W. Brands’ Lone Star Nation,” The Austin American- Statesman (February 7, 2004): Section: Lifestyle; K5.
“WHO IS 'THE WORKING MAN'?; NOT WHO CANDIDATES SUGGEST,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, (February 29, 2004): Section: Business; B-2.
"To Forward Well-Flavored Productions": The Kitchen Garden in Early New England,” The New England Quarterly 77, no. 1 (March 2004): 25-50.
“Consumers share blame for culinary perils,” USA TODAY (March 8, 2004): Section: News; 13A.
“My Fabulous Fawn,” Texas Observer (March 26, 2004).
“Integrating Primary and Secondary Sources,” Teaching History (Spring 2004), p.3-14.
“Lit, Crit, ‘N Grits, Wyoming Lit? Rhode Island Lit? Please, Texas Lit? Now you're talking. A Conversation with Don Graham,” The Texas Observer (April 9, 2004).
Review, “Fat and Fiction, Paul Campo’s The Obesity Myth,” The Austin American- Statesman (May 9, 2004).
“Stealing the Answers: Prevaricators in the Classroom,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (May 14, 2004).
Review, “Order Anther Statue, Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton” The Austin American-Statesman (May 16, 2004).
“Le Guru Returns,” The Texas Observer (May 21, 2004).
Review “BIG THINKERS; Three pundits ponder the post-Sept. 11 world, Michael Ignatieff’s The Lesser Evil; Walter Russell Mead’s Power, Terror, Peace, and War and Jonathan Schell’s A Hole in the World,” The Austin American-Statesman (June 20, 2004): Section: Lifestyle; K5.
“The Narrow Halls of Academe,” The Washington Post (August 25, 2004): A17.
Review “CAN'T LIVE WITH HIM, CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT HIM; The right's sure-fire dream team: Bush/God '04, Peter Singer's The President of Good and Evil, Stephen Mansfield’s The Faith of George W. Bush and David Aikman’s A Man Of Faith: The Spiritual Journey of George W. Bush,” The Austin American-Statesman (August 29, 2004): Section: Lifestyle; K5.
“'Slow food' and a bit of gardening - one way to stop the bulge,” Christian Science Monitor (September 23, 2004): 09.
“American Gothic Vs. Gang Pluck,” The Texas Observer (November 5, 2004).
Review “Eat your ethics every time you grab a burger, Stephen Sloan’s Ocean Bankruptcy: World Fisheries on the Brink of Disaster; Vaclav Smil’s Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of the World's Food Production; Ken Midkiff’s The Meat You Eat: How Corporate Farming Has Endangered America's Food Supply and Christopher Cook’s Diet for a Dead Planet: How the Food Industry is Killing Us,” The Austin American-Statesman (December 5, 2004): Section: Lifestyle; L5.
2003 “Driven to Perfection” US Airways Attaché (January 2003).
“No Boundaries, Baby,” The Texas Observer (January 17, 2003).
Review “Buy, Buy Love, Thomas Hine’s I Want That!: How We All Became Shoppers” The Texas Observer (February 28, 2003).
Afterword “Diary of a Lapsed Catholic,” The Texas Observer (March 14, 2003). Exhibition “ ‘Transatlantic relations, ’New Orleans Museum of Art, ‘Jefferson’s America & Napoleon’s France,’” Travel & Leisure (April 2003).
Exhibition “Compelled to Create. Strange Messenger: The Work of Patti Smith,” The Texas Observer (April 25, 2003).
Review “Three Easy Pieces, Eric Schlosser’s Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market” The Texas Observer (May 23, 2003).
Review “The Master Manipulator, Steve Mcvicker’s I Love You Phillip Morris” The Texas Observer (July 4, 2003).
Review “The End of Genetic Innocence, Bill McKibben’s Enough,” The Texas Observer (August 1, 2003).
“The Marble Falls, The Demise of one small town’s one-screen theatre comes down to cold logic in a big business,” The Austin Chronicle (August 1, 2003).
Review, “On His Hightower Again, Jim Hightower’s Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country— And It's Time to Take It Back,” The Austin American-Statesman (August 17, 2003).
Review “Too Much to Swallow, Peter Pringle’s Food Inc: Mendel to Monsanto-The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest,” The Texas Observer (August 29, 2003).
Review, “An F for Attitude, Elizabeth Gold’s Brief Intervals of Horrible Sanity,” The Austin American- Statesman, (September 14, 2003).
“Pinch Me: I'm a Full-Time Historian,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (September 16, 2003).
“Machinations,” The Texas Observer (September 26, 2003).
Exhibition “Renaissance Men,” Travel & Leisure (October 2003).
Review “Picture Yourself Here, Taryn Simson’s The Innocents,” The Texas Observer (November 7, 2003).
Afterword “The Golden Age of Obligations,” The Texas Observer (December 5, 2003).
2002 “Re-Tooling America,” The Texas Observer (February 1, 2002).
“Learning One's Letters: Why was Oscar Wilde's 'Letter to Momma' lurking undiscovered in Texas?” Austin Chronicle (February 8, 2002).
“A Pox on All of Us,” The Texas Observer (March 15, 2002).
Review “War is, Well, . . . Nuts, Gabe Hudson’s Dear Mr. President,” The Texas Observer (April 11, 2003).
“Waste Not,” The Texas Observer (April 12, 2002).
Afterword “Published on Friday,” The Texas Observer (April 26, 2002).
Review “Do You Really Know What Happened?, Eric Foner’s Who owns History?” The Austin American- Statesman April 28, 2002).
“Devil in the Details: Why Is 'Talented Amateur Historian' Leon Day Obsessed With the Death of Ambrose Bierce?” Austin Chronicle (May 17, 2002).
“Exposed in Cincinnati,” The Texas Observer (May 24, 2002).
Review “The Rise and Fall of an American Militiaman, Jane Kramer’s Lone Patriot: the short career of a an American militiaman,” The Austin American-Statesman (June 16, 2002).
Review “Born in the USA, Joseph Illick’s American Childhoods” The Texas Observer (June 21, 2002).
“New England's First Depression: Beyond an Export-Led Interpretation” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 33, no. 1 (Summer 2002): 1-20.
“The Transition from Capitalism and the Consolidation of Authority in the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1607- 1760: An Interpretive Model,” Maryland Historical Magazine (Summer 2002).
Review “The Well-tempered Essayist, Lillian Ross’ Notes on Journalism,” The Austin American- Statesman, (July 28, 2002).
Review “ ‘Gold’ Mines New History, H.W. Brands' The Age of Gold,” The Austin American-Statesman (August 18, 2002). Section: Lifestyle; Pg. K5
“History 101: Ignorance as Power,” The Texas Observer (August 30, 2002).
Review “Donald Barthelme: The Genesis of a Cool Sound by Helen Barthelme.” Southwestern American Literature (Fall 2002).
Afterword “Missed Epiphanies,” The Texas Observer (October 25, 2002).
“Boys Will Be Boys,” The Texas Observer (November 8, 2002).
Review “Slaughterhouse 6, 7, 8 . . ., Peter Lovenheim’s Portrait of a Burger as a Young Calf: The Story of One Man, Two Cows, and the Feeding of a Nation” The Texas Observer (December 20, 2002).
Afterword “The Main Things,” The Texas Observer (December 20, 2002).
2001 “The Unrevolution,” The Texas Observer (March 16, 2001).
Review “Fast Food Nation, Review of: Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation” The Texas Observer (June 8, 2001).
“Work, Family, and Economic Improvement in Late-Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Bay: The Case of Joshua Buffum,” The New England Quarterly 74, no. 3 (September, 2001): 355-384.
“Counting Beans, Losing Lives,” The Texas Observer (October 12, 2001).
1999 Review “Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal, by Anya Jabour,” Maryland Historical Magazine (Summer 1999).
1998 “Brewing Beer in Massachusetts Bay, 1640-1690” The New England Quarterly, 71, no.4 (December, 1998): 543-569.