Selected writing
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Can Humanity Survive AI?
Print cover story on the AI existential risk debates featuring conversations with three-dozen people, including world-leading AI experts.
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Confessions of a McKinsey Whistleblower
Print cover story about my experience working for some of McKinsey’s most controversial clients, ICE and Rikers Island.
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Do we need a better understanding of 'progress'?
A growing and influential intellectual movement aims to understand why human progress happens – and how to speed it up. Garrison Lovely investigates.
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Pescetarians are responsible for many more animal deaths than regular meat eaters
My year as a pescetarian did more harm than good.
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Cop Shooting Highlights Slow Start for City Effort to Remove Police from 911 Mental Health Emergencies
The shooting occurred in the program’s pilot area, but even there, police still respond to four out of every five crisis calls - more than twice as many as the city had initially projected.
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Make America Trip Again
Are psychedelics a solution to our political turmoil, a dangerous unknown, or something else entirely?
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McKinsey & Company: Capital's Willing Executioners
An initially anonymous print feature about how McKinsey accelerates and exacerbates the worst trends of global capitalism.
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Solitary Confinement Is Torture, And It Should Be Banned Everywhere
New York’s HALT Solitary Act ends long-term solitary confinement. It’s not enough, but it’s a step against a torturous and inhumane practice.
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R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe Talks to Jacobin
Jacobin chatted with former R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe about why he backed Bernie Sanders, his longtime support for progressive causes including South African anti-apartheid organizing, and why the B-52s are “fucking amazing.”