Commentary
I've been a contributor to, or quoted by, a wide range of international media outlets: Wall Street Journal; Washington Post; The New Yorker magazine; The Atlantic; USA Today; Vox.com; CNN; Huffington Post; Newsweek; Axios; New York Magazine; National Public Radio; ABC News (US and Australia); Bloomberg News; Defense News; VICE News; Forbes.com; Breakingdefense.com; Barron’s; Stars & Stripes; Chosun Ilbo; Joongang Ilbo; Yonhap; Korea Herald; Yomiuri Shimbun; NHK; Radio NZ; TVNZ One; Korea Times; NK News; Arirang News TV; Kyodo News; Japan Times; Radio Free Asia; VOA News
Several examples of my "most read" commentary have been included below. See my CV for a fuller list.
“Vivek Ramaswamy’s Edgelord Foreign Policy,” The Nation (August 23, 2023).
“Trapped By Empire,” Dissent Magazine (February 8, 2023).
“The Problem with Primacy,” Foreign Affairs (January 16, 2023).
“To Fear or Love Multipolarity?” Duck of Minerva (August 13, 2022).
“Great-Power Competition is Bad for Democracy,” Foreign Affairs (July 14, 2022). (with Michael Brenes)
“When 9/11 Got Hip-Hop, It Killed Dissent,” Duck of Minerva (September 12, 2021).
“America’s Indo-Pacific Folly,” Foreign Affairs (March 12, 2021).
“The Liberal Internationalist Origins of Right-Wing Insurrection,” Inkstick Media (January 11, 2021).
“Trump, Not Biden, Wrecked American Power in the Pacific,” Foreign Policy (October 23, 2020).
“Biden’s China Policy Can’t Help But Be Incoherent,” Foreign Policy (August 13, 2020).
“How American Progressives View Asian Security,” The Diplomat Magazine (November 1, 2019).
“Wagering on a Progressive versus Liberal Theory of National Security,” Texas National Security Review Vol. 2, no. 1 (2019), pp. 279-83.
“Trump and Kim Made Reality TV. So I Made a Film about It,” POLITICO Magazine (January 26, 2019).
“How Reality-Show Diplomacy with North Korea Could Backfire,” Washington Post (January 10, 2019).
“Competition with China isn’t a Strategy,” War on the Rocks (October 5, 2018).
“Is the Left Ready to Handle National Security?” POLITICO Magazine (September 11, 2018).
“The Trump-Kim Summit is Wrestlemania for Pundits,” Foreign Policy (June 11, 2018).
“What Kim Jong Un Wants from Trump,” POLITICO Magazine (April 30, 2018).
“Want to Strike North Korea? It’s Not Going to Go the Way You Think,” POLITICO Magazine (January 12, 2018).
"Reflections on Calling Trump a 'Flaming Asshole' on Public Radio," The Spinoff (September 12, 2017).
“Preventing Nuclear War with North Korea,” Foreign Affairs (September 11, 2016).
Select Media Quotes (some links provided below)
I used to try to keep track of my media interviews and quotes, but around June 2018 it got too out of hand and I started losing track.
The Atlantic (6/10/2018)
Bloomberg (5/15/2018)
Japan Times (5/8/2018)
Lawyers, Guns, & Money (5/1/2018)
The Guardian (4/26/2018)
Vox (4/18/2018)
Washington Post (3/28/2018)
Washington Post (3/9/2018)
Stars and Stripes (3/5/2018)
Japan Times (2/27/2018)
The Guardian (2/12/2018)
Smithsonian Magazine (1/23/2018)
Japan Times (1/17/2018)
CNN International (12/19/2017)
The Atlantic (11/29/2017)
Newsweek (11/24/2017)
Vox.com (11/24/2017)
USA Today (11/17/2017)
Vox.com (11/15/2017)
Bloomberg Politics (11/14/2017)
CNN.com (11/7/2017)
Washington Post (10/28/2017)
NK News (9/27/2017)
Wall Street Journal (9/26/2017)
Voice of America (9/26/2017)
Wall Street Journal (9/22/2017)
The New Yorker (9/2017)
Washington Post (8/31/2017)
Japan Times (8/17/2017)
Washington Post (8/10/2017)
Washington Post (7/26/2017)
The Guardian (7/5/2017)
Japan Times (7/3/2017)
Axios (6/28/2017)
Korea Herald (6/26/2017)
Korea Herald (6/20/2017)
The Atlantic (5/17/2017)
ABC News (4/19/2017)
Washington Post (4/11/2017)
Japan Times (4/10/2017)
New York Magazine (2/17/2017)
Bloomberg News (2/15/2017)
Wall Street Journal (10/13/2016)
Washington Post (10/7/2016)
Japan Times (9/28/2016)
Barron’s (2/2/2016)
Korea Times (1/25/2016)
Yonhap (11/12/2015)
VICE News (10/8/2015)
National Interest (6/14/2015)
National Security Zone (6/11/2015)
Defense News (6/4/2015)
Korea Times (5/27/2015)
Oil & Gas Journal (5/25/2015)
BreakingDefense.com (5/7/2015)
BreakingDefense.com (5/6/2015)
Arirang News TV (5/6/2015)
Yonhap (5/6/2015)
Korea Herald (5/6/2015)
Chosun Daily (4/29/2015)
Bloomberg News (4/28/2015)
Forbes.com (3/30/15)
Yonhap (3/24/2015) (two different articles on the same day)
Korea Observer (3/24/2015)
Korea Herald (3/24/2015)
Radio Free Asia (3/24/2015)
Arirang News TV (3/23/2015)
Korea Times (3/9/2015)
NK News (3/3/2015)
International Business Times (2/27/2015)
Global Post (2/26/2015)
Yonhap (2/26/2015)
Korea Herald (2/26/2015)
KBS World Radio (2/26/2015)
Korea Times (2/16/2015)
Korea Times (1/13/2015)
NK News (1/8/2015)
War on the Rocks Podcast (12/23/2014)
War on the Rocks Beyond Offset Video Interview (12/9/2014)
NK News (12/4/2014)
NK News (12/1/2014)
JoongAng Daily (10/22/2014)
Arirang News TV (9/16/2014)
Korea Herald (9/16/2014)