Just for the hell of it, here's a list of the things I wrote in 2020 I'm most proud of:
(1) "What Michael Brooks Meant To Me" https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/michael-brooks-tmbs
What Michael Brooks Meant to Me

Michael Brooks was one of the funniest, most intellectually curious human beings I’ve ever known. He was also deeply committed to creating a better world.

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/michael-brooks-tmbs
(2) "There Will Be Time: Quentin Smith, 1952-2020" https://arcdigital.media/there-will-be-time-9545ec4d36d8
There Will Be Time

Quentin Smith (1952–2020)

https://arcdigital.media/there-will-be-time-9545ec4d36d8
(3) "Judith Jarvis Thomson, 1929-2020" https://jacobinmag.com/2020/11/judith-jarvis-thompson-obituary-abortion-essay?fbclid=IwAR3d1lblHo4lmopYIKWvw82FS1ERsGGRgpCMoiwjAO27r2vLodIE5ZFgnHM
Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929–2020)

Judith Jarvis Thomson was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. Her justly famous essay in defense of abortion rights is a model for how to combine philosophical rigor with...

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/11/judith-jarvis-thompson-obituary-abortion-essay?fbclid=IwAR3d1lblHo4lmopYIKWvw82FS1ERsGGRgpCMoiwjAO27r2vLodIE5ZFgnHM
(4) "So You're Still Being Publicly Shamed" https://jacobinmag.com/2020/09/publicly-shamed-jon-ronson-cancel-culture
So You’re Still Being Publicly Shamed

The Right wants you to believe that a coddled, overly sensitive left is propping up cancel culture. But punitive, hyper-surveillant ways of interacting online are built into the structure of privat...

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/09/publicly-shamed-jon-ronson-cancel-culture
(5) "Overdosing on Symbolism" https://arcdigital.media/overdosing-on-symbolism-188f3dd16a29
Overdosing on Symbolism

On reorienting the politics of reform towards the substantive

https://arcdigital.media/overdosing-on-symbolism-188f3dd16a29
(6) "Debunking the Many Bad Arguments Against Medicare for All" https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/01/the-many-bad-arguments-against-medicare-for-all
The Many Bad Arguments Against Medicare For All ❧ Current Affairs

Debunking some common talking points.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/01/the-many-bad-arguments-against-medicare-for-all
(7) "Arguing with Glenn Beck" (co-written with @NathanJRobinson) https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/11/arguing-with-glenn-beck
Arguing with Glenn Beck ❧ Current Affairs

Glenn Beck’s minions have produced a visually impressive but intellectually barren guide to socialism.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/11/arguing-with-glenn-beck
(8) "Let's Stop Talking About the 'Overton Window'" https://jacobinmag.com/2020/09/joseph-overton-window-bernie-sanders
Let’s Stop Talking About the “Overton Window”

Socialists should be making well-thought-out proposals for a better future and building the class power to bring that program into reality. The idea that our purpose is simply “shifting the Overton...

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/09/joseph-overton-window-bernie-sanders
(9) "How to Argue with Libertarians About Taxation--And Destroy Them" (despite the cheeky title this is my best attempt to thoughtfully answer everything libertarians have thrown at me on this topic in the last couple years): https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/libertarian-taxation-property-rights
How to Debate Libertarians on Taxes — And Destroy Them

On Tax Day, here’s a guide to arguing with libertarians about redistribution.

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/libertarian-taxation-property-rights
(10) "The Cosmopolitan Socialism of Michael Brooks https://jacobinmag.com/2020/08/cosmopolitan-socialism-michael-brooks
The Cosmopolitan Socialism of Michael Brooks

Michael Brooks, who would have turned 37 years old today, wanted the Left to do better. In the last year of his life, he’d started to write a book about what that might look like.

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/08/cosmopolitan-socialism-michael-brooks
(And yes the fact that so many of those are remembrances of people who died this year probably does say something about what kind of year it's been.)
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