• Bio
  • Articles
  • Short CV
  • Public Writing
  • Teaching
  • Databases
  • Media and Miscellany

Merlin Chowkwanyun, PhD, MPH

  • Bio
  • Articles
  • Short CV
  • Public Writing
  • Teaching
  • Databases
  • Media and Miscellany
Public Writing

"Accusations of Socialism Have Lost Their Bite," Washington Post

"How Red-Baiting in Medicine Did Lasting Harm to American Medicine," _WashingtonPost

"When Someone Loses a Pet," Washingon Post

Interview with the GOAT

Grassroots Isn't Always Best, Boston Review

We keep pledging to study the cause of riots like Ferguson’s. And we keep ignoring the lessons, Washington Post

The War on Poverty at 50: How Far Have We Come, and Where Are We Going?, Tropics of Meta

The Taxonomy Fetish: Another View on Intellectual History and the History of Medicine, Society for U.S. Intellecutal History

"Race is Not Biology: How Unthinking Racial Essentialism Finds Its Way Into Scientific Research," The Atlantic

"The Rise of the Majority-Asian Suburb," Atlantic Cities

"How an Exclusive Los Angeles Suburb Lost Its Whiteness," Atlantic Cities

The Crisis in Thinking About the Crisis, Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy

Why Genes Don't Determine Race, New Republic