I’m a journalist and historian.
I write about a wide range of subjects, but my work has one common thread: power. I profile the powerful, the powerless, the power-hungry. And I probe the corridors of power, whether that’s the White House, Hollywood or the Vatican, often through a historical lens. The goal: to expose the dynamics of power.
I’ve written for The Washington Post, The Economist, The Times and Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, Financial Times, Foreign Policy, The Spectator, New Statesman, UnHerd, Smithsonian, TLS, Literary Review and others. My articles have been translated into French, Portuguese, Albanian and Vietnamese. I’ve appeared on Sky News, BBC World Service, France 24, LBC, SiriusXM and the TLS Podcast.
I have a PhD in American history from Cambridge University, where I also taught. I’ve been a Sorensen Fellow at the JFK Presidential Library and a Visiting Researcher at Boston University. I worked in TV for several years.
My agents are Gordon Wise and Elliot Prior at Curtis Brown in London.