PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
The Lyrical Left: Randolph Bourne, Alfred Stieglitz, and the Origins of Cultural Radicalism in America
(Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986; paperback, 1988).
ESSAYS
“Personalized Medicine: Past, Present, and Future,” Inside Precision Medicine, November 6, 2024
“Towards Targeted Therapeutics,” The Journal of Precision Medicine, May 2016 (with Stephen Eck).
“The History of Personalized Medicine,” in Integrative Neuroscience and Personalized Medicine (N.Y.: Oxford
University Press, 2011) (with Mike Silver).
“The Case for Personalized Medicine,” Diabetes Technology Review, March 2009 (with Mike Silver).
“Right Drug – Right Patient – Right Time,” Clinical Translation Science, April 2008.
“Personalized Medicine Coalition: Goals and Strategies,” American Journal of Pharmacogenomics, November 2005.
“Federal Support for University Research,” in Ten Public Policy Issues for Higher Education in 1999 and 2000
(Washington, D.C.: AGB, 1999).
“Alfred Stieglitz,” in A Companion to American Thought, eds. Richard Wightman Fox and James T. Kloppenberg
(Cambridge: Blackwell, 1995).
“Higher Education’s Nervous Breakdown,” Management Issues, May 1993.
Preface, Intimate Visions: The Photographs of Dorothy Norman (S.F.: Chronicle Books, 1993).
“Alfred Stieglitz’s Faith and Vision,” in 1915: The Cultural Moment, eds. Adele Heller and Lois Rudnick
(New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991).
“Let Them All Be Damned – I’ll Do As I Please,” American Heritage, September–October, 1987.
Four biographies in American Reformers, ed. Alden Whitman (N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1985).
“Unreal Estate,” New Republic, January 3, 1983.
“Watt’s Lump of Coal,” New Republic, August 9, 1982.
“Alfred Stieglitz and/or Thomas Hart Benton,” Arts Magazine, June 1981.
“Randolph Bourne on Feminism and Feminists,” The Historian, May 1981.
“Alfred Stieglitz and the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” Arts Magazine, June 1979.
“Ignatius Donnelly and the Apocalyptic Style,” Minnesota History, Fall 1978.
“The Pain of the Millennium: Charles Taze Russell and the Jehovah’s Witnesses, 1879-1916,” American Studies, Spring 1977.
REVIEWS
“Book Review | Inheritance,” Moment, July 16, 2019.
“From Unicorn to Jailbird?,” Journal of Precision Medicine, June 2019
“Wall to Wall Genius,” Washington Post, January 3, 1999.
“One Woman Against the Tide,” Washington Post, April 5, 1998.
“Two Cheers for Education,” Washington Post, October 26, 1997.
“Taking Aim at Colleges,” Washington Post, July 27, 1997.
“Teaching Them His Way,” Washington Post, April 6, 1997.
“The Old Left in History and Literature,” Journal of American History, December 1996.
“Getting What You Pay For,” Washington Post, July 28, 1996.
“A Rebel With Causes,” Washington Post, January 7, 1996.
“Beyond the Pleasure Principle,” Washington Post, July 17, 1994.
“Pursuing Shadows,” Washington Post, December 13, 1992.
“Lewis Mumford: Public Intellectual,” Journal of American History, December 1992.
“Artists and Lovers,” Washington Post, May 26, 1991.
“Evenings With Mabel,” Washington Post, April 28, 1991.
“Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Power of the Purse,” Washington Post, April 22, 1990.
“O’Keeffe: Sun and Shadow,” Washington Post, November 12, 1989.
“The Image Maker,” New Republic, January 30, 1989.
“Irving Babbitt,” Journal of American History, December 1988.
“Feeling Important,” Present Tense, January – February 1988.
“Founding Father of the New Republic,” Washington Post, May 12, 1985.
“Focusing on the Modern,” Washington Post, January 30, 1983.
OPINION PIECES
“Personalized treatments may be threatened by drug-cost containment proposal,” STAT News, July 18, 2019
“Diversity in clinical trials defines good science and better medicine,” STAT News, January 17, 2019 (with Jane Delgado).
“A focus on cost instead of value threatens the future of personalized medicine,” STAT News, May 23, 2018.
“Landmark FDA approval bolsters personalized medicine,” STAT News, June 21, 2017.
“Health Sciences Could Be the Pill for Boosting Philadelphia Area’s Future,” Philadelphia Inquirer, July 15, 2000.
“America: Does It Still Work,” Providence Journal, February 19, 1996.
“Lyndon Johnson, Brown, and the Birth of NEH,” Providence Journal, March 17, 1996.
“Bush Is Just Bush – Not Harry Truman,” Christian Science Monitor, September 10, 1992.
“Stop Attacks on Colleges,” Syracuse Post-Standard, March 20, 1992.
“Silent Decay,” Washington Post, October 27, 1989.