Peter Birkenhead

Peter Birkenhead’s work has appeared in Salon, The Daily Beast, The Week, NY Daily News, The LA Review of Books, U.S. News, MORE, Marie Claire, The Awl, and other publications.

Abraham Feller (great uncle of the author), Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Library of Congress)

Unraveling my family’s Cold War mystery: Why did UN General Counsel Abraham Feller really die?

Peter Birkenhead

Chuck Schumer; Donald Trump; Robert Mueller (Getty/AP/Salon)

Democrats must fight for impeachment: It’s the only real antidote for Donald Trump’s lies

Peter Birkenhead

Best essays of 2017: Of mice and murder, and Ronald Reagan

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Of mice and murder, and Ronald Reagan

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Channing Tatum in "Hail, Caesar!" (Universal Pictures)

The Coen Brothers’ failure of imagination: What the “Hail, Caesar!” creators really “don’t understand” about making diverse movies

Peter Birkenhead

To Oliver Sacks, patients were people first: Resilient and adaptive, with a diagnosis that told only part of the story

Peter Birkenhead

The GOP’s destructive Vietnam mythology: How the right’s self-glorifying delusions led to decades of avoidable war

Peter Birkenhead

Why do we let New Atheists and religious zealots dominate the conversation about religion?

Peter Birkenhead

Oak Alley Plantation (Richard Sexton/<a href='http://www.oakalleyplantation.com/welcome.html'>Oak Alley Plantation</a>)

Why we still can’t talk about slavery

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Cribs vs. Beds: Parenthood’s all-out war

Peter Birkenhead

Better to be Hamlet than President George

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Give my petards to Broadway

Peter Birkenhead

“Eugenics” or freedom of choice?

Peter Birkenhead

Oprah’s ugly secret

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A hard rock

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Confessions of a utility actor

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TV’s leading men need to get laid

Peter Birkenhead