In addition to my non-fiction writing, I also write opinion pieces and essays. While many appear on my blogs, the following list is a collection of such pieces that were published in more traditional outlets. The list starts with my first, surprise, publication. As a college student, I’d written a letter to The New York Times, and one day, having momentarily forgotten I’d written it, I was reading the letters column in the Times, read one with which I agreed, and then saw the byline was my own name. It was a very gratifying experience.

Letter to the Editor, New York Post (August 31, 2022)

“Readers sound off on Kevin McCarthy, the FBI and Golden Gloves boxing” (letter) New York Daily News (August 12, 2022)

“Dems don’t fight — unless it’s with each other” (letter) New York Daily News (January 21, 2022)

“Mourning a Mensa Friend” (presented as a letter) Mensa Bulletin (January 2022): reprinted from my blog here

“On the Grid” (letter) New York Daily News (December 10, 2020)

“Isaac Asimov: Remembering the Literary Icon I Worked With” (and several sidebars), Mensa Bulletin (November/December 2019)

“Bomber suspect ‘innocent until proven guilty’” (letter) Courier Life (April 26, 2013)

“Weiner’s Cooked” (letter) Courier Life (April 19, 2013)

“Listen up, electeds, and do your job” (letter) Courier Life’s Brooklyn Daily (December 9, 2012)

“Ian Randal Strock has a message for politicians” Courier Life (December 6, 2012)

“Guest Reference Library” Analog Science Fiction and Fact (January/February 2009)

“The Way the Future Was… and Can Be” Tangent #14 (Spring 1996)

Artemis Magazine editorials:

• “What Has Gone Before, and What Will Come After”
• “The Progress That Lies Beneath”
• “Cause and Effects”
• “Was the Man in the Moon Smiling on Alpha?”
• “Deorbit Not, Launch Not”
• “Navies and Coast Guards and Martians, oh my!”
• “Dystopias Go Home!”
• “Introducing Artemis Magazine”

Op-Ed column “Possibilities” in The Daily Free Press:

• “Learning to think”
• “Speaking in tongues”
• “GO! now or take ACTION, but do something”
• “Slating and debating empty names”
• “Speaking with the voice you paid for”
• “Stepping back and facing the crowd”
• “Solving the world’s problems”
• “Speaking out to fulfill the Student Union’s potential”

Letters to the editor published in: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Astronomy, The Bulletin of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Card Player, The Christian Science Monitor, The Daily Free Press, Direct: The Magazine of Direct Marketing Management, Games, Internet World, Locus, Mensa Bulletin, The New York Times, The New York Daily News, Numismatic News, Science News, and WebWeek.