“[One of] 15 people who have shaped the global conversation about science in 2005.”
— Seed Magazine (December 2005 / January 2006 issue)

“Mathematics professor Jonathan Farley has a hell of a resume... ”
— Barrett Brown, Hot, Fat, and Clouded: The Amazing and Amusing Failures of America's Chattering Class (Cambridge House Press, New York City, 2010)

“Super neat guy. ”
— Darlene Cavalier
         (former professional NBA cheerleader)

• Profiles and interviews of Jonathan Farley
      Magazines | Newspapers and Selected Online Articles | Books
      Movies | Television | Radio | Podcasts

• Articles by Jonathan Farley
      Magazines | Newspapers and Selected Online Articles | Books

Profiles and interviews of Jonathan Farley

MAGAZINES

October 4, 2018
Chalkdust Magazine
“ Black Mathematician Month 2018”
ChalkdustMagazine used my photo (middle right) and mentioned my name in their "Black Mathematician Month 2018" piece.

December 2017
Front Vision Magazine (China)
少年时数学在西方
"二战时期的统计学"
The Chinese magazine Front Vision cited me.
  »   cover | entire magazine | first page of article(page 32 of the magazine and page 35 of the pdf file) | English translation

July/August 2016
GEDO Report Magazine
The founder and CEO of the magazine GEDO Report writes of me: "I would like to thank my two biggest heroes, aka living legends, Dr. Walter Cooper, and the equally impressive Dr. Jonathan Farley, a world-famous mathematician from my hometown who uses math for Hollywood films and to fight terrorism.
 »  cover | acknowledgments

June 2015
Freedom Magazine
“ Baltimore's Dilemma”
The quote the reporter attributes to me surprised me. Needless to say, don't believe everything you read.

June 18, 2013
Fast Company Magazine
“Other Weird Things You Can Learn From Phone Metadata”

February 6, 2013
Vice Magazine
“How Silicon Valley Could Save (or Delete) Education”

August/September 2011
PE Magazine
“Screen Play: Can engineering score by landing a bigger role in movies and on TV?”
 »  article

July 17, 2010
Science News
“Safety in Numbers”
 »  cover, editorial, and article

February 2010
为好莱坞穿上实验大褂的人 Magazine
“Hollywood Is Dressed Lab Coats”
 »  article | English translation

April 2009
Campus News Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
“Renommierter Wissenschafter an der JKU”
 »  article

Spring 2009
Oxford American Magazine
“A Finished Revolution? Barack Obama as the Fulfillment of Reconstruction”
 »  cover | article

September 2008
Black Enterprise Magazine
“Putting the Science in Fiction: Jonathan Farley Takes Math to Hollywood”
  »   cover | table of contents | article | all

March 2008
Brookline Magazine
“Artist in Residence: Marlena Bocian”

January 10, 2008
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
“Catching Up with the Class of 2002”

November 2007
Notices of the American Mathematical Society
“Flatland: The Movie”

October/November 2007
Symmetry Magazine
“The Wrong Stuff: When bad physics pop up in a movie or TV show, scientists try to set things right”
   »    article

August 6, 2007
Newsweek Magazine (Russia)
“Hollywood Scientific Films”
  »   article | English translation

May/June 2006
The Crisis Magazine
 “The Visionaries”
  »   cover | editorial | article | page one | page two | page three

May/June 2006
FOCUS
“Complex NUMB3RS?”

April 19, 2006
Operations Research and Management Science Today
“Does 1+1=Terror? Using Math Models to Calculate Risks”

January 2006
Reader’s Digest (Canada)
“Fact-Finding Mission”

December 2005 / January 2006
Seed Magazine
“Year in Science: Icons”
  » cover | introduction |article

May/June 2005
Air Jamaica Sky Writings In-Flight Magazine (Jamaica)
“Checking in with Christopher John Farley” (brief mention)
  » cover | page one | page two

Summer 2005
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
“Harvard’s Summa Cum Laude Mathematician Proposes to Use Lattice Theory to Help Win the War on Terrorism”

March 2, 2005
Technology Review
“Counterterrorism by Numbers”

October 2-8, 2004
The Economist Magazine
“Circles of Friends: What Math Tells Us about Us”
  »   cover | article page one | article page two

July 19, 2004
Jet Magazine
“Scientist of the Year”
  »   cover | article

March/April 2002
Harvard Magazine
“Finding Work That Works for You”
  (profile of six Harvard alumni, including Jonathan Farley and CNN presenter Soledad O’Brien)

January 3, 2002
Black Issues in Higher Education
“A Calculating Career”

June/July 2001
Upscale Magazine
“Math Genius Receives Fulbright Award”
  »   cover | table of contents | article

January 2001
Ebony Magazine
“30 Leaders of the Future”
  »   cover | article

Winter 1998/1999
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
“You Can Count on One Hand All the Black Mathematics Professors at the Highest-Ranking American Universities”

March 13, 1989
Jet Magazine
“People”
» cover | article

January 16, 2020
Los Angeles Sentinel
“Many Say #MeToo is Bigger than Harvey Weinstein, Trial Outcome Doesn't Matter”

August 6, 2019
Upjourney.com
“Why Do People Get Married, According to 13 Experts”

July 15, 2019
The Louisiana Weekly  The New Pittsburgh Courier
“Being Black and Republican in the era of Trump presents real challenges”

2019
AngelJackets.com
“20+ Places to Visit in Austria That Will Actually Make Your Life Better”

2019
PrettyProgressive.com
“14 Inspiring Books That Single Women Enjoy Reading”
  My suggestion was book #3 on his list, a book by Susan Patton.

May 20, 2019
Vnexpress.net
“Giáo sư toán học gặp xui khi tìm bạnđời theo 'xác suất thống kê”
  This Vietnamese website, which has over 3 million followers on Facebook, ran an article on me.

May 15, 2019
Forum Daily
“Профессор из Мэриленда стал жертвой брачной аферы девушки с русского сайта знакомств”
  The website Forum Daily ran an article on me. It has about 76,000 followers on Facebook.

April 21, 2019
kmwade.scienceblog.com
“Genius uses maths to beat terrorism”   In her article, Dr. Kelly Wade writes, "Dr Farley is a truly amazing and inspiring mathematician."

April 16, 2019
BlackPressUSA.com
“20+ Places to Visit in Austria That Will Actually Make Your Life Better”

January 13, 2019
Fupping.com
“8 Captivating Time Travel Science Fiction Books That Will Warp Your Mind”

October 1, 2018
BlackPressUSA.com
“Legal Experts: Cosby Should Prevail on Appeal”

September 18, 2018
BlackPressUSA.com
“3 Sci-Fi Books That Will Make You Question The Society We Live In”

July 28, 2018
Fupping.com
“8 Mind Blowing Reasons You Should Visit India This Year”

July 26, 2018
The Washington Informer
“Lawyers Blast Cosby Conviction: 'Backwoods Justice'”

June 28, 2018
Our Weekly (Los Angeles)
“Trump pardons miss mark among African American voters”

April 2, 2018
Best Company
“The Heartbreak of Spousal Identity Theft”

December 25, 2016
Hindustan Times
“New-age tools to fight terror: Mathematical models and science of probability”

November 15, 2016
Express (United Kingdom)
“A BEAUTIFUL MIND: Maths genius develops EQUATION for wiping out ISIS”

July 18, 2016
GoodCall.com
“Modern Math Education Doesn't Add Up for Today's Students, New Book Says”
   Some words were put in quotation marks and attributed to me in this article about math education. I am not certain if I was quoted accurately.

April 16, 2016
Fatwallet.com
“Why Your Kids Need Gender Neutral Toys”
   I take a dissenting view.

April 14, 2016
NGDATA.com
“30 Experts Reveal the Biggest Ways that Data Mining Improves Customer Experience”

March 29, 2016
Goodcall.com
“HBCUs Take Different Approaches to STEM Partnerships”

November 28, 2014
Democrat and Chronicle newspaper (Rochester, New York)
“Local mathematicians advise Hollywood”

July 21, 2014
Al Jazeera
“Southern schools reckon with unsavory remnants of the past”

May 9, 2014
Fox Business
“How to Pay for College When Scholarships Aren't Enough”

February 14, 2014
Eve of Reduction
“25 Expert Tips for Saving Money on International Travel”

February 6, 2014
Nerdwallet
“Should Student Athletes Be Paid?”

2014
LA Weekly (Los Angeles, California)
“Scholarship School”

October 14, 2013
Watchdog.org
“Lonegan-Booker: If blacks stay away from New Jersey polls, could the Republican win?”

january 23, 2013
Guardian newspaper (Great Britain)
“Django Unchained: a surprise hit with America's pro-gun lobby”

january 22, 2013
The Hollywood Reporter
“After 'Gun Appreciation Day,' Organizers Invoke 'Django Unchained' for Follow-Up Campaign”

December 6, 2012
SciLog (an official blog of the Journal Nature
“As American as Glasnost 2”

May 25, 2012
Greenburgh Daily Voice newspaper
“Harvard Math Duo to Give Seminar in Greenburgh”

March 14, 2012
The Daily Greenburgh newspaper
“Math Initiative Gives Greenburgh Students Day Off”

February 18, 2011
Press release from New York State Assembly Minority Leader [i.e., Republican Party Leader] Brian M. Kolb
“February Is 'Black History Month' - Celebrate The Achievements Of Great African Americans!”
  In 2011, the New York State Assembly Minority Leader (this means he is a Republican) mentioned my name in a press release. (He does not represent the district I am from.)

February 5, 2011
Lewiston Sun-Journal newspaper (Lewiston, Maine)
“Weird, Wicked Weird: Mathematician Finds Formula for Long-Lasting Love”
» original photo from article |

January 16, 2011
The Jamaica Observer newspaper (Jamaica)
“The limitations of agriculture”

December 27, 2010
The Guardian newspaper (Great Britain)
“Neoconfederate Civil War Revisionism”

November 23, 2010
Scienceline
“The Science of the Big Bang Theory: How writers of the popular sitcom get their physics right”

November 3, 2010
The Washington Post
“Hold off on the action figures: Quirky SC Dem lost” (photo and photo caption only)
»   photo

November 3, 2010
Oberösterreichische Nachrichten (Austria)
“Mit neuem Kongress beginnt auch Barack Obamas zweite Halbzeit”

October 30, 2010
Wiener Zeitung (Austria)
“In den USA war ich ein Ziel von Terroristen”
»   article | English summary | front page of newspaper and section | English Translation

October 5, 2010
ABC News
“Greene Calls on SC Democrats’ Chief to Resign”

August 4-10, 2010
Free Times (Columbia, South Carolina)
“Warren Group Back on Alvin Greene's Campaign; Says the Circus Is Over”

July 29, 2010
Los Angeles Times
“A Man Way, Way outside Beltway”

July 12, 2010
Huffington Post
“How Satisfied Are The Nation’s Professors?” (photo only)

April 25, 2010
Bridges: The Office of Science and Technology's Publication on Science and Technology Policy (Austrian Embassy in the United States)
“Austrian Fashion Designer Says Girls Have Both the Genes and the Jeans for Mathematics”

February 22, 2010
Maine Campus newspaper
“Guest lecturer outlines how to get straight A’s”

February 2010
Tips (Upper Austria)
“Höhere Mathematik am Modesektor”
»   pdf | English translation

November 27, 2007
MSNBC.com
“How to Build the Perfect Terrorist Cell: Researchers diagram organizations that avoid crumbling when attacked”

November 8, 2007
The Chronicle of Higher Education
“James Watson and America's Tolerance of Intolerance”
 »   This November 2007 article from The Chronicle of Higher Education quotes me; but after Nobel laureate James Watson and his wife invited a colleague and me to lunch and then to their apartment, I became a supporter (until I saw the American Masters documentary).

May 13, 2007
The Jamaica Observer newspaper (Jamaica)
“How did Pihl & Son get the Yallahs bridge contract?”

April 15, 2007
The Jamaica Observer newspaper (Jamaica)
“UWI Mona and Math Department mired in backwardness”
»   pdf

2007
The Jamaica Observer newspaper (Jamaica)
“Fighting Crime One Sum at a Time”

January 31, 2007
Jamaica Gleaner newspaper (Jamaica)
“The Numb3rs Man: UWI Professor Plies His Subject in Hollywood and Counterterrorism”

December 3-9, 2006
Sunday Herald newspaper (Jamaica)
“Unsolved Problem: UWI Mathematics Department Sinks Further into Quagmire”
  »   partial text with pictures | full text without pictures

October 17, 2006
Democrat and Chronicle newspaper (Rochester, New York)
“RIT’s Math Program Creating Institute to Help Fight Terrorism”

May 12, 2006
Times Higher Education Supplement
“Weapons of Maths Instruction in War on Terror”

April 18, 2006
The Guardian newspaper (Great Britain)
“Putting the Science into Fiction”

December 12, 2005
El Paso Timesnewspaper (El Paso, Texas)
“Researcher says math can protect border”
  »   front page | first page top | first page middle
  »   first page bottom | second page

May 18, 2005
The Daily Telegraph newspaper (Great Britain)
“Scientist’s Formula to Rid Hollywood of Mad Professors and Sci-Fi Errors”
  »   page one | download image

May 17, 2005
Boston Globe newspaper
“Divide and Conquer”
  »   pdf

May 13, 2005
Times Higher Education Supplement
“On Her Majesty’s Scientific Service”
  »   pdf

May 1, 2005
Associated Press
“Harvard Professor Offers Services As Hollywood Mathematician”
  »   page one | page two | Other North American Newspaper Coverage

April 6, 2005
MIT Tech Talk
“Math Whiz Fights Terror with Smarts”
»   pdf

October 10, 2004 The Times of India (India)

“Mathematicians join war on terror”

October 9, 2004
USA Today
“Mathematicians Offer Help in the War on Terror”

April 18, 2004
Jamaica Gleaner newspaper (Jamaica)
“Science Whiz with J’can Links Turns Heads in US”

January 10, 2004
Science News Online
“Splitting Terrorist Cells”

December 5, 2003
The Chronicle of Higher Education
“A Mathematical Method for Assessing Whether a Terrorist Cell Has Been Broken”

January 17, 2003
The Tennessean newspaper
“Dorm name change led to threats to VU: Caller vows to cut out Gee’s heart, school reports”

December 2002
Council of Conservative Citizens editorial
“Vanderbilt Math Teacher Spews Vitriol Over Confederacy”

December 11, 2002
The Nation
“Trent Lott’s ‘Uptown Klan’” (third paragraph from the end)

December 1, 2002
The Tennessean newspaper
“VU Prof’s Essay Sparks ‘Confederate’ Backlash’” (caveat: taken from a neo-Confederate site)

October 24, 2002
Green Party of the United States
“Greens Rally Behind Vanderbilt University's Plan to Rename ‘Confederate’ Dorm”

January 2002
The California Tech
“Farley Speaks at Caltech”

December 3, 2001
Oxford Mail newspaper (Oxford, England)
“Rally calls for peace”

November 19, 2001
Wall Street Journal “Opinion Journal”
“Stupidity Watch”

September 13-19, 2001
Nashville Scene
“A Green Candidate: A Vanderbilt Math Genius Launches a Political Race— Then Leaves the Country”

August 22-28, 2001
The Village Voice
“Find the Issues, Reach the People: The Building of a Blacker Green Party”

August 16, 2001
Roll Call newspaper
“A Green House? Party Will Back, But Not Recruit, Candidates in Congressional Races”

August 9, 2001
The Tennessean newspaper
“VU Professor Plans to Run against Clement As Green Candidate”

March 26, 2001
Vanderbilt Register newspaper
“Mathematician receives Fulbright Scholar Award”

August 25, 2000
Indianapolis Recorder newspaper (Indianapolis, Indiana)
“BlackPressUSA.com big hit for African-American media”
My name is mentioned in the fifth column of the page of the newspaper.

December 1998 — January 1999
The Prism
“Young Black Achievers”

June 17, 1991
Boston Globe newspaper
“Here’s a Toast to Harvard’s No. 2”
  »   page one | page two

March 1989
Democrat and Chronicle newspaper (Rochester, New York)
“Harvard honors Brockport man”
  »   aerticle | front page

 

December 18, 2019
ABC Television (national show) - Tamron Hall
Topic: "Romance Scams", Other recent guests of Tamron Hall include Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg, and Dionne Warwick.
 »  entire show (see 34:51-41:52)
 »  my segment on Facebook
 »  my segment on the Tamron Hall site

May May 13, 2019
ABC Television (Baltimore, Maryland)
Topic: "Local professor says he lost $50,000 after being deceived by a Russian mail order bride", a television interview of me by investigative reporter Mallory Sofastaii.

May 2018
ABC Television (Philadelphia)
Topic: "This Is America", I was interviewed by Philadelphia television news reporter Nydia Han for her May 2018 documentary, This Is America, a follow-up to a video she made that was viewed 2.3 million times. You can see me in Part I from 4:58 to 5:10 and from 7:48 to 7:50. You can see me in Part II from 1:12 to 1:13, from 2:24 to 2:45, from 2:55 to 4:23, and from 8:44 to 8:46.
 »  part I (4:58-5:10 and 7:48-7:50)
 »  part II (1:12-1:13, 2:24-2:45, 2:55-4:23, and 8:44-8:46)

January 29, 2018
theZoomer: Television for Boomers (Canada)
Topic: "Cyber Fraud", I was also a guest on the Canadian television show, theZoomer, to talk about romance scams. One of the guests was introduced as the head of cybersecurity for IBM (presumably, for Canada).
 »   interview

December 5, 2015; July 8,2015; February 5, 2015
CBS television station (Rochester, New York)
Topic: "Extraordinary People: Hollywood Math and Science",

October 5, 2015
CBS Baltimore
Topic: "Baltimore Professor Working To Make Higher Mathematics Accessible To All" (online article, not a television interview)

October 5, 2015
CBS Baltimore
Topic: "Associate Professor In Baltimore Uses Mathematics To Counter Terrorism" (online article, not a television interview)

February 28, 2012
WHEC Television (Rochester, New York)
Topic: "Celebrating Black History Month" I was profiled in a Black History Month segment on one of the main television stations in Rochester, New York in 2012, 2011, and 2010.
 »   video (from February 2012)

May 3, 2011
BBC World News Television - BBC World Have Your Say
Topic: "Osama bin Laden is dead" (beginning at 20:35 and running until 23:37) BBC World Television invited me to join a discussionabout the death of Osama bin Laden. Two of the other guests were U.S. Congressman Silvestre Reyes and British Member of Parliament Khalid Mahmood.
 »   video (from May 2011)

November 3, 2010
CNN
(Topic: “Greene: ‘DeMint Failed the Country’“; in the background only, at the beginning and around 1:40)
 »   video (flv format)

November 3, 2010
Comedy Central
(Topic: "Election Night in Alvin Greene's HQ"; in the background only, at 0:14 and 0:28)

Black History Month profile by Janet Lomax (WHEC-TV, Rochester, New York)
Please see the February 28, 2012 entry for the video.

June 2005
Greater Boston with Emily Rooney
 »   “Dot Vader” (windows media format)

June 2, 2005
Nitebeat
(Comcast CN8, with Emmy Award-winning host Barry Nolan, reaching 6.2 million homes from Maine to Maryland)
 »   interview (windows media format)

February, 2005
Black History Month Teleconference (South Carolina Public Television)
(panel discussion with the head of the U.S. Army’s Fort Jackson)

February 4, 2005
San Diego television
 »   Numb3rs interview (windows media format)

October 9, 2004
Fox News Television
 »   Download(mpg file)

October 8, 2004
C-SPAN (I am not an invited guest; I am merely an audience member who asks a question)
(Topic: “Empire-Building: Domestic and International Consequences“; in the background only, at the beginning and around 1:40)
 »   video (I am seen at 1:02:26 and I ask Noam Chomsky a question from 1:03:35 to 1:04:21)

December 4, 2002
Fox News Television with Brit Hume

September 11, 2002
BBC World News Television
(invited guest, interviewed live from Ground Zero in New York City)

Late 1990s
Dr. James Haney Presents: "The Story of the Black Panther Party"  »  
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

 

April 17, 2019
The Baltimore Sun newspaper (Baltimore, Maryland)
“Julian Assange Is a Hero”

February 17, 2019
Fupping.com
“13 Best Books About Writing | Books Writers Should Read”

November 21, 2018
American Greatness
“#MenToo: Defending Dartmouth's Todd Heatherton”

October 9, 2018
American Greatness
“Lock Up Your Sons”

July 29, 2018
Democrat and Chronicle newspaper (Rochester, New York)
“Feminists need to make up their minds”
»   essay | front page

July 9, 2018
The Baltimore Sun newspaper (Baltimore, Maryland)
“Alvin Greene: the original socialist Democrat”

May 30, 2017
The Baltimore Sun newspaper (Baltimore, Maryland)
“Time to destroy the Confederacy once and for all”

March 6, 2017
The Baltimore Sun newspaper (Baltimore, Maryland)
“Lift Ev'ry DeVos and Sing”

November 22, 2016
The Baltimore Sun newspaper (Baltimore, Maryland)
“Urban Schools Will Fail If Disruptive Students Remain”

October 11, 2016
The Baltimore Sun newspaper (Baltimore, Maryland)
“The Black Panthers and the social gospel”

February 9, 2016
The Baltimore Sun newspaper (Baltimore, Maryland)
“Using math to solve murder”

June 23, 2015
The Baltimore Sun newspaper (Baltimore, Maryland)
“Tim Hunt's Witch Hunt”

October 23, 2014
The Berkeley Daily Planet newspaper (Berkeley, California)
“Solving for XX” My article features exclusive quotes from Danica McKellar that she provided just for my essay.

September 26, 2014
The Baltimore Sun newspaper
“ Do the math: rape stats don't add up” with Susan Patton(My co-author,Susan Patton, a.k.a. "The Princeton Mom," has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, andTheDaily Show.)

July 22, 2014
The Baltimore Sun newspaper
“#SendThemBack”

March 14, 2014
The Berkeley Daily Planet newspaper (Berkeley, California)
“Where Are the Tourists from the Future?”

April 29, 2013
Morning Star newspaper (Great Britain)
“Guilty till you're proven innocent”
»   article | front page

January 3, 2013
The Berkeley Daily Planet (Berkeley, California)
“ Math and Race: Why Don't More African-Americans Do Science and Engineering?”

December 31, 2012
Bangor Daily News (Bangor, Maine)
“ Why we need civilian patrols and scientific policing”

November 8,2012
Berkeley Daily Planet newspaper
“Mathematics, Marriage, and High Explosives: Why There Is No Nobel Prize for Math”

June 29, 2012
The Berkeley Daily Planet
“The True Turing Test to Save Education in America”(with Ronald O. Ross and Gregory Labonte)

June 27, 2012
Bangor Daily News (Bangor, Maine)
“ Mayoral math and the battle for Baxter Academy

April 12, 2012
Portland Press Herald newspaper (Portland, Maine)
“Black mathematicians: the kind of problems they wish didn't need solving"”

February 18, 2012
The Portland Press Herald
“Coach's resignation more questionable than photo that led to flap"”
Corrigendum: the "19-year-old seemingly passed out on my shoulder in a club" may have been 20; I think it was her birthday.

October 14, 2011
Morning Star newspaper (Great Britain)
“The death of Chomsky and the murder of a president-how the British left can save the US media”
»   article | front page

October 13, 2011
Morning Star newspaper (Great Britain)
“The death of Chomsky and the murder of a president - how the British left can save the US media”

May 14, 2011
The Guardian newspaper (Great Britain) on-line
“Common gets a bad rap on Assata Shakur”

April 1, 2011
The Guardian newspaper (Great Britain) on-line
“Confessions of a minion of the military-industrial complex”

January 8, 2011
The Guardian newspaper (Great Britain) on-line
“A dialogue concerning advocacy and criminality”

December 23, 2010
The Guardian newspaper (Great Britain) on-line
“The US embassy cables enigma”

December 5, 2010
The Guardian newspaper (Great Britain) on-line
“Sexing up mathematics does not compute”

November 10, 2010
The State newspaper (South Carolina)
“Abandoning Greene Hurt Democrats” (with Donna Warren; also see The Guardian for November 3, 2010)
»   article

November 3, 2010
The Guardian newspaper (Great Britain) on-line
“Alvin Greene, defeated by fellow Democrats”

December 5-6, 2009
Morning Star newspaper (Great Britain)
“The Panther and the Politician”
My name is on the masthead.
»   article | front page | masthead

August 24, 2009
Morning Star newspaper (Great Britain)
“Gunning for Obama”
»   article | front page

May 17, 2009
The Harvard Crimson newspaper (Harvard University)
“Anti-War Hero”

April 2009
Bridges: The Office of Science and Technology’s Publication on Science and Technology Policy
(Austrian Embassy in the United States)
“Dorkbot: Doing ‘Strange Things with Electricity’ from New York to Linz”

February 27, 2009
Morning Star newspaper (Great Britain)
“Spearing Satan’s Mistress”
»   article | front page

February 13, 2009
The Tech newspaper (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Who Won the Civil War?”

January 28, 2009
The Harvard Crimson newspaper (Harvard University)
“The New Black Politics”

January 20, 2009
The Guardian newspaper (Great Britain)
“My Fellow Americans: What Would You Like to Sneak into Obama’s Inauguration Speech Today?”

October 28, 2008
The Guardian newspaper (Great Britain) on-line
“Words As Weapons”

September 26, 2008
Sacramento Bee newspaper
“My View: What’s So Wasteful about Funding Discovery?”

July 17, 2008
Democrat and Chronicle newspaper (Rochester, New York)
“Obama’s Shifts Could Prove Costly”
 »   article

June 30, 2008
New York Times
“Bee by Bee”

May 14, 2008
Democrat and Chronicle newspaper (Rochester, New York)
“Fix Rochester Schools ‘outside the Box’”
 »   article

April 4, 2008
The Guardian newspaper (Great Britain) on-line
“Preventing the Rise of a ‘Messiah’”

March 17, 2008
The Guardian newspaper (Great Britain) on-line
“Wright Was Right”

February 23, 2008
Weekend Times (Singapore)
“I Have a Nightmare”

January 17, 2008
The Guardian newspaper (Great Britain)
“I Have a Nightmare”

November 7, 2007
The Guardian newspaper (Great Britain) on-line
“DNA of the KKK”

November 10, 2006
The Berkeley Daily Planet newspaper
“Commentary: Bias against Minorities in Math and Science Continues”

July 9, 2006
San Francisco Chronicle newspaper
“The NSA is Tap, Tap, Tapping: Spy Agency Misses the Big Picture As It Targets All the Dots”

June 2006
Bridges: The Office of Science and Technology’s Publication on Science and Technology Policy
(Austrian Embassy in the United States)
“Kurt Gödel: What Is Truth? The Strange Story of the Man Who Walked with Einstein”

May 16, 2006
New York Times
“The N.S.A.’s Math Problem”
 »   cartoon

April 23, 2006
San Francisco Chronicle newspaper
“A Muslim to Be a Martin Luther King? What the American South Can Teach the Middle East”

Spring 2006
Oxford Mathematical Institute Newsletter (University of Oxford)
“Terror and Beauty”

March 12, 2006
San Francisco Chronicle newspaper
“Improving Math Ed— Bush Right about That: But Where Are the Teachers Coming from?”

January 8, 2006
San Francisco Chronicle newspaper
“The Torturer’s Dilemma: The Math on Fire with Fire”

September 20, 2005
Bridges: The Office of Science and Technology’s Publication on Science and Technology Policy
(Austrian Embassy in the United States)
“Terror and Beauty— The European Institute for Mathematical Methods in Counterterrorism”

August 22, 2005
Morning Star newspaper (Great Britain)
“It’s Your Turn Next”

July 21, 2005
Morning Star newspaper (Great Britain)
“Conspiracy Theories Chase the Carnage”
My name is on the masthead.
»   article | front page | masthead

December 11, 2004
Morning Star newspaper (Great Britain)
“Three Stories from the Mourning after: Exit Powell •
My name is on the masthead alongside British Member of Parliament George Galloway.
»   article | front page | masthead

October 30, 2004
Morning Star newspaper (Great Britain)
“I’m Voting Nader”

October 2, 2004
Morning Star newspaper (Great Britain)
“A Very US Coup”
My article is below that of George Galloway, a Member of Parliament in Great Britain.
»   article | front page

August 28, 2004
Morning Star newspaper (Great Britain)
“Why Kerry Can't Beat Bush in the United States Presidential Election: £100 Each Way”
 »   essay | part of the title of the essay
My column in the August 28, 2004 edition of the Morning Star newspaper (Great Britain), below a column by Tony Benn, former member of the British Prime Minister's Cabinet.

July 17, 2004
Morning Star newspaper (Great Britain)
“Christopher Hitchens, moral degeneracy and the United States 'digital brownshirts': You've got mail”
 »   essay | masthead
The Morning Star newspaper in Great Britain published a regular column of mine starting on July 17, 2004.

November 20, 2002
The Tennessean newspaper
“Remnants of the Confederacy Glorifying a Time of Tyranny”
»   pdf

February 27, 2002; January 29, 2002
National Newspaper Publishers Association (including Sacramento Observer, Michigan Chronicle)
“Black Power Still Gets Bad Rap”

February 18, 2002
The Guardian newspaper (Great Britain)
“We Mathematicians Seek a More Elusive Beauty”
  My name was on the masthead.

November 2, 2001
Indianapolis Recorder newspaper / Nashville City Paper
“Why They Hate Americans—in Great Britain”
(in response, Lewis Goldberg wrote a column advocating the murder of Jonathan Farley)

November 17, 2001
The Guardian newspaper (Great Britain)
“Where Next— Alabama?”

October 3, 2001
National Newspaper Publishers Association (including Sacramento Observer)
“The Next Casualty: The Bill of Rights”

September 25, 2001
Nashville City Paper
“Slavery and Segregation Still Need Reparations”

September 13, 2001
The Ashland City Times
“Thank Goodness Dominion Got Zapped by County”

August 23, 2001
Nashville City Paper
“Battle of Donelson: Give Greenway the Red Light”

July 2001
The Tennessean newspaper and Nashville City Paper
“County Failed to Look at Consequences of Plant”
“Corporations Usurp Democracy in 'Cheat 'em' County”
»   article

 

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