Clippings & Appearances
Selected Clippings
GQ.com
How the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Became Every Guy's Favorite Historical Maritime Disaster
The New York Times
How Much More Chaotic Can This Flea Market Get?
GQ.com
Why Leftists Are Suddenly Lifting More Weights
GQ.com
ICE Agents Are Dressing for Anonymity—But the Clothes They Wear Still Tell Us Plenty
The New York Times
A Veteran Vintage Dealer Tries On Manhattan
The Baffler
War Stories: Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza take on the Iraq War
The New York Times
A No-Frills Irish Pub Draws a Martini Crowd
Ambrook Research
The New York Times
Oh, This Old, Tattered, Moth-Eaten Thing?
The New York Times
Honk if You Understand This Obscure Bumper Sticker
The Baffler
The New York Times
They’ve Made Hats for McCain and Trump. And Obama and Harris
The New York Times
How a Patriotic Painting Became the Internet’s Soapbox
The New York Times
Not Your Grandpa’s Military Surplus
The Baffler
Universal Failure: How UCP became an unpopular symbol of the Iraq War
New Lines Magazine
Americans Pay Large Sums for War Booty Left by Russia, Helping Ukraine in the Process
GQ.com
How Realtree Camouflage Became a Cool-Kid Essential
InsideHook
Coronavirus Is Killing Traditional Retail, But Vintage Shops Are Thriving
Monocle
Monocle
Monocle
Appearances
Articles of Interest
Season 7: Gear (frequent guest and season consultant)
Apocolypse Duds
Scouring Surplus with Charles McFarlane (podcast episode)
Heddels Podcast
Problematic Camouflage with Charles McFarlane (podcast episode)
Bloomberg Businessweek
A 163-Year Illustrated History of America’s Gorpcore Obsession (quoted expert)
New Lines Magazine
The Empire’s New Clothes (and Everyone Else’s Too) (quoted expert)
Gear Patrol
How "Tactical" Infiltrated Everyday Life (quoted expert)