Nick Romeo

New Yorker Journalist

Author of The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy (PublicAffairs, 2024)

New Release

The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy (Jan 16, 2024)

Based on years of reporting for the New Yorker magazine, The Alternative will be published simultaneously by Basic Books in the UK and PublicAffairs in the U.S. on January 16th, 2024. Preorder here.

Appearances

SELECTED ARTICLES AND ESSAYS

Tracing the Rise and Fall of the American Dream The Washington Post

The island of Sifnos Fights Back against Overtourism The New Republic

The Hidden Archeologists of Athens The New Yorker

Cormac McCarthy's Work is Rooted in Science Scientific American

How to Spend Your City’s Money The New Yorker

Nicholas Humphrey’s Beautiful Theory of Mind The New Yorker

What Happens When Jobs Are Guaranteed? The New Yorker

How Mondragon Became the World’s Largest Co-Op The New Yorker

How Oslo Learned to Fight Climate Change The New Yorker

Can Companies Force Themselves to Do Good? The New Yorker

How Much Do Things Really Cost? The New Yorker

Is It Time for a New Economics Curriculum? The New Yorker

Should Gig Work Be Government-Run? The New Yorker

What Can America Learn from Europe About Regulating Big Tech? The New Yorker

Better Business Through Sci-Fi The New Yorker

Cormac McCarthy Explains the Unconscious The New Yorker

The Chatbot Will See You Now The New Yorker

The MIT Professor Defining What It Means to Live The New York Times

In Our Dreams, a Theater of the Unconscious The Washington Post

The Power of Rational Thinking in a World That Seems Unreasonable

The Washington Post

How The Richest Shield Themselves from Danger at Our Expense

The Washington Post

Meditation Can Make Us Happy, But Can It Also Make Us Good?

The Washington Post

How The Self-Serving Attitudes of the 9.9% Perpetuate Inequality

The Washington Post

The Origin and Nature of The Human Mind The Washington Post

Illuminating Slave Owners’ Crucial Role in the Expulsion of Native Americans The Washington Post

Ball Pits, Buskers, and Ninja Gardeners – The Business Conference as Circus The Washington Post Magazine

Plato's Anticipations of Behavioral Economics Aeon

The Enduring Power of the Body Politic Metaphor Aeon

Plato's Tumultuous Voyages to Sicily Aeon

Fair-Trade Comes to American Farms NPR

America's First Archaeological Suburb Slate

Master of the Games: George RR Martin Profile Rolling Stone

Cormac McCarthy at the Santa Fe Institute Newsweek

Kazuo Ishiguro Profile The Daily Beast

Aristophanes and the Necessity of the Middle Class The Daily Beast

The Purpose of Education The Atlantic

Technology and Education The Atlantic

Is Literature 'the Most Important Weapon of Propaganda'? The Atlantic

The Extraordinary Ancient Shipwrecks of the Eastern Aegean National Geographic

Ancient Device for Determining Taxes Discovered in Egypt National Geographic

About Nick

Nick Romeo covers policy and ideas for the New Yorker and teaches in the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, MIT Technology Review, and many other venues. He holds a BA from Northwestern and an MA in Ancient Greek from the University of Colorado, Boulder.