He is the author of Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity (Duke, 2005) and publishes on the cultures of permanent war; age studies; biopolitics, race, and globalization. His most recent writings include: “Global Society Must Be Defended: Biopolitics Without Boundaries,” Social Text 25.2 (Summer 2007); “Nation, Globe, Hegemony: The Transnational Turn in American Studies,” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies ??7.2 (Fall 2005); ”Globalization as Narrative: Three Critiques,” ??Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies 24.1-2 (Spring-Summer 2002); and ”Cold War American Culture as the Age of Three Worlds,” Minnesota Review 55-57 (2002).