Tom Bartlett

Senior Writer

Tom Bartlett is a senior writer covering social science, the humanities, and other topics. He has written recently about the curious rise of Jordan Peterson, the downfall of a prominent food researcher at Cornell, an anthropologist who studies ISIS in Iraq, and how Karl Ove Knausgaard joined the literary canon. Two packages of stories he co-wrote — on plagiarism and on diploma mills — were chosen as finalists for the National Magazine Award in reporting. He was twice a finalist for the Livingston Award, given to the best journalists in the country under 35. In 2012, his profile of Gene Weingarten won a CRMA feature-writing award.

His articles have appeared in Slate, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Politico, Texas Monthly, and other publications. Bartlett has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Baylor University and a Master of Fine Arts in writing from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow.