In 2015, he received the Overseas Press Club of America's award for Best Commentary on International News for a series of articles in The New York Review of Books on the French response to the terrorist attacks of that year. Those articles became part of The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction, a study of how nostalgia has shaped modern politics, from Middle America to the Middle East.
In 2015, he was honored with the Overseas Press Club of America's Best Commentary award for articles in The New York Review of Books about France's response to terrorist attacks. These pieces were later published as part of The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction, exploring how nostalgia has shaped modern politics from Middle America to the Middle East.