Tadhg Larabee is a writer and editor based in Chicago, Illinois.

As an assistant editor at Jacobin, Tadhg commissions articles and writes unsigned content for the magazine’s print edition. Previously, he was an editorial assistant at Boston Review and an intern at Dissent.

In 2023, Tadhg graduated from Harvard University with an AB in history; his thesis on technology and the rural landscape in nineteenth-century Ireland won the Franklin and Eleanor Ford Prize and the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize. He is now a PhD student at the University of Chicago, where he researches environmental history, political economy, and the British Empire.

Tadhg also writes reviews, essays, and narrative nonfiction, for which he was named a finalist in health care reporting at the 2021 AAN Awards. You can read some of his work below.

The Baffler

Feature on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strike.

Dissent

Feature on the First Red Scare and Stop Cop City.

Essay on The Gospel of Church by Janine Giordano Drake.

Essay on The Commune by Marios Chakkas.

Interview with an indicted Stop Cop City activist.

Interview with a Minnesota Nurses Association organizer.

Reviews of Helen DeWitt, Hiroko Oyamada, and Susie Boyt.

Jacobin

Boston Review

Essay on Spadework for a Palace by László Krasznahorkai.

Harvard Review

Essay on The Problem of the Many by Timothy Donnelly.

DigBoston

Feature on open-source COVID vaccine development.

If you’d like to commission writing, editing, or fact-checking from Tadhg, you can reach him at tadhg.g.larabee [at] gmail [dot] com.