Taylor Beck is a teacher and writer based in Westport, Connecticut. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Scientific American, and other publications.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Cousins Like Us: Black Lives and John Maynard Keynes
Taylor Beck, a white writer, is discovered by his black cousin; they are both descended from the same slave owner....
Asylum, Again: Why We Need to Stop Punishing the Mentally Ill
As more and more prisons become warehouses for the mentally ill, is it time to go back to the asylum? Taylor Beck explores, via Alisa Roth's "Insane."...
Moody Genes
Taylor Beck reads Stephen P. Hinshaw's "Another Kind of Madness" through the lens of his own history with mental illness....
