thai loyd
I'm a writer and organizer from Minnesota. I recently graduated from Columbia College, where I studied political science.My work has appeared in The Nation, Columbia Quarto Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. My research focuses on American reactionary politics and multiracial movements within the New Left of the 1960s and 70s.Let's get in touch! You can reach me by email at thai.loyd[at]columbia[dot]com or on LinkedIn.
reporting
Featured: Student Journalism's Momentous Year, The Nation, December 2025
The Maine Lawsuit That Could Save Democracy From Big Money, The Nation, December 2025
commentary
Minnesota once led on campaign finance. We can do so again, Minnesota Reformer, September 2025
How the Truman Scholarship Became the Right's Latest Battleground, The Nation, July 2025
theory
The Righteous Fists of Harmony: I Wor Kuen and Nonviolence as Revolutionary Practice, forthcoming in Michigan Journal of Political Science
The Discontents of Justice: The Third World Liberation Front at San Francisco State College as Theory in Practice, Senior Thesis in Political Science