My book -- and all the other wonderful titles from @pennpress.bsky.social -- are 40% off for the next couple weeks. A screaming deal!! Just use the promo code PENN-SUMMER26. 📚😎💸

Now on @thisguysucked.com: It’s yuppie time with @dygottlieb.bsky.social! You can tell us how much this doesn’t apply to you as you jog past us.

Arnold Hirsch's work was foundational for me and every other urban historian of recent generations. Deeply moving essay from his son. slate.com/life/2026/05...

Hey look, it's @dygottlieb.bsky.social in the @bostonglobe.com, interviewed about college, finance, inequality, and how it's all yuppies' fault! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/07/a...

Check out @dygottlieb.bsky.social's awesome essay in the NYT today, then go buy the book! He manages to connect banking deregulation to marathons, sushi, arson, and everything in between. A tour de force!! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/o...

First time, long time -- a treat to join @doughenwood.bsky.social on Behind the News.

"An essential resource for numerous disciplines. . . . This excellent book belongs in every college library." - @choicereviews.bsky.social on @m-r-glass.bsky.social's CRACKED FOUNDATIONS

On my way to Philly right now. Excited to see my book poster IRL! 😍

I know our names basically sound the same, but I could never have imagined this. Born in Flames has won the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Award in Nonfiction. I don’t think I’ve ever felt more honored. Til housing stability is not a luxury. @wwnorton.com

Mark your calendars: on May 12, @quinnslobodian.com and I go deep on yuppies at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social www.harvard.com/event/dylan-...

I have finally secured physical copies for all four of the first books my former students put out this year so you people are going to hear about them again.

Great conversation between @m-r-glass.bsky.social and @ryanreft.bsky.social about Mike's amazing new book CRACKED FOUNDATIONS.

It was fun chatting about my @pennpress.bsky.social book with @ryanreft.bsky.social for the @urbanhistorya.bsky.social blog. We talked about everything from Leave It To Beaver to critical race theory and Trump's crazy proposal for 50-year mortgages. Great conversation!

Thrilled to see my terrific colleague @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social won the Bancroft. So well deserved. Check out the book here: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Unbelievable Tracy Chapman show just preserved by the Aadam Jacobs Collection project.

“Gangster imperialism” seems apt. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

In case you missed it, @m-r-glass.bsky.social answered questions about his book CRACKED FOUNDATIONS in an AMA on the @askhistorians.bsky.social subreddit yesterday! Read through the thread to learn more about how the suburban American Dream was unstable from the beginning https://bit.ly/4aNj2o0

This has been fun! Come check out the chatter about the suburbs!

This afternoon! Would love to see you there. 😉

I'm looking forward to this Zoom book event next week with @marksouther.bsky.social and @benchansfield.bsky.social. Would love to see some of you there! Registration link here: princeton.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Another excerpt of my @pennpress.bsky.social book was published today in the magazine FINANCIAL HISTORY. In this part I try to expand the redlining story to include the full range of unconventional and predatory mortgage lending. Freely available here: fhmagazine.org/8HEd/p18/p18.

Thanks for listening!!

I wrote about a conference marking the culmination of tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic spending to transcend neoliberalism. lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...

Look what just showed up @m-r-glass.bsky.social !

Key to many of Mamdani’s proposals is immediacy: While new development can take years to happen and even longer to alter market dynamics, programs like a rent freeze for rent-stabilized tenants, or even property tax reform, can be felt as soon as passed. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

LISTEN: @m-r-glass.bsky.social discusses his new book CRACKED FOUNDATIONS, which reveals how debt financing "left midcentury suburbs unstable, unequal, and racially segregated," in an interview on the Who Makes Cents podcast! apple.co/48Rv7qa

Mike’s book, as that interview shows, will change a lot of what you think you know about postwar suburbs. www.pennpress.org/978151282822...

New interview! Andrew Anastasi and I discuss the emotional logic of insurance and how racial capitalism is being misconstrued in the present -- as made manifest in some reviews of my book. Grateful for this partnership between @hpe-project.bsky.social and @lpeblog.bsky.social!

Thanks, @kevinmkruse.bsky.social! And @dygottlieb.bsky.social for the conversation on Who Makes Cents. It was lots of fun to chat about the 'burbs!!!

Thanks @kevinmkruse.bsky.social! My enthusiasm was no put-on--the book is just that fantastic and field-shifting. Congrats, @m-r-glass.bsky.social

Really enjoyed doing this interview with highlights from my @pennpress.bsky.social book. Come for the frailties of the postwar "suburban dream," stay for my critique of "abundance." 😉

40% off!!!

Monday night!

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

In disbelief. The NYT named Born in Flames one of 100 Notable Books of 2025

Getting closer to this online book event with the Gotham Center on 12/1! Registration here: www.eventbrite.com/e/cracked-fo...

My guy Pedro Regalado quoted in this @nytimes.com piece on bodegas, the treasure of every NYC neighborhood. Keep an eye out for his book next year!! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/n...

Excited to see more coverage of US municipal finance

“Deporting immigrants to make room for “real” Americans is therefore both about a belief that only certain types of people can be American in the first place and a demand that these authentic Americans be provided an array of nostalgic comforts through government largess.”

Excellent analysis of the fiscal challenges -- and opportunities -- awaiting Mamdani. jacobin.com/2025/11/mamd...

I so appreciate this review of my book from @michaelwaters.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com about the "secret American pastime" of municipal bonds. Check it out! www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

American cities and towns regularly turn to private investors to raise funds for schools and basic infrastructure and on the private bond market, the rich ones win and the poor inevitably lose wrote about the long arc of municipal debt for @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

Thrilled to see my former student @m-r-glass.bsky.social's brilliant first book reviewed in @theatlantic.com.

An excerpt of my @pennpress.bsky.social book -- on school bonds in Levittown -- was just published in FINANCIAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. 🤑 Freely available here: fhmagazine.org/tRDd/p18/p18.

Next month (12/1) I'm doing an online book event with the Gotham Center, where I'll be in conversation with Susie Pak. Please join us for a discussion about "The Precarious Wealth of Postwar Long Island." Registration link here: www.eventbrite.com/e/cracked-fo...

Speaking of @schooldaves.bsky.social, I'm so excited about his book that I accidentally bought myself two copies! 🤦‍♂️ This book is essential for understanding how we got here with unequal school funding -- but, even more importantly, Dave has concrete ideas for how to build a better system.

A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o... @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is unmatched. Read her latest piece—and everything else she writes.

Must read from @schooldaves.bsky.social on how municipal socialism must contend with the bond market.

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