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...

In Opinion “Perhaps we were too dismissive of the yuppies. So much of what we take for granted today — from our meritocratic rat race to our gentrified neighborhoods to our culture of overwork, fitness training and foodie obsession — was born in the yuppie-made 1980s,” Dylan Gottlieb writes.

Thanks! Coincidentally just ordered your book, too.

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...

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In today's @nytimes.com, I went deep on yuppies -- the young professionals who are now so ubiquitous that we've ceased to notice them.

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

OAH was quite therapeutic (thanks to everyone who let me vent 😆), and the highlight was celebrating @dygottlieb.bsky.social ‘s forthcoming book YUPPIES!

About to head to Philly for the @oah.org conference! If you'll be there, check out my book at the @harvardpress.bsky.social booth. And if you see me, come say hello, and I'll share the details for my Friday night book launch party (co-hosted with the inimitable @jessicaannlevy.bsky.social).

They're here, and they're spectacular. Thanks to all for your help over the decade-plus it's taken to get here.

How did law firms and other professional workplaces become places of such crushing and soulless work? An Essay by @dygottlieb.bsky.social

“From Seattle to NYC, young professionals whisper that their firms have become ‘sweatshops’: factories where profits are squeezed out of their white-collar labour force. The exclusionary status quo of the previous mid-century has given way to something more diverse – yet much more exploitative.”

Why did elite professionals start calling their firms "sweatshops"? And who reaped the rewards of all that work? Read this excerpt from my new book, Yuppies, to find out.

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.

My former student @dygottlieb.bsky.social has his amazing first book coming out in May. It's all about the way NYC helped create the "yuppies" and how those yuppies then remade NYC. It's brilliant. You'll never think about Zagat's or the NYC Marathon the same way, trust me. Pre-order here:

This one's 🔥🔥🔥 (and more than a little terrifying).

Excellent mail day! @devintoshea.bsky.social @dygottlieb.bsky.social 👀👀👀

This month, we've got a VERY special episode: co-host @jessicaannlevy.bsky.social comes on to talk about her remarkable new @pennpress.bsky.social book, Black Power Inc., with @dygottlieb.bsky.social. Double the hosts, double the fun! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

Here's hoping she and the rest of the Lehman Brothers squad will be there, too.

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

Well hello there @dygottlieb.bsky.social! So excited to jump into this! Congratulations!

I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...

This was a fun one--thanks Sean

Our colleagues at SACRPH are launching the Alison Isenberg Dissertation Colloquium, to be held in conjunction with their National Conference on Planning History, in Cincinnati, Ohio. To learn more and to apply, click here: themetropole.blog/2026/01/14/c...

Are you a PhD student studying urban or metropolitan history? Apply to join the inaugural Alison Isenberg Dissertation Colloquium that we're running at the SACRPH conference this October. Come for the snacks, stay for the mentorship, camaraderie, and writing help.

Great listen that challenges many of the common understandings of idyllic, stable post-war suburbia. Chipping away at the mystique of 20th century American development is vital to finding solutions to housing/land use challenges we face today. @m-r-glass.bsky.social @dygottlieb.bsky.social

This was a blast--can't wait to read more from @benchansfield.bsky.social and Jan Altaner on their new projects.

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

This is fantastic — one former student of mine on the podcast of another former student of mine. Check out @m-r-glass.bsky.social chatting with Dylan Gottlieb on Who Makes Sense?

Yuppies has a cover! And a release date! Out May 12 with @harvardpress.bsky.social.

Netanyahu has not allowed any food, water, or fuel into Gaza in two weeks. Now he has resumed bombing, killing hundreds of people and breaking the ceasefire that had given Gaza a chance to live again. NO MORE MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.

“This liberalism appears increasingly exhausted in the face of today’s overlapping crises.” @brentcebul.bsky.social @lilygeismer.bsky.social @dygottlieb.bsky.social @pastpunditry.bsky.social & @danielle-wiggins.bsky.social discuss the struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party:

Join us to discuss the professional class roots of contemporary liberalism - tomorrow night, Th, Feb 20, 7pm ET. W/ @lilygeismer.bsky.social @bostonreview.bsky.social @dygottlieb.bsky.social @pastpunditry.bsky.social @danielle-wiggins.bsky.social secure.givelively.org/event/boston...