“If you want THE history book for the Zohran era, read Daniel Wortel-London’s great ‘The Menace of Prosperity’” - Pete Davis, founder of the Democracy Policy Network  press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Just found out my new nyc history book is reviewed in @jacobin’s forthcoming issue focusing on Zohran and municipal socialism. Sometimes things just work out. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

My favorite comment on the FT story

Economism...does not consist in giving too much importance to the economy, but in giving it too narrow a scope. —Max Horkheimer

What can NYC's history tell us about the roots of Zohran's win, what challenges he'll face, and how he can best meet them? Join Kim Phillips-Fein, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, and myself next Wednesday as we discuss these topics and my book "The Menace of Prosperity" See you there! shorturl.at/hPJ3x

Good haul at @redemmas.org

Was awesome seeing the great @petedavis.bsky.social and John Duda yesterday for my book talk at @redemmas.org - everyone’s favorite worker owned bookstore/cafe/radical space!

Thrilled to be quoted by @aljazeera.com on what Zohran's win means for the future of the Democratic Party! The takeaway: If Democrats want to rebuild a broad coalition, they’ll need to take a page from Mamdani’s playbook. Check it out here! www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

Thrilled to be quoted by Al Jazeera on what Zohran's win means for the future of the Democratic Party! The takeaway: If Democrats want to rebuild a broad coalition, they’ll need to take a page from Mamdani’s playbook. Check it out here! www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

What can NYC's history tell us about the roots of Zohran's win, what challenges he'll face, and how he can best meet them? Join Kim Phillips-Fein, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, and myself next Wednesday as we discuss these topics and my book "The Menace of Prosperity" See you there! shorturl.at/hPJ3x

I wrote an op-ed about Zohran’s primary victory a few months ago. The takeaway: You can’t finance a progressive platform using a regressive economy. For Zohran’s to succeed as mayor, he needs to remake NY’s economy so it works for the 99%. www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/26/m...

Generation Z indeed.

"If you want THE history book for the Zohran era, read @dlondonwortel.bsky.social's great "The Menace of Prosperity "— a history of various economic alternatives experimented with in New York’s history." @petedavis.bsky.social. Check it out here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

NYC to Trump:

Socialist abundance coming your way

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is the next mayor of New York. Here’s when we found out.

If @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social wins tonight, this book by @dlondonwortel — a tremendous urban history and storehouse of inspiring precedents and ideas — is going to be required reading in the coming years” - Pete Davis press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is the next mayor of New York. Here’s when we found out.

Zohran. History. Now.

Fantastic poster from Vito Marcantonio's (ultimately unsuccessful) bid for NYC mayor on the American Labor Party ticket in the 1949 election (h/t @dlondonwortel.bsky.social)

I'm attending a @nycdsa event: Mayoral Election Night Parties - Bushwick @ 9 Bob Note *FEATURING JACOBIN*. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/mayor...

I’ll be doing an online discussion about my new book today at 630 pm est; join me here! www.gothamcenter.org/upcoming-eve...

The Democrats have been internally divided in "progressive/conservative" wings since at least the 1920s. News commentary acts as if this is a new phenomenon. But it isn't.

This Wednesday, I'm excited to join Daniel Wortel-London @redemmas.org to talk about his important book "The Menace of Prosperity"—a sweeping history of NYC's urban political economy, and a powerful case that "we cannot afford to finance progressive policies through taxes on a regressive economy."

Come on down to @redemmas.org this Wednesday to join me and John Duda for a talk about my new book "The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development 1865-1981." Hopefully I won't be too hungover from November 4th ;) #zohranfornyc withfriends.co/event/268542...

Org chat of New York City, early 1920s. Note how financial and economic policy is insulated from the city electorate. That wasn't accidental. And things are even worse today. We need the public involved in public finance.

Land Value Politics, Kim Phillips-Fein interviews @dlondonwortel.bsky.social —"rather than seeing 'neoliberalism' as a turn towards economic logic, we should see it as a continuation of an older, very narrow fiscal imaginary." www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/d...

Police departments paid out $2.3 billion in settlements in one year. We're not overspending feeding people. We're overspending beating people.

Anyone wanna meet up at a @nycDSA election watch party next week? calendar.socialists.nyc

I’ll be giving my official ONLINE book launch for "The Menace of Prosperity" November 3rd! I'll be partnering with the @GothamCenter and joining @robertwsnyder to discuss NYC's economic history and its implications. RSVP today! www.gothamcenter.org/upcoming-eve...

Socialism can help bring abundance, abundance can help bring socialism. This framing sucks. See this great article by @waleedshahid.bsky.social for a better take. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Different headlines, same meaning?

Respond with a post of yours that you WISH took off, but didn't. Let's amplify each other!

Honored to be quoted twice in The Economist today! www.economist.com/briefing/202... www.economist.com/united-state...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

As you educate yourself on #ProjectMarvel, some historical context from @dlondonwortel.bsky.social is instructive. #satx deceleration.news/subsidizing-...

Honored to be quoted twice in The Economist today! www.economist.com/briefing/202... www.economist.com/united-state...

Subsidizing the Wealthy to Secure Well-Being for the Rest is a Strategy that Has Failed for Over 150 Years. That's the title of my latest article for @deceleration.news, a journal responding to our shared ecological and political crisis. Check it out here. deceleration.news/subsidizing-...

God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open. - Hazrat Inayat Khan

Love this!

Nobody escapes being wounded. We are all wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. The main question is not, 'How can we hide our wounds?'...but 'How can we put our woundedness in the service of others?' - Henri Nouwen

I'll be giving my official ONLINE book launch for "The Menace of Prosperity" November 3rd! I'll be partnering with Gotham Center and Robert Snyder, Manhattan Borough Historian, to discuss NYC's economic history and its implications. RSVP today and join us! www.gothamcenter.org/upcoming-eve...

The most Keynesian graph ever graphed: "One consumption expenditure starts many income cycles" From the National Resources Board, 1934.

How Public Works Create Employment. From the National Resources Board, 1934.

"Mr. Roosevelt is the only man we ever had in the White House who would understand that my boss is a sonofabitch." - Factory worker, 1936.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. - Brecht

How Public Works Create Employment. From the National Resources Board, 1934.

The most Keynesian graph ever graphed: "One consumption expenditure starts many income cycles" From the National Resources Board, 1934.

Manhattan from the Hudson Highlands