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I write for a variety of publications, popular and academic. Click above or here to see my articles and op-eds, policy and research papers, and book reviews. Also feel free to contact me if you'd like me to write for you.
Book Reviews
I enjoy trying to explain the ideas at the frontier of the left and liberal debates, and I find book reviews are one of the best ways to do this. Here are some of my favorites I've written.
Title | Date | Outlet | Book(s) Reviewed |
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09/20/19 | The Nation | Indebted (Caitlin Zaloom) | |
08/30/17 | Vox | Dream Hoarders (Richard Reeves) | |
07/18/16 | Boston Review | The Fractured Republic: Renewing America’s Social Contract in the Age of Individualism (Yuval Levin); American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper (Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson) | |
06/01/16 | Dissent | Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Matthew Desmond); Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud (David Dayen) | |
09/21/15 | Boston Review | Creating The Administrative Constitution: The Lost One Hundred Years of American Administrative Law (Jerry Mashaw); Tocqueville’s Nightmare: The Administrative State Emerges in America, 1900–1940 (Daniel Ernst); A Republic of Statutes: The New American Constitution (William N. Eskridge Jr. and John Ferejohn); The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right (Sophia Z. Lee) | |
03/01/15 | Dissent | The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America (Naomi Murakawa) | |
11/10/14 | Boston Review | Against the Profit Motive: The Salary Revolution in American Government, 1780–1940 (Nicholas R. Parrillo); The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession (Dana Goldstein); Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces (Radley Balko) | |
04/29/14 | Boston Review | Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Thomas Piketty) | |
02/08/14 | Washington Post | Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Melissa Gira Grant) | |
11/26/13 | The New Inquiry | Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste (Philip Mirowski) | |
06/15/12 | Dissent | Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy (Christopher Hayes) | |
03/01/12 | Dissent | The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics (Thomas Byrne Edsall) |
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