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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
The Student Debt Problem Is a Family Crisis	09/20/19	The Nation	Indebted (Caitlin Zaloom)
Well-off “helicopter” parents are super annoying, but they didn’t create economic inequality	08/30/17	Vox	Dream Hoarders (Richard Reeves)
The Forgotten State	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)
The Violence of Eviction	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)
Hail to the Pencil Pusher	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)
Liberal Punishment	03/01/15	Dissent	The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America (Naomi Murakawa)
Selling Fast	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)
Studying the Rich	04/29/14	Boston Review	Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Thomas Piketty)
Sex workers’ rights are just workers’ rights	02/08/14	Washington Post	Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Melissa Gira Grant)
How to Waste a Crisis	11/26/13	The New Inquiry	Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste (Philip Mirowski)
An Elite Like Any Other? Meritocracy in America	06/15/12	Dissent	Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy (Christopher Hayes)
Kinder, Gentler Cuts	03/01/12	Dissent	The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics (Thomas Byrne Edsall)