Mike Glass

Mayor Mamdani’s Budget Can Add Up New York’s incoming socialist mayor faces real fiscal constraints — but also real opportunities. With a strong tax base, modest reforms, and a clear political mandate, Zohran Mamdani has the tools to ...

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

Cracked Foundations – Penn Press How debt and speculation financed the suburban American dream and led to today’s inequalitiesIn the popular imagination, the suburbs are synonymous with th...

Let me know if you need a PDF of the review. Full book available here: www.pennpress.org/978151282822...

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 Suburbs Have a Financial Secret Municipal bonds have become an unavoidable part of local governance—and their costs divide rich towns from poor ones.

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...

American Suburbs Have a Financial Secret Municipal bonds have become an unavoidable part of local governance—and their costs divide rich towns from poor ones.

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

Cracked Foundations – Penn Press How debt and speculation financed the suburban American dream and led to today’s inequalitiesIn the popular imagination, the suburbs are synonymous with th...

Entire book here: www.pennpress.org/978151282822...

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.

@pennpress.bsky.social

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 screenshot of a block of text with a black background and white serif font. The text reads: “I don’t particularly care about the symbols people use to signal their membership in a group. Maybe you do need a terrifying tattoo to be a real Marine. And maybe sometimes that terrifying tattoo might resemble Nazi iconography. If you are willing to accept that from a distance, as many Democrats say they are, a person may not be able to tell the real symbol of hate from its doppelgänger, that is for you to live with. But, I do care about the political trade-offs we will ask people to make in the name of pragmatism. If the Democratic future requires us to exchange our discomfort with casual Nazism to advance a political agenda, I am not interested. Maybe other voters are — some polling suggests that young voters still support Platner. And maybe Platner will find a way to redeem himself. No one owes him that chance, but there is still a way forward. It’s called doing the work. But don’t tell me that excusing that tattoo is good politics. It is the exact same politics that the right is selling, in a different outfit.”

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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kind of strange to watch other disciplines absorb the shock of austerity that History has faced pretty much relentlessly since 2009

Boston. Wow.

Mortgaging Out: Fha Credit Policy, Segregated Rental Housing, and the Remaking of Metropolitan America On a hot afternoon in July 1954, Fred C. Trump sat as a witness before the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency. He had been subpoenaed for an investig

Price Lab exec committee member @brentcebul.bsky.social and Mike Glass are in the Journal of American History on FHA housing and segregation

A Roosevelt/New Deal poster from 1940

Ugh, I also came home to a sniffling child. Solidarity!

Amazing!!

I've really appreciated people sending me pictures of my Book Baby out in the world. Please keep them coming!! 😊

“To really take on Trumpism, liberals and the left will have to think less about restoring a tenuous normalcy by winning particular elections or countering the especially noxious parts of Trump’s agenda, and more about how to rebuild those economic and political institutions—unions, tenants’ organizations, independent media, political groups—that give people the experience of political power and collective action. Instead of answering Trump’s personalistic politics by telling voters to let competent experts back into the White House so that they can take control—let alone responding to Trump’s transphobia or anti-immigrant politics by adopting aspects of that language in an attempt to win back the people drawn to him—what we really need is a way to remind many middle- and working-class voters what it actually means to live in a society in which they exercise some measure of agency, and in which the leadership of that society is democratically accountable in a meaningful way.”

From Kim Phillips-Fein’s brand new review of Melinda Cooper’s COUNTERREVOLUTION. 🗃️

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Book launch TOMORROW at @bplmaps.bsky.social!!! 🏠

Spotted this @pennpress.bsky.social beauty in the wild in Los Angeles. Thank you to @urbanhistorya.bsky.social for a wonderful conference!!!

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

higher education in 2025, where students can coordinate public harassment campaigns against faculty with impunity but also where professors can’t actually flee the country to escape threats to murder them in class (gift link). www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

CRACKED FOUNDATIONS by @m-r-glass.bsky.social (out this week!) examines how debt and speculation financed the suburban American dream and led to today’s inequalities. Listen to Glass's conversation with Jenna Pittman on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to learn more! newbooksnetwork.com/cracked-foun...

Cracked Foundations – Penn Press How debt and speculation financed the suburban American dream and led to today’s inequalitiesIn the popular imagination, the suburbs are synonymous with th...

And book available here -- with 40% off using the discount code UHA25.
www.pennpress.org/978151282822...

😲 Thank you ‪@kevinmkruse.bsky.social for all the support and encouragement over the years!!!

This book started with discussions in your office, where I always chewed gum too loudly!

Just got my copy of this brilliant new book by my former student @m-r-glass.bsky.social, an amazing new study of postwar suburbia on Long Island.

Check it out!

I love how the colors on the cover match the ambiance of your house!

And another beauty just arrived! Congrats @m-r-glass.bsky.social!