Mike Glass
@m_r_glass
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Historian @BostonCollege. Pre-order CRACKED FOUNDATIONS: Debt and Inequality in Suburban America (@PennPress, 10/7): https://t.co/uah2PN8GxN
Boston, MA
Joined March 2015
My book with @PennPress has a cover, a description, and a release date. Coming in October! 🥳 https://t.co/gFGS7Yo3Nt
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So basically the Epstein files vindicated the most conspiracy-theory-brained understandings of American geopolitics, where it's all just corrupt politicians, establishment luminaries, and intelligence agencies fucking kids and blackmailing each other all the live-long day.
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Excellent analysis of the fiscal challenges -- and opportunities -- awaiting Mamdani. https://t.co/mKqC3B4QTl
jacobin.com
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...
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Let me know if you need a PDF of the review. And book available here:
pennpress.org
How debt and speculation financed the suburban American dream and led to today’s inequalitiesIn the popular imagination, the suburbs are synonymous with th...
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I so appreciate @michaelwwaters's generous review of my book in @TheAtlantic about the "secret American pastime" of municipal bonds. Check it out! https://t.co/Eq0YnHljqT
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Don't miss @michaelwwaters's thoughtful piece on @m_r_glass's new book CRACKED FOUNDATIONS, exploring municipal debt in America's suburbs!
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: https://t.co/iZ1k2leB9p
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An excerpt of my @PennPress book -- on school bonds in Levittown -- was just published in FINANCIAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. 🤑 Freely available here: https://t.co/SR7iYAtnxW.
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I’m enormously proud of what the socialist left in the United States has accomplished over the past decade. We’ve gone from nowhere to everywhere, working to build a majority coalition that can defeat fascist authoritarianism by transforming everyday people’s material conditions
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Next month (12/1) I'm doing an online book event with @GothamCenter, 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: https://t.co/RFE6Xh5vzU
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I got to talk with two of the smartest people I know -- @realLandsEnd and @tracyrosenthal_ -- about BORN IN FLAMES. Check out the latest @DeathPanel_ here
In our latest, we speak with @benchansfield about “riot prone areas,” moral hazard, how landlords burned the Bronx in the 1970s, and their new book Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City https://t.co/lI5O7D4Hic
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We are heartbroken by reports of the two fatalities in basements following the heavy rainfall yesterday. See the BASE Coalition's full statement calling on the city to launch the basement and cellar conversion program without further delay to help prevent future tragedies.
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Latest update: Man found dead in flooded Brooklyn basement as record-breaking rain drenches NYC, N.J.
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Two men died during a record-breaking rainfall that drenched the New York City metro area Thursday afternoon — a 39-year-old man found unconscious and unresponsive in a flooded basement in Brooklyn…
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This is good: Paying for It | David I. Backer
thebaffler.com
Should Zohran Mamdani become the next mayor of New York City, he will be restricted by the municipal bond market.
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😬 “The History department will be admitting five students each year for the next two years, down from 13 admitted students last year."
🚨Breaking: @Harvard just announced massive cuts to dozens of its PhD programs, citing “financial pressure.” - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German
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I've really appreciated people sending me pictures of my Book Baby out in the world. Please keep them coming!! 😊
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From Kim Phillips-Fein’s brand new review of Melinda Cooper’s COUNTERREVOLUTION. https://t.co/8KzPMuSX7m
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Bostonians can see @m_r_glass launch CRACKED FOUNDATIONS tomorrow at BPL, but our UMass Boston history grads got the privilege of hearing Mike talk about his book in class today! Big thanks for coming through with the book just one week into the world!
Boston followers: Don't miss author @m_r_glass discussing his new book CRACKED FOUNDATIONS, about how debt and speculation financed the suburban American dream and led to today’s inequalities, tomorrow 10/15 at @bplmaps! Register now to reserve your spot https://t.co/jtRMMtfxjW
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