@dlondonwortel
Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Bard. Under contract with UChicago Press for "The Menace of Prosperity." Economic history. http://Publicspaced.com https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo247855479.html - www.publicspaced.com
I never realized until last semester that Frederick Douglas DEFENDED the US constitution as an anti-slavery document - against white abolitionists like Garrison who advocated northern secession from the morally compromised union.
What they don't teach you in grad school...
“YOU just try to devise a poem that channels the qualia of zoning. And another on the splendiferous tonic of equity trusts.”
@dlondonwortel.bsky.social waxes poetic about SONNETS FOR MY CITY (1965) by Arthur C. Holden in NYRA 49.
nyra.nyc/articles/village-voice
holy shit
I’m teaching an online class!
From Astor to Zohran: Real Estate and Radicalism in New York City, 1811-2026
It examines the long and contested relationship between real estate, political power, and radical reform movements in New York City.
Sign up!
gradcenter.ce.cuny.edu/coursedispla...
Looks like a Wyeth painting
Vaclav Havel has become newly relevant thanks to the Canadian PM.
Mid-sized countries, nor US residents, can no longer indulge the lie that compliance with our government will buy us safety.
250 years later, it’s time for more revolutionary rethinking.
open.substack.com/pub/dlondon7...
The Death of Bara (1883) by Jean-Joseph Weerts
I'm not sure Democrats in D.C. are aware that their base's rage against ICE has reached a level of blinding white-hot intensity.
They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
Minneapolis's general strike is a moment of civic re-awakening for our country.
It speaks to a growing desire to pursue the common good, to lock arms with neighbors and build a Great Community.
We aren't beaten. We are building.
One of the greatest political poems ever written: “The Interrogation of the Good” by Brecht
My father believed in art, community, and the life of the mind.
He died in 2023. What he believed in now seems not just besieged, but morally compromised and irrelevant.
How can I keep faith with my father and his liberal humanism without illusions?
I have to write on this.
As far as I'm concerned, the issue here is the AHA leadership hiding behind the pretense of "fiduciary responsibility" (to use a term that anti-resolution speakers frequently invoked at the business meeting) to veto a political position they disagree with. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/a...
Just got my mid-year sales/royalty report on "The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development" from University of Chicago Press.
Looking good!
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911
"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
Zohran should keep doing new things each day that get his opposition so pissed they can't focus on any one thing to gripe about.
Flood the zone with [woke] shit. Hey, it works for the prez!
If you type "Democrats aren't in power so they can't do anything" in my mentions I will block you into the fucking sun
Governing from the left requires more than the moral clarity of a single progressive administration:
It requires building an infrastructure that prepares the ground for the next one.
Zohran, take note.
My latest for @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Anyone going to the Zohran inauguration/afterparty? Let’s meet up!
@masonbwilliams.bsky.social
Hysterical campaign slogans from Gershwin's 1931 political farce "Of Thee I Sing"
Vaudeville was the theatrical equivalent of TikTok: short bits of entertainment with little thematic, character or plot development.
Similar formats dominated most 19th-century stages.
The holistically unified work of art is a recent - and perhaps passing - development.
A terrific review of my new NYC history book "The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development" is in @jacobinmag.bsky.social today!
It's for subscribers only - but let me know if you'd like a copy ;)
I've been going hard on partyism lately, but this is the pièce de résistance.
A new para-party can combine our era's hyper-politicization with grassroots organizing and civic engagement.
The DSA must be that party.
socialistregister.com/index.php/sr...
Had a great interview with the @TheIndypendent about my new book "The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development" and lessons for Zohran's administration.
Check it out here!
indypendent.org/2025/12/nycs...
A terrific review of my new NYC history book "The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development" is in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social today!
It's for subscribers only - but let me know if you'd like a copy ;)
jacobin.com/2025/12/the-...
Had a great interview with The Indypendent about lessons Zohran can learn from NYC's economic history.
Check it out here!
indypendent.org/2025/12/nycs...
Every single one of you must read this book.
Glad to be referenced in this @jewishcurrents.bsky.social essay by the great Samuel Stein!
jewishcurrents.org/zohran-mamda...
Wrong take: mediocre white men don’t deserve tenure track humanities jobs in academia.
Correct take: from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.
