Writing 

 

• "We Still Live in the World Yuppies Created," The New York Times (2026)

 

• "White-Collar Sweatshops," Aeon (2026)

 

• “Who to Blame for the Rise of the Yuppie? Investment Banks, Obviously,” Literary Hub (2026)

 

• "Making the Liberal Media: Journalism's Class Transformation since the 1960s," in Mastery and Drift: Professional Class Liberals since the 1960s (University of Chicago Press, 2025)

 

• “Will Remote Work Kill Cities?” Bentley Magazine (2024)

 

• "Yuppies: Wall Street and the Remaking of Postindustrial New York," Enterprise & Society (2021)

 

• Review of Andrew Diamond and Thomas Sugrue, eds., Neoliberal Cities: The Remaking of Postwar America, in the Journal of  American History (2021)

 

• "A Conversation on Gentrification, Arson, and Displacement," Process: A Blog for American History, from the Journal of American History (2020)

 

• Review of Leandra Ruth Zarnow, Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug, in Gotham (2020)

 

• "Hoboken is Burning: Yuppies, Arson, and Displacement in the Postindustrial City," Journal of American History (2019)

 

• "How Gentrification Caused America's Cities to Burn," Washington Post (2019)

 

• Review of Brian Goldstein, The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle over Harlem, in Planning Perspectives (2018)

 

•  Review of Aaron Cowan, A Nice Place to Visit: Tourism and Urban Revitalization in the Postwar Rustbelt, in Ohio Valley History (2018)

 

• "Rat Race: Why Are Young Professionals Crazy for Marathons?" Public Seminar (2018)

 

• "'Dirty, Authentic…Delicious': Yelp, Mexican Restaurants, and the Appetites of Philadelphia’s New Middle Class," Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies (2015)

 

• "'Closer to Heaven': Race and Diversity in Suburban America," Journal of Urban History (2015)

 

• Nine entries in The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, Mid-Atlantic Center for the Humanities at Rutgers-Camden (2013-2014)

 

• "Sixth Avenue Heartache: Race, Commemoration, and the Colorblind Consensus in Zephyrhills, Florida, 2003–2004," Journal of Urban History (2013)

 

• Exhibition review of American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, in Journal of American History (2013)

 

• Review of Victoria W. Wollcott, Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America, in Journal of American Culture (2013)

 

• Review of Gregory L. Heller, Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia, in H-Urban (2013)

 

• Review of Charlene Mires, Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations, in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (2013) 

 

 

Media and interviews (selected)

 

Co-host, Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast (2024-present)

 

Media features and reviews: The New York Times, The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Financial Times, The New Republic, Dissent, Paris Review, Culture Study, Compact Magazine, The Times (UK), Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Switzerland), Business History Review, British Journal of Sociology, Orange Blossom Ordinary, Amazon (Editor’s Pick–Best History Books), Library Journal, Commonweal, Washington Free Beacon, Upper Middle, Tertulia (Best University Press Books of 2026), Dagbladet Information (Denmark), Atlas Magasin (Denmark), Weekendavisen (Denmark)

 

Radio and podcast appearances (selected): It's Been A Minute (NPR), Think (KERA/NPR), Against the Grain (KPFA), Behind the News (KPFA), Good Food (KCRW), The Culture Show (WGBH), This Guy Sucked, Keen on America, American Campus, Lever Time with David Sirota, Langsomme Samtaler, Skipped History, Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast, Talk Cocktail

 

Recent interviews (selected):