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Selected Essays and Reviews

  • The Derangements of Sovereignty: Trumpism and the Dilemmas of Interdependence, H-Diplo/ISSF

  • Seeing Lincoln Square: Before Lincoln Center, Legacies of San Juan Hill

  • Roundtable on The Idealist, with comments by Mary Bridges, Adriane Lentz-Smith, Andrew Johnstone, Sarah Miller-Davenport, Dara Orenstein, Justus Doenecke, and John A. Thompson, introduced by David Milne, and concluding with my reply, at H-Diplo, With a PDF version, too.

  • Urban History and the Bonds of Debt, in San Francisco and Elsewhere, The Nation

  • Choosing Empire: Journalists and Diplomats Before and After World War II, Public Books

  • Reviving One World: James Baldwin Meets Wendell Willkie, History News Network

  • Recovering the Postwar Global Order that Never Happened, Foreign Policy

  • One World, Covid-19, and the Human Future, The Washington Post

  • What About Jane? (on Jane Jacobs and Gentrification, with Nate Storring and Jennifer Hock) Urban Omnibus

  • Punk, Ronald Reagan, and the Cultural Front of the 1980s, The Nation

  • Urban Renewal and its Discontents, Public Books

  • Interview: The Legacy of One World, Seminary Co-op Bookstore blog

  • Interview: On The Idealist, Rorotoko

  • Interview: Wendell Willkie’s One World Today, The American

  • The Strange Career of “One World,” Zocalo Public Square

  • The Lost Internationalism of Wendell Willkie, The Nation

  • Primal Forces: The Misunderstood Jane Jacobs, n+1

  • Reading Jane Jacobs with Fresh Eyes (with Nate Storring), CityLab

  • Jane Jacobs Beyond Left and Right (with Nate Storring), Toronto Globe and Mail

  • Jay-Z, Joe Bataan, and the “Public” in Public Housing, Rethinking History

  • Ed Koch and the Fires: 70s and 80s New York City, The Nation

  • New York Urbanism: Michael Sorkin and Jane Jacobs, The Nation

  • Joshua Tree and the Outsider Art of Los Angeles’s Neighborhood Frontier, Cabinet

  • Stuyvesant Town: History, Myth, and New York’s Always Vanishing Middle Class, New York Times

  • D.J. Waldie in Los Angeles, Southern California Quarterly

  • R.I.P. Jane Jacobs, In These Times

  • The Landmarking of Williamsburg Houses, Metropolis

  • The Consumer’s History of the 20th Century, In These Times

  • Up from Ground Zero: Rebuilding New York After September 11, In These Times

  • The Ruins of Cold War Architecture, In These Times

  • Centrifugal Cities: The History of Downtown, The Washington Post (Coming soon…)

  • Bike Messengers and the Sustainable City, In These Times

  • In the Hollow City: Gentrification, Rebecca Solnit, and San Francisco, In These Times

  • San Francisco Dot Com: The Libertarian City in the First Age of the Internet, The Baffler

  • New Urbanism and the Suburbs, In These Times

  • Going Underground: Bohemia, Subculture, and Alternative Culture in the 90s, In These Times

  • The Sweatshop in the Museum, The Baffler

  • Post-punk and the History of Rock, In These Times

  • Race on the Internet, Hotwired (Coming soon…)

  • William Vollmann’s Globalism, In These Times