@dlondonwortel.bsky.social
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
It is worth noting that in the 1930s, the United States diverged from a global trend toward right-wing extremism owing in large measure to the rapid and visible successes of the New Deal.
In the years after the 2008 crash, it did not.
- Eric Rauchway
In the years after the 2008 crash, it did not.
- Eric Rauchway
December 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It is worth noting that in the 1930s, the United States diverged from a global trend toward right-wing extremism owing in large measure to the rapid and visible successes of the New Deal.
In the years after the 2008 crash, it did not.
- Eric Rauchway
In the years after the 2008 crash, it did not.
- Eric Rauchway
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You can’t build an affordable city atop a regressive economy.
That's the argument of my new @jacobin piece, which shows how Zohran can pair wealth taxes with a bold economic strategy on behalf of Gotham's working-class.
Check it out here!
jacobin.com/2025/12/mamd...
That's the argument of my new @jacobin piece, which shows how Zohran can pair wealth taxes with a bold economic strategy on behalf of Gotham's working-class.
Check it out here!
jacobin.com/2025/12/mamd...
Zohran Mamdani Can Reduce New York’s Dependence on the Rich
Time and again, New York City’s dependence on the rich and private corporations has led it into fiscal crisis. As mayor, Zohran Mamdani has the opportunity to start building an economic base that bett...
jacobin.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
You can’t build an affordable city atop a regressive economy.
That's the argument of my new @jacobin piece, which shows how Zohran can pair wealth taxes with a bold economic strategy on behalf of Gotham's working-class.
Check it out here!
jacobin.com/2025/12/mamd...
That's the argument of my new @jacobin piece, which shows how Zohran can pair wealth taxes with a bold economic strategy on behalf of Gotham's working-class.
Check it out here!
jacobin.com/2025/12/mamd...
You can’t build an affordable city atop a regressive economy.
That's the argument of my new @jacobin piece, which shows how Zohran can pair wealth taxes with a bold economic strategy on behalf of Gotham's working-class.
Check it out here!
jacobin.com/2025/12/mamd...
That's the argument of my new @jacobin piece, which shows how Zohran can pair wealth taxes with a bold economic strategy on behalf of Gotham's working-class.
Check it out here!
jacobin.com/2025/12/mamd...
Zohran Mamdani Can Reduce New York’s Dependence on the Rich
Time and again, New York City’s dependence on the rich and private corporations has led it into fiscal crisis. As mayor, Zohran Mamdani has the opportunity to start building an economic base that bett...
jacobin.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
You can’t build an affordable city atop a regressive economy.
That's the argument of my new @jacobin piece, which shows how Zohran can pair wealth taxes with a bold economic strategy on behalf of Gotham's working-class.
Check it out here!
jacobin.com/2025/12/mamd...
That's the argument of my new @jacobin piece, which shows how Zohran can pair wealth taxes with a bold economic strategy on behalf of Gotham's working-class.
Check it out here!
jacobin.com/2025/12/mamd...
Excited that my book "The Menace of Prosperity" will be reviewed by @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social for their first issue of 2026!
And that they'll be featuring my review of the gloriously idiosyncratic "Sonnets for my city" by Arthur C. Holden.
Be sure to subscribe :)
nyra.nyc
And that they'll be featuring my review of the gloriously idiosyncratic "Sonnets for my city" by Arthur C. Holden.
Be sure to subscribe :)
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nyra.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Excited that my book "The Menace of Prosperity" will be reviewed by @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social for their first issue of 2026!
And that they'll be featuring my review of the gloriously idiosyncratic "Sonnets for my city" by Arthur C. Holden.
Be sure to subscribe :)
nyra.nyc
And that they'll be featuring my review of the gloriously idiosyncratic "Sonnets for my city" by Arthur C. Holden.
Be sure to subscribe :)
nyra.nyc
As Zohran prepares to enter office, we should learn from the radicalism of "Red" Ken Livingston's Greater London Council - and their efforts to transform London's economy in the interests of its working people - today.
Read my article here for Tribune.
tribunemag.co.uk/2022/09/glc-...
Read my article here for Tribune.
tribunemag.co.uk/2022/09/glc-...
Building a People’s Economy in London
In the 1980s, a group of radical economists, planners, and activists in the GLC set out to transform London’s economy in the interest of its working class – with achievements and limitations we can le...
tribunemag.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
As Zohran prepares to enter office, we should learn from the radicalism of "Red" Ken Livingston's Greater London Council - and their efforts to transform London's economy in the interests of its working people - today.
Read my article here for Tribune.
tribunemag.co.uk/2022/09/glc-...
Read my article here for Tribune.
tribunemag.co.uk/2022/09/glc-...
Stoppard and Sondheim - how numbingly flat our world is without them, crushed in a culture devoid of craft and wit and intelligence.
But surrender is not an option.
But surrender is not an option.
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Stoppard and Sondheim - how numbingly flat our world is without them, crushed in a culture devoid of craft and wit and intelligence.
But surrender is not an option.
But surrender is not an option.
Every bad current within the Left can be viewed as the price paid for some other bad current.
“Political correctness” was a manifestation of postmodernism, which was a reaction to another set of bad politics.
-Noel Ignatiev
blog.pmpress.org/2019/09/05/t...
Thoughts?
“Political correctness” was a manifestation of postmodernism, which was a reaction to another set of bad politics.
-Noel Ignatiev
blog.pmpress.org/2019/09/05/t...
Thoughts?
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Every bad current within the Left can be viewed as the price paid for some other bad current.
“Political correctness” was a manifestation of postmodernism, which was a reaction to another set of bad politics.
-Noel Ignatiev
blog.pmpress.org/2019/09/05/t...
Thoughts?
“Political correctness” was a manifestation of postmodernism, which was a reaction to another set of bad politics.
-Noel Ignatiev
blog.pmpress.org/2019/09/05/t...
Thoughts?
What’s the best in-class assignment you’ve ever given?
I structured a debate between Hubert Humphrey and Fannie Lou Hamer re: the 1964 Atlantic City dem convention that got into pragmatism and morality - their tensions and interdependence - that left my classroom totally shook.
I structured a debate between Hubert Humphrey and Fannie Lou Hamer re: the 1964 Atlantic City dem convention that got into pragmatism and morality - their tensions and interdependence - that left my classroom totally shook.
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
What’s the best in-class assignment you’ve ever given?
I structured a debate between Hubert Humphrey and Fannie Lou Hamer re: the 1964 Atlantic City dem convention that got into pragmatism and morality - their tensions and interdependence - that left my classroom totally shook.
I structured a debate between Hubert Humphrey and Fannie Lou Hamer re: the 1964 Atlantic City dem convention that got into pragmatism and morality - their tensions and interdependence - that left my classroom totally shook.
I LOVE me some historical institutionalist charts
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I LOVE me some historical institutionalist charts
Historical institutionalists/APD scholars might not be right about everything, but their approach towards historical change and causality is the best I’ve seen in this biz.
November 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Historical institutionalists/APD scholars might not be right about everything, but their approach towards historical change and causality is the best I’ve seen in this biz.
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Mamdani’s election signals a turning tide - and the lessons of New York's past couldn’t be more urgent.
Join me and the Wellbeing Economy Alliance on December 17th to dig into into NYC's long fight between extractive growth and community-rooted visions of justice.
zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Join me and the Wellbeing Economy Alliance on December 17th to dig into into NYC's long fight between extractive growth and community-rooted visions of justice.
zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Dec WEAll Talk: Prosperity for Whom? Lessons from New York City’s Battles Over Economic Justice x Daniel Wortel-London. After registering, you will receive ...
In this talk, Daniel Wortel-London uncovers the history of competing visions for prosperity in New York City. While elite-led development promised growth, it repeatedly delivered instability and exclu...
zoom.us
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Mamdani’s election signals a turning tide - and the lessons of New York's past couldn’t be more urgent.
Join me and the Wellbeing Economy Alliance on December 17th to dig into into NYC's long fight between extractive growth and community-rooted visions of justice.
zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Join me and the Wellbeing Economy Alliance on December 17th to dig into into NYC's long fight between extractive growth and community-rooted visions of justice.
zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Mamdani’s election signals a turning tide - and the lessons of New York's past couldn’t be more urgent.
Join me and the Wellbeing Economy Alliance on December 17th to dig into into NYC's long fight between extractive growth and community-rooted visions of justice.
zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Join me and the Wellbeing Economy Alliance on December 17th to dig into into NYC's long fight between extractive growth and community-rooted visions of justice.
zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Dec WEAll Talk: Prosperity for Whom? Lessons from New York City’s Battles Over Economic Justice x Daniel Wortel-London. After registering, you will receive ...
In this talk, Daniel Wortel-London uncovers the history of competing visions for prosperity in New York City. While elite-led development promised growth, it repeatedly delivered instability and exclu...
zoom.us
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Mamdani’s election signals a turning tide - and the lessons of New York's past couldn’t be more urgent.
Join me and the Wellbeing Economy Alliance on December 17th to dig into into NYC's long fight between extractive growth and community-rooted visions of justice.
zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Join me and the Wellbeing Economy Alliance on December 17th to dig into into NYC's long fight between extractive growth and community-rooted visions of justice.
zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Great to see my advisors Kim Phillips-Fein and @andrewneedham.bsky.social at my @ipk.bsky.social book talk yesterday! Add @tomsugrue.bsky.social and @masonbwilliams.bsky.social and you’d have my whole committee.
Thank you everyone who came out!
@city.bsky.social
Thank you everyone who came out!
@city.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Great to see my advisors Kim Phillips-Fein and @andrewneedham.bsky.social at my @ipk.bsky.social book talk yesterday! Add @tomsugrue.bsky.social and @masonbwilliams.bsky.social and you’d have my whole committee.
Thank you everyone who came out!
@city.bsky.social
Thank you everyone who came out!
@city.bsky.social
Good timing on the Dems to release this now. Kicks the Cave off the news-cycle.
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Good timing on the Dems to release this now. Kicks the Cave off the news-cycle.
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Tonight at IPK: @dlondonwortel.bsky.social discusses his book The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865-1981 with Andy Morrison and Kim Phillips-Fein.
November 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Tonight at IPK: @dlondonwortel.bsky.social discusses his book The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865-1981 with Andy Morrison and Kim Phillips-Fein.
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Join IPK tonight, November 12, for an event with @dlondonwortel.bsky.social. He will discuss his book The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865-1981 with Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Kim Phillips-Fein.
ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Join IPK tonight, November 12, for an event with @dlondonwortel.bsky.social. He will discuss his book The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865-1981 with Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Kim Phillips-Fein.
ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
What can NYC's history tell us about the roots of Zohran's win and what challenges he'll face?
Join Kim Phillips-Fein, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, and myself next Wednesday as we discuss these topics and my new book "The Menace of Prosperity." RSVP today!
ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
Join Kim Phillips-Fein, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, and myself next Wednesday as we discuss these topics and my new book "The Menace of Prosperity." RSVP today!
ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
What can NYC's history tell us about the roots of Zohran's win and what challenges he'll face?
Join Kim Phillips-Fein, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, and myself next Wednesday as we discuss these topics and my new book "The Menace of Prosperity." RSVP today!
ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
Join Kim Phillips-Fein, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, and myself next Wednesday as we discuss these topics and my new book "The Menace of Prosperity." RSVP today!
ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
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Join IPK on November 12 for an event with @dlondonwortel.bsky.social. He will discuss his book The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865-1981 with Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Kim Phillips-Fein.
ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Join IPK on November 12 for an event with @dlondonwortel.bsky.social. He will discuss his book The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865-1981 with Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Kim Phillips-Fein.
ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
Achieved: making battles over civil service reform sexy.
Next step: 8 part series on the McGovern-Fraser commission!
Next step: 8 part series on the McGovern-Fraser commission!
November 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Achieved: making battles over civil service reform sexy.
Next step: 8 part series on the McGovern-Fraser commission!
Next step: 8 part series on the McGovern-Fraser commission!
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Having shitty, corrupt, thuggish cops is expensive.
Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.
Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.
Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
kansasreflector.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Having shitty, corrupt, thuggish cops is expensive.
Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.
Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.
I just saw this
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I just saw this
What can NYC's radical history tell us about the roots of Zohran Mamdani's win, what challenges he'll face in office, and how they might play out?
Join me, Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Kim Phillips-Fein this Wednesday as we discuss this and my new book!
mailchi.mp/nyu/discussi...
Join me, Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Kim Phillips-Fein this Wednesday as we discuss this and my new book!
mailchi.mp/nyu/discussi...
Book Talk | Daniel Wortel-London | The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865-1981
mailchi.mp
November 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
What can NYC's radical history tell us about the roots of Zohran Mamdani's win, what challenges he'll face in office, and how they might play out?
Join me, Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Kim Phillips-Fein this Wednesday as we discuss this and my new book!
mailchi.mp/nyu/discussi...
Join me, Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Kim Phillips-Fein this Wednesday as we discuss this and my new book!
mailchi.mp/nyu/discussi...
“If you want THE history book for the Zohran era, read Daniel Wortel-London’s great ‘The Menace of Prosperity’”
- Pete Davis, founder of the Democracy Policy Network
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
- Pete Davis, founder of the Democracy Policy Network
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Menace of Prosperity
Upends entrenched thinking about cities, demonstrating how urban economies are defined—or constrained—by the fiscal imagination of policymakers, activists, and residents. Many local policymakers mak...
press.uchicago.edu
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“If you want THE history book for the Zohran era, read Daniel Wortel-London’s great ‘The Menace of Prosperity’”
- Pete Davis, founder of the Democracy Policy Network
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
- Pete Davis, founder of the Democracy Policy Network
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Just found out my new nyc history book is reviewed in @jacobin’s forthcoming issue focusing on Zohran and municipal socialism.
Sometimes things just work out.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Sometimes things just work out.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Menace of Prosperity
Upends entrenched thinking about cities, demonstrating how urban economies are defined—or constrained—by the fiscal imagination of policymakers, activists, and residents. Many local policymakers mak...
press.uchicago.edu
November 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Just found out my new nyc history book is reviewed in @jacobin’s forthcoming issue focusing on Zohran and municipal socialism.
Sometimes things just work out.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Sometimes things just work out.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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My favorite comment on the FT story
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
My favorite comment on the FT story