"Education Today"
A couple weeks ago, I was a featured guest on Education Today, a weekly radio show on KPFA, 94.1 out of Berkeley, CA. Hosted by longtime education activist...
Mamdani vs. the Credit Rating Machine
Last Thursday, I published the following op-ed on the Debt Collective’s substack, “In the Red.” I highly recommend you subscribe to it—there’s no better...
Behind the news
Doug Henwood is an institution on the left (look him up!), particularly when it comes to critiques of finance, and he’s got a great podcast called Behind the...
Critical teaching and learning forum
Announcements: I’ll be doing a book talk this week with Penn State, Swarthmore, and the Philadelphia Node of the Urban-Based Action Research Network online....
The Referenda
Announcement: I’ll be addressing a group of university and organizing groups in the Philadelphia area on 3/26, talking about my book, school finance, etc....
"War and revolution"
Announcement: I’m going to do an in-person book event with the United Teachers of Los Angeles on Saturday, April 11, 2026 at 11am PST. If you’re in LA it’d...
Democratic Finance for New York City’s Budget Dance
This piece was originally published at Money on the Left. After I wrote it, I posted it in on the NYC Public Servants subreddit, asking what people thought...
Super-expropriation index: the comic
I met the illustrator-organizer Soumya Dhulekar a few years ago. She’s a comrade and does excellent organizing work in addition to her art. We’ve been...
Lefty education podcasts
If you’re a lefty and interested in education, there are only a handful of podcast options for you, at least in terms of stuff that’s ongoing and not one-off...
Epstein and public finance
The Epstein emails are everywhere, for good reason. I like more structural interpretations of this situation, that the neoliberal era produced it’s own...
Grab the popcorn
Quick links My old friend and comrade Jason Wozniak gave a great interview on the podcast Another Education is Possible. The conversation is about debt,...
Making NYC school finance as public as possible
On Wednesday, January 14th, I was invited to address Community Education Council 4 (CEC4), one of the nearly 35 CECs that make up the New York City...
Is that neoliberal?
On my trip in France, the geographers took us on a walking tour of Marseille. (Geographers love walking tours and I love them for that.) I wrote about the...
"Because it's Marseille"
I’m traveling this week in France for a couple book talks, and also co-organizing a workshop where a bunch of scholars critically examine how school finance...
Railed
Happy new year! Things are still slow over here with a newborn, etc., so this week I’m sending along a section of an early draft of the piece I wrote on the...
Trade movies
This week I’m sending along a podcast interview I did with Geoff Alexander, host of Trade Movies. Geoff got in touch with me on tiktok after he read my...
Money on the left
It’s the holidays and things are slowing down. Come next year, I’ll pick up with my NYC school finance work. Meanwhile, this week I’m sending along a podcast...
To schools themselves
Quick Links Advait Arun wrote a thoughtful review of my book for his substack at The Crow’s Nest. He really gets what the book is all about politically,...
Mortifying amortization
Leonie Haimson slightly corrected a previous post of mine. She’s a prolific NYC-DOE watcher so I was grateful for her feedback. I said in a previous post...
Aggressively regressive
Quick links School board member training by Public School Strong, happening 12/4.An expansive review of my book in Jacobin published last week by Max...