Samuel Zipp

teaches American Studies and Urban Studies at Brown University and is the author of The Idealist: Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World.

How Private Capital Strangled Our Cities

How Private Capital Strangled Our Cities How Private Capital Strangled Our Cities

By following the money, a new history of urban inequality turns our attention away from federal malfeasance and toward capital markets and financial instruments.

Jan 4, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Zipp

The Ethical Commitment to Be a Punk

The Ethical Commitment to Be a Punk The Ethical Commitment to Be a Punk

How 1980s punk music birthed its own kind of radical politics. 

Jan 6, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Zipp

The Lost Internationalism of Wendell Willkie

The Lost Internationalism of Wendell Willkie The Lost Internationalism of Wendell Willkie

David Levering Lewis’s new biography recovers Willkie’s anti-imperialist vision.

Mar 14, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Zipp

Burning Down the House: On Ed Koch

Burning Down the House: On Ed Koch Burning Down the House: On Ed Koch

Ed Koch rebuilt New York City by demolishing its long-running experiments in urban liberalism.

Nov 23, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Zipp

Living for the City Living for the City

There's more to the legend of Jane Jacobs than her showdown with Robert Moses.  

Mar 18, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Zipp

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