Greg Berman
@GregBerman50
@VitalCityNYC co-editor; @HFGuggenheim fellow; @CJInnovation & @nyccja trustee; @innovjustice alum LATEST BOOK: http://bit.ly/42JgC3u
For @JoinPersuasion @americanpurpose I wrote about the Trump administration's attack on the American nonprofit sector, which is unprecedented but also doesn't come out of nowhere persuasion.community/p/fear-and-loa…
Just finished binge listening to "Mother Country Radicals," a podcast series about the Weather Underground, and had a few thoughts about political violence in the 1970s -- gregberman.substack.com/p/political-vi…
Available for pre-order here -- amazon.com/Nonprofit-Cris…
Great line from Janan Ganesh quoted in Greg Breman's excellent (forthcoming) book, The Nonprofit Crisis: "None of these people actively desire civilizational meltdown. They just under-rate the prospect of it happening as an inadvertent result of their actions."
New @VitalCityNYC feature: Oh, Snap! Amateur (and professional) photographers invited to share their snaps of street life in NYC. Today's edition is a good one.
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Fees and Fines? A research-driven experiment in Alabama offers some hope, write Leah Nelson, Sarah Picard, and Peter Jones in @VitalCityNYC. vitalcitynyc.org/articles/how-d…
“The Manhattan Institute but lib” (my words not the authors) is a kind of missing piece of the nonprofit/ideas firmament despite I think quite a bit of demand. Vital City kinds fills a City Journal esque role already
People support housing density if they like cities. The YIMBY movement will go farther if it evolves into a broader “livable cities” coalition. @CSElmendorf and @ProfSchleich show the way ⬇️
Kentucky governor Andy Beshear recently bemoaned the use of euphemisms like “justice involved populations.” For a deeper dive into the current battles over criminal justice terminology — vitalcitynyc.org/articles/the-p…
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One of the signal contributions of this piece — and of the Abundance phenomenon in general — is focusing on the reality of tradeoffs which cannot just be wished away. vitalcitynyc.org/articles/why-a…
Lowering grocery prices will be all but impossible if he keeps the other cost-raising promises and ideological commitments that he and his coalition champion, starting with almost doubling what many grocery store employees earn theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
I wrote about problems with the changing vocabulary within the criminal justice system here — vitalcitynyc.org/articles/the-p…
Enjoyed this @tabletmag rundown of Jewish baseball greats, including my grandmother’s cousin Morrie Arnovich, a one-time all-star. tabletmag.com/sections/sport…
"As e-bikes proliferate, a good chunk of the citizenry is discombobulated, the authorities are flummoxed, and cycling advocates appear confused." Brand-new, at @VitalCityNYC, is my bid to alchemize civic disorder into harmony. vitalcitynyc.org/articles/safe-… 1/2
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On the off chance that you haven't read enough already about Abundance, I offer my humble take on the book here: vitalcitynyc.org/articles/why-a…
Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson is the book that launched a thousand hot takes and we’ve got one of ‘em: vitalcitynyc.org/articles/why-a…
Really looking forward to this one.
Excited to announce that my new book, "The Nonprofit Crisis," will be released this fall by Oxford University Press. Pre-order here (please!): bit.ly/40GHmCl
I always learn something when I read Marc Levin. This piece is no exception.
Check out my piece today in @VitalCityNYC that looks at how we can get smarter about fighting crime by setting aside ideological preconceptions and focusing on the best evidence on what works! vitalcitynyc.org/articles/how-t…
So excited to attend the awarding of the Inside Literary Prize, a unique collaboration between Lori Feathers, Freedom Reads, and my old organization the Center for Justice Innovation
.@GregBerman50 offers his take on “Abundance,” the book that has sparked an intense debate about the future of liberal politics. vitalcitynyc.org/articles/why-a…