“Can I Get a Passport with That?” Inside Story. 2023.
“Midcentury Modern Furniture Owes Its Popularity to the Welfare State.” New Republic. 2023.
“The Waste Land: America’s Addiction to Parking” New Republic. 2023.
“New York Dropped Dead, and Some People Loved It.” New Republic. 2022.
“Los Angeles Has Always Been Burning: Remembering Mike Davis.” New Republic. 2022.
“Move Closer.” Aeon. 2022.
“What Happens When Cities Say No to Growth.” The Washington Post. 2022.
“How the Loft Generation Refused to Fit In.” New Republic. 2021.
“Homeless at the Gates of Disney World.” New Republic. 2021.
“Relic Steel.” (with Samuel Holleran) Places Journal. 2021.
“When the Government Supported Writers.” New Republic. 2021.
“The Future of Staying Home.” New Republic. 2020.
“The Secluded Self: Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street at 100.” Public Books. 2020.
“Why Coronavirus Must Not Stop Australia Creating Denser Cities.” The Conversation. 2020.
“Cutting Up the Colorado River.” New Republic. 2019.
“The Dean: Out of the Ruins of War, Walter Gropius Made a Vital Political Community.” New Republic. 2019.
“Retirement in America? Too Expensive.” New Republic. 2018.
“Post-Communist Blues: Stockholm Syndrome for the Eastern Bloc?” Overland. 2018.
“The Abandonment of Flint.” New Republic. 2018.
“The EU on a Shoestring.” Los Angeles Review of Books. 2018.
“Thy Neighbour in the Crosshairs.” Australian Book Review. 2018.
“The Opportunistic Rise of Europe’s Far Right.” New Republic. 2018.
“When Big Government Was Big.” Los Angeles Review of Books. 2018.
“Urban Brawl: How Cities Are Controlled” Times Literary Supplement. 2017.
“The Promise of Legal Pot.” New Republic. 2017.
“The Might of the Right: the Virginia School of Neoliberalism.” Australian Book Review. 2017.
“Red House: The Rise and Fall of Bolshevism Under One Roof.” Los Angeles Review of Books. 2017.
“How Fast Food Chains Supersized Inequality.” New Republic. 2017.
“Your Prius is Not Enough.” Public Books. 2017.
“The Dismemberment of Europe.” Slate. 2017.
“Marshall Berman’s Freestyle Marxism.” New Republic. 2017.
“Benevolent Imperialism.” Slate. 2017.
“Bright Lights, Small Government: Why Libertarians Adore Jane Jacobs.” New Republic. 2016.
“Backpacking Across ‘Stand Your Ground’ Territory” Public Books. 2016.
“The Citizenship Business.” Public Books. 2016.
“How Gentrifiers Gentrify.” Public Books. 2015.
“The Villagers Strike Back.” Public Books. 2014.
“Donald Trump is from America’s Most Diverse Neighborhood, How Did That Happen?” (with Sam Holleran) Urban Affairs Forum. 2017.
“For the Wealthy, Citizenship at a Premium.” The Boston Review. 2016.
“Lab City: the Limits of Pop-up Problem Solving.” (with Sam Holleran) Dissent. 2015.
“Show Us Your Country: the Transformation of Macedonia’s Capital.” Dissent. 2014.
“Incendiary Politics on the Black Sea.” Dissent. 2013.
“Starchitects in Spain Left on the Plain.” Dissent. 2013.
Max Holleran 