Judge Glock is the senior director of policy and research at the Cicero Institute, a nonpartisan think tank based in Austin, Texas. He was formerly a visiting professor of economics at West Virginia University. He writes about local government, housing, finance, and transportation, with a perspective informed by his work in economic history.

Glock's work has been featured in National Affairs, Tax Notes, the Journal of American History, NPR, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, among other places. He is the author of the book The Dead Pledge: The Origins of the Mortgage Market and Federal Bailouts, 1913-1939, published in 2021 by Columbia University Press. He received his Ph.D. in history with a focus on economic history from Rutgers University.