Author of NIMBY NATION (Bloomsbury, 2027). American historian and Klarman Fellow @Cornell. Learn more: JacobAnbinder.com
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11 Dec 2024
Thrilled to announce that my book NIMBY NATION: The War on Growth That Created Our Housing Crisis and Remade American Politics, is under contract with Bloomsbury and slated for publication in fall 2027.
Please spread the news to anyone and everyone!
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has to be the least time spent in the lead in finals games of any NBA champion
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The only thing more insane than the fact that the Spurs had 30 second half points is if they have 32 they win the game
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congrat's everyone
Cornell Heights land once slated for apartments now eyed for luxury home ithacavoice.org/2026/05/corn…
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NY DMV customer service agent on the phone with me sounds like she's driving, which I guess is nothing if not on-brand
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Which airport do we think has the highest proportion of PreCheck passengers? DCA? HPN? SNA?
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The GOP is not a party of Iran hawks as much as it's a party of "I like whatever Trump does"
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I think the word "reading" gets thrown around on this issue a lot, in that I think most people could read and summarize a New York Times article but many people could not critique it in the sense of discussing context, bias, significance, that sort of thing
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Put another way, most people are not humanities majors. What are seniors in humanities majors good at that freshmen without a major are not good at? Exactly that.
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Mar 25
It's NOT my job to educate you. My job is to *glances at my academic CV*
uh oh
*Frantically starts flipping through pages*
uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh.
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if by "rare nature enclave" you mean "evocative of the garden section of a Home Depot"
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In his final days in office, former Mayor Eric Adams sought to shield Elizabeth Street Garden as NYC parkland, so that it couldn’t be developed into affordable housing.
The garden has sat as a rare nature enclave in one of the busiest parts of Manhattan for decades.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani must now decide whether to honor Adam’s move or press ahead with affordable housing plans as he promised to do so in his mayoral campaign.
@AnnikaPergament explains,
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A fact that doesn't sound true is San Francisco lost a greater proportion of its population from peak to trough than New York City
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The American Dream in 2026: around 25 percent of all homes in coastal California are acquired via inheritance.
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Paul Ehrlich built his reputation on radical solutions to avoid what he believed was the planet’s imminent destruction, but there’s something about human ingenuity that the now-deceased scientist failed to understand, @JakeAnbinder argues: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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"In its day, The Population Bomb was omnipresent....Ehrlich appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson at least 18 times, at a time when it was not unusual for a third of the country’s entire television audience to be watching." theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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