Jake Anbinder

Author of NIMBY NATION (Bloomsbury, 2027). American historian and Klarman Fellow @Cornell. Learn more:

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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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congrat's everyone

[The Ithaca Voice @ithacavoice]

Cornell Heights land once slated for apartments now eyed for luxury home https://t.co/CQvHAZzTzK

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at least I have a good slide to explain "hegemony" now

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this is what the humanities are up against

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@MattZeitlin MBTA communities law in Massachusetts will, eventually, but also has invited a lot of sandbagging

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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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do we think he pronounces his name "Beria"?

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Which airport do we think has the highest proportion of PreCheck passengers? DCA? HPN? SNA?

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@erikmbaker highly entrepreneurial of you

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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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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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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

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

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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@DavidAstinWalsh never

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@MattZeitlin the one for-profit organization that's ever invited me to speak ghosted me after I asked to be paid

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if by "rare nature enclave" you mean "evocative of the garden section of a Home Depot"

[Spectrum News NY1 @NY1]

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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@drumm_colin "centrally remote" I've heard us called

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@YAppelbaum https://t.co/3PiN8hWzJc

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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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@MattZeitlin what time of year did he go

[Charles Petersen @p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n]

The American Dream in 2026: around 25 percent of all homes in coastal California are acquired via inheritance.