Jake Anbinder
@jakeanbinder.bsky.social
Author of NIMBY NATION: The War on Growth That Created Our Housing Crisis and Remade American Politics (Bloomsbury, 2027). American historian and Klarman Fellow @Cornell. Learn more: JacobAnbinder.com
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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!
Please spread the news to anyone and everyone!
This is completely unprecedented from a winner of the FIFA Peace Prize
January 3, 2026 at 1:01 PM
This is completely unprecedented from a winner of the FIFA Peace Prize
My dry cleaner went from extremely low tech to extremely high tech all at once. A year ago they were cash only and hand wrote their tickets. Now there’s an app where each of my shirts is tracked like they’re making me a pizza.
December 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
My dry cleaner went from extremely low tech to extremely high tech all at once. A year ago they were cash only and hand wrote their tickets. Now there’s an app where each of my shirts is tracked like they’re making me a pizza.
Everyone knows that if you win a championship in New York, you get a parade down Broadway. I propose that if you win an NBA Cup you should get a parade down 10th Avenue.
December 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Everyone knows that if you win a championship in New York, you get a parade down Broadway. I propose that if you win an NBA Cup you should get a parade down 10th Avenue.
Something I've really come to believe is we spill oceans of ink on the question of what precise mix of policy views is politically optimal when reality shows that sufficiently charismatic candidates can get voters to agree with pretty much anything
December 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Something I've really come to believe is we spill oceans of ink on the question of what precise mix of policy views is politically optimal when reality shows that sufficiently charismatic candidates can get voters to agree with pretty much anything
“I wish for the Knicks to win a championship in my lifetime” [monkey’s paw curls]
December 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“I wish for the Knicks to win a championship in my lifetime” [monkey’s paw curls]
lol Susie Wiles is Pat Summerall's daughter?
December 17, 2025 at 3:18 AM
lol Susie Wiles is Pat Summerall's daughter?
ah yes, the New York Times, famously antagonistic toward [shuffles notes] Hollywood liberals
December 17, 2025 at 3:02 AM
ah yes, the New York Times, famously antagonistic toward [shuffles notes] Hollywood liberals
normal people: this is insane
academics: ah yes the search committee was deadlocked on a successor so they are asking the beloved emeritus prof to lecture a bit
academics: ah yes the search committee was deadlocked on a successor so they are asking the beloved emeritus prof to lecture a bit
December 16, 2025 at 12:58 AM
normal people: this is insane
academics: ah yes the search committee was deadlocked on a successor so they are asking the beloved emeritus prof to lecture a bit
academics: ah yes the search committee was deadlocked on a successor so they are asking the beloved emeritus prof to lecture a bit
Charging for Tweetdeck was the beginning of the end
I think there’s a revisionist history thing that both X and Bluesky users promote, that the exodus away from it was a direct response to the owner’s politics. For some people, I think that was true, but for more than will admit it, I think it was just a severe degradation of the user experience.
December 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Charging for Tweetdeck was the beginning of the end
Time for my annual rant about how “Hanukkah“ is the worst transliteration
December 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Time for my annual rant about how “Hanukkah“ is the worst transliteration
Time for my annual Hanukah hot take: these are not latkes. These are hash browns. If this is what you are trying to make, just admit you don’t like latkes.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Time for my annual Hanukah hot take: these are not latkes. These are hash browns. If this is what you are trying to make, just admit you don’t like latkes.
🎶I’ve never really been but I’d sure like to go 🎶
December 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🎶I’ve never really been but I’d sure like to go 🎶
Very hard to watch Staples struggle to come to terms with the fact that it’s just the Returns Store now
December 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Very hard to watch Staples struggle to come to terms with the fact that it’s just the Returns Store now
People's degree of risk aversion when it comes to air travel itineraries is quite something. Found a thread online where people are advising *against* a 5 hour layover at JFK because OP has to collect bags and recheck at a different terminal. 5 hours! They're telling him to stay overnight instead!
December 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
People's degree of risk aversion when it comes to air travel itineraries is quite something. Found a thread online where people are advising *against* a 5 hour layover at JFK because OP has to collect bags and recheck at a different terminal. 5 hours! They're telling him to stay overnight instead!
For those wondering what upstate New York is like: parking in the covered garage at the Syracuse airport doesn't prevent your car from being snowed on, it just reduces the amount somewhat.
December 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
For those wondering what upstate New York is like: parking in the covered garage at the Syracuse airport doesn't prevent your car from being snowed on, it just reduces the amount somewhat.
the answer clearly is that the Bay Area's natural beauty is like the Ark of the Covenant; gazing at it without divine authorization drives one to insanity
my most parochial take is that a lot of national dysfunction and elite pathologies genuinely do primarily spring from roots in the SF Bay Area. like why do so many tech sector types have such insane opinions about the efficacy of the govt?
December 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
the answer clearly is that the Bay Area's natural beauty is like the Ark of the Covenant; gazing at it without divine authorization drives one to insanity
Lots of stories out there about people outside academia not understanding this world but my mom has a humanities PhD and even she sometimes texts me like "what if you just wrote to the Ford Foundation and asked for a job"
December 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Lots of stories out there about people outside academia not understanding this world but my mom has a humanities PhD and even she sometimes texts me like "what if you just wrote to the Ford Foundation and asked for a job"
If you want to know what life is like in this part of New York, 80% of the local ads on the Syracuse CBS affiliate are for roofers. The remaining 20% for heating companies.
November 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
If you want to know what life is like in this part of New York, 80% of the local ads on the Syracuse CBS affiliate are for roofers. The remaining 20% for heating companies.
Old enough to remember when Black Friday meant sleeping in tents for $100 plasma TVs or whatever and mistreating low-wage workers and there was a lot of hand-wringing over What This Said About America
November 29, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Old enough to remember when Black Friday meant sleeping in tents for $100 plasma TVs or whatever and mistreating low-wage workers and there was a lot of hand-wringing over What This Said About America
I believe it was @freedaaron.bsky.social who tweeted this originally but good luck to everyone rediscovering this weekend that their parents have radically worse food prep safety standards than they do
November 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I believe it was @freedaaron.bsky.social who tweeted this originally but good luck to everyone rediscovering this weekend that their parents have radically worse food prep safety standards than they do
What’s remarkable is how persistent this has remained even across all the changes in planning teaching and practice that have taken place since activist planners started to note this in the mid 1960s
The full time job of the modal person with the title of "city planner" in the US is to be a steward of segregation.
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
What’s remarkable is how persistent this has remained even across all the changes in planning teaching and practice that have taken place since activist planners started to note this in the mid 1960s
There was a distinct period of time when American real estate developers were like ”you know what screams classy? The Welsh language”
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
There was a distinct period of time when American real estate developers were like ”you know what screams classy? The Welsh language”
There's no greater evidence of an NFL coaching hivemind than the fact that the pendulum swung violently ~5 years ago from punting on 4th and 1 so you didn't look stupid in the eyes of your colleagues to going for it on 4th and long so you don't look insufficiently "aggressive"
November 24, 2025 at 12:43 AM
There's no greater evidence of an NFL coaching hivemind than the fact that the pendulum swung violently ~5 years ago from punting on 4th and 1 so you didn't look stupid in the eyes of your colleagues to going for it on 4th and long so you don't look insufficiently "aggressive"
Props to Coors for getting decades of advertising material out of the idea that "our beer is really cold," a premise that makes only makes sense if you've had a few too many
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Props to Coors for getting decades of advertising material out of the idea that "our beer is really cold," a premise that makes only makes sense if you've had a few too many