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!
The Ravens job is the most appealing job up for grabs this year, thus I predict it will go to the top available candidate: John Harbaugh
January 7, 2026 at 2:01 AM
The Ravens job is the most appealing job up for grabs this year, thus I predict it will go to the top available candidate: John Harbaugh
Savannah is a little less twee
January 7, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Savannah is a little less twee
Drove by last week and noticed how dreary it looks now
January 6, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Drove by last week and noticed how dreary it looks now
Langston Blvd? That was mine growing up. Lost my first tooth in that PlayPlace.
January 6, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Langston Blvd? That was mine growing up. Lost my first tooth in that PlayPlace.
My printer now mostly exists to print return labels
January 5, 2026 at 7:12 PM
My printer now mostly exists to print return labels
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.
Like, Mamdani's success is not because he captured the ideological zeitgeist. Nor was Obama's. They're good looking, they're good on the stump, and they're good at synthesizing a lot of conflicting opinions into something that sounds good enough to enough people. That's the power of ideology.
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Like, Mamdani's success is not because he captured the ideological zeitgeist. Nor was Obama's. They're good looking, they're good on the stump, and they're good at synthesizing a lot of conflicting opinions into something that sounds good enough to enough people. That's the power of ideology.
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?
people online every day are like "this one newspaper, WHICH I DON'T READ OR LIKE, did not publish the exact stories I want in the exact wording I demand, and THIS is what's wrong with America"
December 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
people online every day are like "this one newspaper, WHICH I DON'T READ OR LIKE, did not publish the exact stories I want in the exact wording I demand, and THIS is what's wrong with America"
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
No one cares about the stupid geminated kaf. Certainly no one in the Anglosphere knows thats why there are two k’s. It’s pretentious and confusing.
December 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
No one cares about the stupid geminated kaf. Certainly no one in the Anglosphere knows thats why there are two k’s. It’s pretentious and confusing.
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
Hash browns are delicious. I will not slander hash browns as this scope creep is not hash browns’ fault. But no one makes ramen instead of matzo ball soup for Passover because they think it tastes better.
December 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Hash browns are delicious. I will not slander hash browns as this scope creep is not hash browns’ fault. But no one makes ramen instead of matzo ball soup for Passover because they think it tastes better.
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!