Jake Anbinder

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!

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

this is what the humanities are up against

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

has any blue state passed a housing bill that led to increased housing production

NY DMV customer service agent on the phone with me sounds like she's driving, which I guess is nothing if not on-brand

do we think he pronounces his name "Beria"?

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

@erikmbaker highly entrepreneurial of you

I may be mistaken, but I believe I am the first person working off the tenure track to win this award in its half-century existence. I hope this will help put to rest the myth that historians struggle to secure permanent teaching positions because their work is inadequate.

I am extremely excited to share that my book Make Your Own Job received the 2026 Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians. It is a real honor. oah.org/2026/03/26/oah…

The GOP is not a party of Iran hawks as much as it's a party of "I like whatever Trump does"

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.

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

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.

@DavidAstinWalsh never

Ever walk through a nice but not insanely wealthy neighborhood and just intuitively know everyone who lives there is over 70 because there’s no way any normal person under the age of 50 could have ever afforded a house there?

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

being an academic or think tank guy is so cool, you can charge god knows how much to have a conference call with an investment bank, just gab for a bit and get paid

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

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

@YAppelbaum youtube.com/watch?v=TWcJ_X…

If there's a consistent morality in animated films, it's that people shouldn't be confined by tradition—but that neighborhoods should never change.

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

@MattZeitlin what time of year did he go

apparently the only time wittgenstein visited america was a 10 week vist to cornell in 1949, meaning that the most important philosopher of the 20th century's sole impression of the united states was ithaca.

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

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/2026/03/…