Jake Anbinder
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American historian and Klarman Fellow @Cornell . I write about NIMBYs (but I don't call them that). I only check this site intermittently now—reach me via email.
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What is historic preservation doing to American cities? My latest in
@TheAtlantic
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The "I will get two covid shots, but not three covid shots" crowd remains perhaps the strangest of them all
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Something interesting I've noticed teaching is Gen Z just does not use Microsoft Word, period. When you ask them to submit .doc files they're all converting them from Google Docs or Pages.
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"bucket list" was invented in 2007 by the writers of a very forgettable movie
finding out the term “Debbie downer” was coined on SNL is one of those real facts that do not seem congruent with the world
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Occasional reminder from an American historian that "voter registration" originated as a voter suppression tactic
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We're at this weird part of the vaccine push where depending on where they live people are either like "the vaccine man came down my block today merrily tossing out vaccines" or "the state estimates I am in category 6Qβ with estimated appointment date June 2073"
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people: lol why would anyone get a humanities degree
also people: ugh why does the CDC seem to struggle with articulating a synthesis of a handful of complex concepts
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If you're worried that your historiographic claim is too bold remember Lin-Manuel Miranda said "America forgot him" about a guy who is on the money
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Have you tried creating a footnote in Google Docs? Your computer catches on fire.
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If a college describes itself as "Judeo-Christian" I can venture a guess as to how many Judeos it has
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ah yes MIT, that notorious feeder school to Barstool
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The key to understanding the "Maus" thing—and I really do mean this—is that these are people for whom Jews mostly exist in theory, the same way that in third grade you learn there's a thing called tectonic plates
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My view on academics' photos is the same as my view on academics' websites: the fancier they look the more suspicious you should be
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It really is worth repeating that 500,000 deaths is beyond what basically any model predicted except for the insane Imperial College one that we all lost our shit over
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it is a tragedy how the media has failed to convey just how broad the consensus on this is. 83% of Americans don't agree on anything.
WASHINGTON (AP) — AP-NORC poll: 83% of Americans concerned lifting restrictions in their area will lead to additional COVID-19 infections.
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Things make more sense when you realize 99% of the discourse about college admissions comes from this region
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I have concluded a rival study that suggests $60k stipends and a functioning job market
Ph.D students suffer from anxiety and
#depression
at rates that far exceed the general population. A recent study suggests that mindfulness interventions—a form of exercise for the brain—may help.
@ScienceCareers
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People saying "this is obviously because Google Docs is better" are simply revealing that most of their word processing consists of shuffling five page memos around a team of a dozen people over and over
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frankly the case is so strong for using one's limited time and money only to go to France and Italy that Britain's lucky it even gets included here
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If only there were some sort of greater meaning behind the two most important San Franciscans in US political history essentially declaring they will die in office rather than let a new generation govern
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Not only should Biden not attend Charles's coronation, he should personally make an appearance at the swearing-in of some very low level bureaucrat in Ireland
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a 4% decrease in rent is virtually unprecedented in the modern history of major coastal cities and would help millions
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What profession has lost the most prestige as a result of its members having access to twitter?
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The “Is $150K a lot of money?” debate is pretty boring but it is relevant to housing politics in how it highlights that this country has a massive upper-middle class that is perpetually convinced it is impoverished
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is it in dispute that the median Harvard student of 2023 is far more academically gifted than that of 1950
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This is the same root cause as the appropriation of Holocaust tropes among antivaxxers. The lack of shame in the appropriation is because it is to them really nothing more than a historical abstraction.
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People referring to me as a "Harvard professor" as a result of this thread" please send a printout of the tweet, with the "Harvard professor" part underlined or highlighted, to Hiring Committee, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA 02138
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The funny thing writing about “campus culture” is it’s an incredibly small minority of students who protest anything with any regularity; most people are trying to figure out the optimal balance of studying and drinking
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I like how every "I love bodegas!" story almost invariably involves some element where the bodega fails to serve a basic local grocery need
Walked into the bodega and asked if they sold butter. “Sorry, no,” but then a pause, “How much do you need? Just cooking dinner?”
Love you, New York City.
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Also it's not a cost thing—Harvard gives you Office for free. Though I'm not sure if this is common knowledge.
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Academia is known for its infighting, but at the end of the day we can all agree it's very important to know the cities where books were published
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Sometimes I think I'm going crazy but I can't think of anything this trend in truck design is supposed to communicate except "I can run you over if you bother me"
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All you need to know about Bernie's former national press secretary arguing with Chomsky on a podcast is there is a universe where Bernie, having chosen a different press secretary, is about to win a presidential election.
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for me it is the fact that people get fast food delivered via Uber Eats
I think my biggest disconnect with American society is how much I don't understand Starbucks's popularity. Their regular coffee isn't good, their food is even worse, and I don't get wasting $8 and 750 calories on some coffee drink creation when you could simply get a milkshake.
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A few twitter accounts do not leftism make, but it's also true that if your reaction to the most successful left-of-center president in sixty years is to call him a fascist, no one's ever going to coalition with you in the future
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The main reason RBG didn't retire can be found in that documentary from 2018. It's not that she thought she was immortal, it's that she had developed so few other interests that without her job she thought she would die
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I could take or leave a lot of the humor in Parks & Rec to be honest but it's pretty clear that, like Hamilton and West Wing, what people don't like about it in the post-Obama era is simply that it's enthusiastic
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The Titanic sinking has to have the biggest gap between "pop culture significance" and "significance as defined by historians" of any event of the 20th century
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crypto ads noticeably hesitant to explain what, exactly, the product is
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European cities didn't "make better choices" on cars, they emerged from a world war that left them impoverished then as soon as they got prosperous they had an energy crisis
What unpopular urbanism opinion will land you in this position?
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Californians will be like "we need to protect this neighborhood's character forever" and the neighborhood looks like this
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Was thinking tonight about how there is basically no political effort going on in any expensive US city to tackle cost of living in any comprehensive way
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Need a name for the syndrome, unique to New Yorkers, of romanticizing signs of the city's poor quality of life as part of its "charm"
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it's wild as a nineties kid being in that tiny sliver of the population that grew up being told to consider the credibility of online sources
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actually tik tok is one of the only sources providing current updates that aren't sanitized by western imperial interests, and that guy is a genocide apologist
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you're telling me the billionaire car manufacturer is also an anti-Semite? man who could've seen that one coming.
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I cannot convey enough that 75 years ago we had weird shit like this everywhere. Unfortunately in the '70s we developed a deep and incorrigible sense of shame as a nation and now only Vegas gets the cool weird shit.
It seems the MSG Sphere ins Las Vegas even stares at planes passing by, when in the giant emoji outfit
[📹 matti9233]
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Found a TikTok account that posts pictures of Sears etc. catalogues from the '80s and '90s and what stands out is just how much the price of major consumer goods has gone down. It's no wonder you don't see vacuum or TV repair stores anymore.
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What Clarence Thomas grasped better than anyone is that the Supreme Court is, by virtue of its insulation from popular pressure, by far the most calvinball branch of government. The whole system essentially relies on the justices self-regulating.
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One of the unsettling things about "Bob's Burgers" is architecturally the show is clearly set in San Francisco but the characters are all equally clearly from New Jersey
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in many American cities
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A project of common interest to liberals and leftists alike over the coming years should be to grapple with the problem of ~35-40% of Americans being ok with fascism. Not in a JD Vance "we have to understand them" way, but in a "we have to minimize their power at all costs" way.
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People think Chris Rufo wants Claudine Gay fired but it's pretty clear to me he wants exactly the opposite: a reaction from the academy that proves liberals' purported academic standards are made up and it's just team sports all the way down
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What the half-assed Oppenheimer takes are underscoring is how many people now see the role of the US historian as destroyer of idols, and anything that isn't overtly idol-destroying must necessarily be idolatry.
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Booker: vote Biden
Castro: vote Biden
Warren: vote Biden
Obama: vote Biden
AOC: vote Biden
Chomsky: vote Biden
Elevator person: vote Biden
Calamari: vote Biden
Twitter: i canNot beLieVe tHe DNC wOuLD aLloW—
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How until ~2000ish it was a given that there were long stretches of time when people were not going to be able to communicate with you
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"Actually, Greenstein is not an 'Ethnic' name," I explain to one of the tsar's soldiers as I am impaled by his bayonet
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disdaining incrementalism is the privilege of those for whom the increment is unimportant
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lol I'm reading a book from the late '70s that says the "conventional rule of thumb" for your homebuying budget should be 2x your annual household income
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The logic of public participation politics: in a neighborhood with 200,000 people, 44 constitute a majority
It's in poor taste for the
@nytimes
to mislead the public with a clickbait title. Out of the 58 people who attended the LPC Public comment period, only 14 from the community wanted to tear down the building—most of them congregants. That's 4-1 against the hardship. 4
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I feel like he may be overestimating the American appetite for a constant barrage of this sort of thing
Prince Harry said his brother Prince William told him when they attended the same high school that he should “pretend we don’t know each other.”
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implicit guarantee of the absence of minorities except as service staff
what is the deal with Americans and suddenly liking dense, walkable urban development when it's a tourist attraction?
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The enormous reaction to omicron now vs. the relative disinterest in delta in August is really proof of how it has material consequences that all of our country's journalists live in one city
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"having mocked this guy's appearance to my 50,000 followers, his friends are now mad at me for some reason"
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This must be a national crisis for Canada, a country whose entire identity consists of not being as harmful as the US
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imagine looking at San Francisco, a city with like three Black people left, little stucco houses worth $3 million, an underground market of the remaining rent stabilized apartments, and thinking that you've successfully implemented "anti-gentrification zoning"
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In Republicans’ ideal world Republicans control 100% of the government. In Democrats’ ideal world Democrats control 50.1%.
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apparently the 'no more than two shots' crowd has found this tweet and...I am unimpressed
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3M is incredible. A whole company that is like "we need to make things more sticky" or "we need to make things less sticky"
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small brain: bribes are bad
big brain: they should've done it legally through fancy donations
galaxy brain: they should've done it super-legally by exploiting structures of socioeconomic discrimination and enrolling their kids in high-performing suburban high schools
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Everyone in Hopper paintings looks like they're living through covid
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I respect E-ZPass NY's dedication to the idea that web design has not improved since 1999
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"We must continue to let drivers mow people down because I cannot conceive of a world in which the driving laws will ever be enforced equitably" is really the purest form of left antistatism. Like, if that's your bar how do you expect the government to run a healthcare system.
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“What do you do?”
I’m a historian.
“What kind of history?”
"My dissertation is about not-in-my-backyard politics in wealthy cities and the making of the modern urban housing crisis."
"Oh that's interesting. These developers are putting up terrible condos in my neighborhood."
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I think what drives people nuts about Blackrock investing in residential real estate is it gives away the whole game
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Across 250 years of history the median SCOTUS majority opinion is like "it violates the right to contract of nine year olds to prohibit them from mining lead"
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Perhaps a system that allows the most insane thousandth of the population to show up and co-opt various public proceedings isn't really very democratic
Hostile school board meetings across the country are prompting members to ask, ‘Why am I doing this?’
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so if two different people applied for the same apartment the landlord would choose based on...whoever has the higher income?
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Soccer is the only sport where people are like "it was a brilliant match, a fine example of the craft" and you're like oh what was the score and they're like "oh there was no score"
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the highest and lowest points in the continental US are in the same county
What is a fact that sounds like a shitpost but is 100 percent real?
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There is a flatness to the way that Biles's situation is described as being about "mental health." She has lived through the total collapse of her sport in the US. The ex-head of US gymnastics is awaiting trial. The coach of the 2012 team killed himself rather than face charges!
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YIMBYism has been successful enough that the criticism is apparently now "yeah but it doesn't lower rents 25%"
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historians will note that between the "thin ____ line" flags and the increasingly complex pride flags both sides of the political aisle in the 2020s experienced flag creep
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I've become convinced this is a psyop. No one could be stupid enough to think that making you miss a flight is a way to convert you to a political cause
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I assume what's going on here is Cape Cod landlords who made bank during the pandemic thought they could hike their prices 20%/year forever but now people are going to Europe instead
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When I used to do model congress in high school sometimes you'd write up some law that was like "poverty shall be abolished" with no follow up and a lot of people remain at this stage of their development in terms of how they think policymaking works
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me, dumb: we should build 1,000s more apartments everywhere for everyone.
you, an intellectual: ah but you see, these six buildings that recently got built are fancy. what now of your precious "theory"
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USPS now in possession of the addresses of the 10 million most chronically Online Americans
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The US is a weirdly morning-centric country IMO. The west coast is particularly bad, for obvious reasons.
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The essence of the "lunch is $20" tweet is the post-2020 material interests of the podcasting class are no longer moving in the same direction as those of the burger-flipping class
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"Chicago-style" (good):
- hot dogs
- citation
- architecture
- urban rail
"Chicago-style" (bad):
- corruption
- pizza
- suburban rail
- segregation
- police misconduct
- accent
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historians: i would like job plz
economists: you cannot prove that my new yacht in any way influenced my recent NBER paper on yachtbuilding
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Harvard students returned 124 positives last week out of just under 27,000 tests. Testing group is 93% vaxxed. "Lots of asymptomatic covid floating around the vaxxed population" theory not holding up well.
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It is a huge pet peeve of mine that the press always frames these articles as "worker shortage" pieces and not "you need to raise your wages" pieces
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The weirdest walking city is Las Vegas where you're like I can see the building from here how far could it be
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Pittsburgh in general has to have the best skyline in the US relative to the city's overall importance. It's like the anti-San Jose.
Does PNC Park have the best backdrop in sports?
What are the other contenders?
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