ACLS Leading Edge Fellow @equitablegrowth. Author of NIMBY NATION (Bloomsbury, 2027). American historian and Visiting Scholar @Cornell.
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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!
Delighted to announce I have started a new role as ACLS Leading Edge Fellow and Manager of Academic Engagement and Impact at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
I am excited to return to the policy world, particularly through this one-of-a-kind ACLS program which creates opportunities for recent PhDs in the social sciences and humanities to work for nonprofit organizations. acls.org/programs/leading-ed…
One of the weirder internet myths is that the Oklahoma panhandle exists because Texas ceded it in order to keep slavery legal, and it's weird because it requires knowing several different things about the sectional crisis but kind of mashing them together incorrectly
Brings me no pleasure to announce that the Giants beating the Cowboys in week 1 feels as good and possibly better than the Knicks championship
important to consider that there are only so many jobs one can do if one is named Pericles Lewis and dean of Yale College is one of them
UNIVERSITY | Pericles Lewis, who is being considered for a second term as Yale College dean, came under fire last year for unpopular budgetary decisions. Students were skeptical that their criticism of his leadership would affect the outcome of his review. yaledailynews.com/articles/a…
same is true if you are named W. Marichal Gentry, who was a dean when I was there yaledailynews.com/articles/m…
I've never liked the ESD regions map. How can Ithaca, which is on a Finger Lake, not be in the Finger Lakes?
Niagara Falls definitely up there among places that feel most abandoned
I love this map! It shows all the US cities that used to have more than 100,000 residents but now don't anymore. Cool US history and geography trivia. Source: buff.ly/3yM5JOa
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Excited to announce a new speakers series on government effectiveness at @ISPSYale this fall that I'm organizing with @ProfSchleich and @ZLiscow. We have a great set of speakers: @ZaneKashner, @esoltas, @JakeAnbinder, @laurayww.
The synthesis here is that the goal of the policies in question is not so much nature preservation as urbanization prevention
One of my hottest takes — it makes sense for public policy to preserve nature as a priority but farms aren’t nature!
slowboring.com/p/farms-arent…
interesting point of contention between Mamdani and Bernie (historically, at least)
NEW: The push for open primaries in NYC, which @ZohranKMamdani opposes, has the support of Emma Bloomberg. Her data company is providing info to the group agitating for the change. @MikeBloomberg has long supported open primaries. W/ @JeffCMays
nytimes.com/2026/07/13/nyreg…
