Matthew Yglesias
@mattyglesias.bsky.social
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Still thinking about this article. It’s always been a sore spot in YIMBY circles that so many progressive foundations pour money into NIMBYism, and I’m glad it’s finally being aired in public. Keep talking about it. www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
Philanthropy Needs to Pick a Side on the Housing Construction Debate
Despite California’s severe housing shortage, foundations are still funding on the wrong side of the housing fight there, guest author Ned Resnikoff writes.
www.insidephilanthropy.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Still thinking about this article. It’s always been a sore spot in YIMBY circles that so many progressive foundations pour money into NIMBYism, and I’m glad it’s finally being aired in public. Keep talking about it. www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
Musk has really managed to make people hate Tesla
November 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Musk has really managed to make people hate Tesla
Friends of the Earth 1979.
Note that the very existence of big utilities is bad.
The ideal is energy efficiency + decentralized renewables but coal is preferred to zero-emissions hydro and nuclear because the target here is industrial-scale enterprises not pollution.
Note that the very existence of big utilities is bad.
The ideal is energy efficiency + decentralized renewables but coal is preferred to zero-emissions hydro and nuclear because the target here is industrial-scale enterprises not pollution.
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Friends of the Earth 1979.
Note that the very existence of big utilities is bad.
The ideal is energy efficiency + decentralized renewables but coal is preferred to zero-emissions hydro and nuclear because the target here is industrial-scale enterprises not pollution.
Note that the very existence of big utilities is bad.
The ideal is energy efficiency + decentralized renewables but coal is preferred to zero-emissions hydro and nuclear because the target here is industrial-scale enterprises not pollution.
"New York is not special, not in 2025, when it’s one of many megacities with large subway systems. It’s just solipsistic."
pedestrianobservations.com/2025/11/20/n...
pedestrianobservations.com/2025/11/20/n...
New York Isn’t Special
A week ago, we published a short note on driver-only metro trains, known in New York as one-person train operation or OPTO. New York is nearly unique globally in running metro trains with both a dr…
pedestrianobservations.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"New York is not special, not in 2025, when it’s one of many megacities with large subway systems. It’s just solipsistic."
pedestrianobservations.com/2025/11/20/n...
pedestrianobservations.com/2025/11/20/n...
Literally in the name
China is the center. Everywhere else is the periphery.
November 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Literally in the name
As a member of the “has an uncle who was an MIT professor” community, I’m concerned that Trump is making us look bad with these kind of false claims
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
As a member of the “has an uncle who was an MIT professor” community, I’m concerned that Trump is making us look bad with these kind of false claims
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
What it actually means for a trait to be highly heritable is often misunderstood and is usually not actually the topic that’s most relevant for policy.
www.slowboring.com/p/missing-th...
www.slowboring.com/p/missing-th...
Missing the point about heredity
Plus Australian climate policy, the nature of American history, and some thoughts on bail reform
www.slowboring.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
What it actually means for a trait to be highly heritable is often misunderstood and is usually not actually the topic that’s most relevant for policy.
www.slowboring.com/p/missing-th...
www.slowboring.com/p/missing-th...
One thing I think about in terms of AI and jobs is that driverless metro technology has existed for many years now, works perfectly well, and is only implemented in a handful of lines around the world.
November 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
One thing I think about in terms of AI and jobs is that driverless metro technology has existed for many years now, works perfectly well, and is only implemented in a handful of lines around the world.
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I don't think they'd get any more votes for this, but I'd vote for a candidate who promises to get rid of the stupid "turkey pardon."
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I don't think they'd get any more votes for this, but I'd vote for a candidate who promises to get rid of the stupid "turkey pardon."
Now we’re cooking with electromagnetic induction!
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Now we’re cooking with electromagnetic induction!
Peak Starmer would be to commission a report on nuclear energy, have it produce a set of visionary recommendations for reform, and then not do the reforms.
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Peak Starmer would be to commission a report on nuclear energy, have it produce a set of visionary recommendations for reform, and then not do the reforms.
A quarter century of covering various Larry Summers controversies
www.slowboring.com/p/ive-been-c...
www.slowboring.com/p/ive-been-c...
I've been covering Larry Summers controversies for most of my life
I'm sick of it, and also I think he's been right about some stuff
www.slowboring.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
A quarter century of covering various Larry Summers controversies
www.slowboring.com/p/ive-been-c...
www.slowboring.com/p/ive-been-c...
Deaths vs births
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Deaths vs births
TDS Watch: First the libs are mad that Trump is killing random dudes in boats as part of a fake war with Venezuela, now he’s making it a real war and they’re mad about that too.
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
TDS Watch: First the libs are mad that Trump is killing random dudes in boats as part of a fake war with Venezuela, now he’s making it a real war and they’re mad about that too.
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<labour post election meeting>
-ok guys we won and the economy is a basket case but we promised not to raise taxes and that puts us in a real bind with a low growth medium inflation economy
-what if we just keep coming up with stupider and stupider ideas until we're not in charge anymore
-ok guys we won and the economy is a basket case but we promised not to raise taxes and that puts us in a real bind with a low growth medium inflation economy
-what if we just keep coming up with stupider and stupider ideas until we're not in charge anymore
Trevor Phillips proposes banning "remittances" (ie: imposing currency/exchange controls on international cash transfers by foreign nationals from Britain). He says this would disincentivise immigration, in a Times piece saying the Home Secretary needs to go [much] further
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
<labour post election meeting>
-ok guys we won and the economy is a basket case but we promised not to raise taxes and that puts us in a real bind with a low growth medium inflation economy
-what if we just keep coming up with stupider and stupider ideas until we're not in charge anymore
-ok guys we won and the economy is a basket case but we promised not to raise taxes and that puts us in a real bind with a low growth medium inflation economy
-what if we just keep coming up with stupider and stupider ideas until we're not in charge anymore
I started blogging when I was a junior in college, and I've been covering various Larry Summers Controversies for even longer than that ... 3,000 words coming tomorrow.
November 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I started blogging when I was a junior in college, and I've been covering various Larry Summers Controversies for even longer than that ... 3,000 words coming tomorrow.
A lot of contemporary cultural output is cynical IP management — a company buys an artist’s old song catalogue and orders up a biopic to try to revive interest in their new assets.
www.slowboring.com/p/the-hidden...
www.slowboring.com/p/the-hidden...
The hidden cause of cultural stagnation
Long copyrights incentivize IP management over creativity
www.slowboring.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
A lot of contemporary cultural output is cynical IP management — a company buys an artist’s old song catalogue and orders up a biopic to try to revive interest in their new assets.
www.slowboring.com/p/the-hidden...
www.slowboring.com/p/the-hidden...
There are people in Maine burning coal for home heat
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
There are people in Maine burning coal for home heat
This is a very cool paper with a clever identification strategy to test the causal impact of the opioid epidemic on various political outcomes.
A key point that’s not in the abstract —causal mechanism is voters agreed with GOP tough on crime rhetoric and policy.
A key point that’s not in the abstract —causal mechanism is voters agreed with GOP tough on crime rhetoric and policy.
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects of the Opioid Epidemic,” by Arteaga (@caroartc.bsky.social) and Barone (@vickybarone.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects Of the Opioid Epidemic
Abstract. In this paper, we establish a causal connection between two of the most salient social developments in the United States over the past decades: t
doi.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This is a very cool paper with a clever identification strategy to test the causal impact of the opioid epidemic on various political outcomes.
A key point that’s not in the abstract —causal mechanism is voters agreed with GOP tough on crime rhetoric and policy.
A key point that’s not in the abstract —causal mechanism is voters agreed with GOP tough on crime rhetoric and policy.
I read all the bubble takes but I’m still buying stocks.
November 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I read all the bubble takes but I’m still buying stocks.
"per square foot, affordable housing cost more 1.5 times as much to build in California as market-rate housing"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | America’s Housing Crisis, in One Chart
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"per square foot, affordable housing cost more 1.5 times as much to build in California as market-rate housing"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
It’s not just total randos either.
I have no problem with Mamdani having a friendly meeting with the president but the people jizzing themselves over the prospect of illiberal horseshoe politics are a big problem.
I have no problem with Mamdani having a friendly meeting with the president but the people jizzing themselves over the prospect of illiberal horseshoe politics are a big problem.
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
It’s not just total randos either.
I have no problem with Mamdani having a friendly meeting with the president but the people jizzing themselves over the prospect of illiberal horseshoe politics are a big problem.
I have no problem with Mamdani having a friendly meeting with the president but the people jizzing themselves over the prospect of illiberal horseshoe politics are a big problem.
November 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I know all the political scientists on BlueSky are committed to hating on me, but I didn’t think it would be controversial to observe that a lot of left-of-liberalism political ideas have gained traction over the past ten years.
I don't think this is a correct description of America's party system.
November 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I know all the political scientists on BlueSky are committed to hating on me, but I didn’t think it would be controversial to observe that a lot of left-of-liberalism political ideas have gained traction over the past ten years.