Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social
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Roosevelt Institute Fellow
Working on a book about cities for Island Press.
ned at resnikoffconsulting dot com
Urban policy consultant: http://resnikoffconsulting.com/
Roosevelt Institute Fellow
Working on a book about cities for Island Press.
ned at resnikoffconsulting dot com
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Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social
· Dec 11
I can't tell you how excited I am to work with Heather Boyer and the Island Press team, which really gets what I'm trying to do with this projects and has published more than a few of my favorite books on urbanism.
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For my newsletter, I wrote about "heritage Americans" and the real meaning of nationhood. publiccomment.blog/p/the-great-...
The Great Retcon
The invention of "heritage Americans"
publiccomment.blog
February 15, 2026 at 9:34 PM
For my newsletter, I wrote about "heritage Americans" and the real meaning of nationhood. publiccomment.blog/p/the-great-...
Do I have any mutuals who are professional graphic designers and who I could trouble offline for five minutes of free feedback on something.
February 17, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Do I have any mutuals who are professional graphic designers and who I could trouble offline for five minutes of free feedback on something.
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"Lincoln, in other words, rejects the notion that American nationhood is rooted in genetic ancestry. It is instead rooted in a shared creed based on a particular conception of liberty and political equality."
Good stuff as always from @resnikoff.bsky.social
Good stuff as always from @resnikoff.bsky.social
For my newsletter, I wrote about "heritage Americans" and the real meaning of nationhood. publiccomment.blog/p/the-great-...
The Great Retcon
The invention of "heritage Americans"
publiccomment.blog
February 16, 2026 at 7:06 PM
"Lincoln, in other words, rejects the notion that American nationhood is rooted in genetic ancestry. It is instead rooted in a shared creed based on a particular conception of liberty and political equality."
Good stuff as always from @resnikoff.bsky.social
Good stuff as always from @resnikoff.bsky.social
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“National identities such as ‘French’ and ‘Italian’ were things that had to be invented, and they were often imposed through military or state power.” @resnikoff.bsky.social publiccomment.blog/p/the-great-...
The Great Retcon
The invention of "heritage Americans"
publiccomment.blog
February 16, 2026 at 10:57 AM
“National identities such as ‘French’ and ‘Italian’ were things that had to be invented, and they were often imposed through military or state power.” @resnikoff.bsky.social publiccomment.blog/p/the-great-...
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This very smart post leaders to a much broader point: if the identitarian right is going to invent an exclusionary racist American heritage and history, then its opponents will need to their own positive, full throated statement of American heritage and history.
For my newsletter, I wrote about "heritage Americans" and the real meaning of nationhood. publiccomment.blog/p/the-great-...
The Great Retcon
The invention of "heritage Americans"
publiccomment.blog
February 16, 2026 at 12:39 PM
This very smart post leaders to a much broader point: if the identitarian right is going to invent an exclusionary racist American heritage and history, then its opponents will need to their own positive, full throated statement of American heritage and history.
![One of the ways you can tell this is all code is by the combination of prolixity and imprecision that tends to accompany these paeans to the American race. Listening to them, you might sometimes find yourself paraphrasing Liz Lemon and blurting out, “J.D., just say Aryan, this is taking forever.” And indeed, when less adroit Nazis like Elon Musk try to circle around a clearer articulation of what they mean by American heritage, they end up making hilariously ahistorical claims about, for example, the “English-Scotts-Irish origin” of American culture. (“Scotch-Irish” is, in the words of one historian, “an Americanism, generally unknown in Scotland and Ireland and rarely used by British historians.”)
The fact is, there’s very little basis for any of this stuff, at least if you’re looking for historical roots deeper than the middle of the nineteenth century. “Scotch-Irish” as a self-descriptor appears to have only entered common usage after large-scale Irish immigration to the United States began in the 1840s; incumbent Presbyterian communities sought a way to distinguish themselves from the largely poor, Catholic newcomers. (Ironically, J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio and Eric Schmitt are all Catholic; Elon Musk is “culturally Christian,” whatever that means.)
The “Western Civilization” that, according to Rubio, binds America to Europe, is of a similarly recent vintage. As Yuri Slezkine observed in a recent essay for The New York Review of Books, there were no self-identified “Westerners” until the nineteenth century—and most of the early theorists of Western Civilization made a point of excluding Russia from their definition, which would no doubt upset many of Vladimir Putin’s fans on the American far right. Even the concept of a single, coherent nation that commands one’s personal allegiance is an invention of the 1800s; one that was more commonly associated with liberalism than aristocratic conservatism in its early iterations.
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February 16, 2026 at 12:46 AM
For my newsletter, I wrote about "heritage Americans" and the real meaning of nationhood. publiccomment.blog/p/the-great-...
The Great Retcon
The invention of "heritage Americans"
publiccomment.blog
February 15, 2026 at 9:34 PM
For my newsletter, I wrote about "heritage Americans" and the real meaning of nationhood. publiccomment.blog/p/the-great-...
It’s basically legal for drivers to kill pedestrians in America, especially if you do it while driving a Mercedes
The woman prosecutors said killed a family of four after ramming into a bus stop with her car in San Francisco’s West Portal neighborhood will avoid jail time after changing her plea in court.
S.F. driver accused of killing family of 4 in West Portal crash likely to avoid prison time
The woman prosecutors said killed a family of four after ramming into a bus stop with her car in San Francisco’s West Portal neighborhood will avoid jail time after changing her plea in court.
bit.ly
February 15, 2026 at 5:31 PM
It’s basically legal for drivers to kill pedestrians in America, especially if you do it while driving a Mercedes
I've been rewatching Twin Peaks and it is difficult to get my head around the fact that this was on the air in 1990 and 1991. It's so far advanced beyond anything on television *right now,* let alone 35 years ago.
February 15, 2026 at 4:19 PM
I've been rewatching Twin Peaks and it is difficult to get my head around the fact that this was on the air in 1990 and 1991. It's so far advanced beyond anything on television *right now,* let alone 35 years ago.
If these Nazis weren't so historically illiterate they might know that, for example, the country of Italy wasn't a unified linguistic community until circa the 19th century. Their "common cultures" are very much modern inventions.
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 4:18 PM
If these Nazis weren't so historically illiterate they might know that, for example, the country of Italy wasn't a unified linguistic community until circa the 19th century. Their "common cultures" are very much modern inventions.
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The kind of utter confusion Brooks is going to inflict on Yale undergrads.
February 14, 2026 at 5:05 PM
The kind of utter confusion Brooks is going to inflict on Yale undergrads.
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Poor management is costing Los Angeles millions of dollars earned for street upgrades. It's infuriating. The city needs change at the top.
The City of LA is about to give back millions of dollars of previously won money for active transportation projects because it can’t build things in any reasonable amount of time.
February 14, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Poor management is costing Los Angeles millions of dollars earned for street upgrades. It's infuriating. The city needs change at the top.
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People who don't follow these arguments *will never believe* how controversial the idea that this is how it works is
Rents are declining nationwide because the United States is building more housing. www.apartmentlist.com/research/nat...
February 13, 2026 at 6:13 PM
People who don't follow these arguments *will never believe* how controversial the idea that this is how it works is
Rents are declining nationwide because the United States is building more housing. www.apartmentlist.com/research/nat...
February 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Rents are declining nationwide because the United States is building more housing. www.apartmentlist.com/research/nat...
I'm going to start drastically limiting my time on here and pour more energy into my newsletter (publiccomment.blog) in part because I don't think it's healthy to be regularly exposed to takes this radioactive.
February 12, 2026 at 6:00 PM
I'm going to start drastically limiting my time on here and pour more energy into my newsletter (publiccomment.blog) in part because I don't think it's healthy to be regularly exposed to takes this radioactive.
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The case against Graeberism and for Mamdanism dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
January 12, 2026 at 6:04 PM
The case against Graeberism and for Mamdanism dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
Oren Cass calling himself “chief economist” of anything is wild. And not in a no true Scotsman way. He’s literally not an economist! It’s like me dubbing myself the attending physician at Resnikoff Consulting LLC.
“We noticed some anger from doctors last week. That’s why we invited RFK Jr. to talk about vaccines”
February 11, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Oren Cass calling himself “chief economist” of anything is wild. And not in a no true Scotsman way. He’s literally not an economist! It’s like me dubbing myself the attending physician at Resnikoff Consulting LLC.
My kid has a Charlie Brown-themed sweatshirt and matching sweat pants, and whenever I put them on her in the morning I hear Patti Harrison saying "I HATE little bald boys."
February 10, 2026 at 5:31 PM
My kid has a Charlie Brown-themed sweatshirt and matching sweat pants, and whenever I put them on her in the morning I hear Patti Harrison saying "I HATE little bald boys."
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okay but like the burden is literally on us
February 10, 2026 at 4:42 PM
okay but like the burden is literally on us
Can't find a single reference in this article to the real reason for Santa Barbara's housing crisis, but see if you can figure it out from the photo at the top www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
California city freezes rent for all of 2026. It could be permanent.
"Status quo is sacrificing families right now."
www.sfgate.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Can't find a single reference in this article to the real reason for Santa Barbara's housing crisis, but see if you can figure it out from the photo at the top www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
The burden is always on all of us to preserve a republican form of government, and I think a lot of our current issues are downstream from the fact that so many people have forgotten this.
I really don’t know what to do with folks who don’t understand what a democracy is.
February 10, 2026 at 4:24 PM
The burden is always on all of us to preserve a republican form of government, and I think a lot of our current issues are downstream from the fact that so many people have forgotten this.
Watched Eddington over the weekend. The first half was better than I was led to expect based on reviews, but the antifa climax was much worse. I wish Aster had stuck with the movie promised by act 1.
February 9, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Watched Eddington over the weekend. The first half was better than I was led to expect based on reviews, but the antifa climax was much worse. I wish Aster had stuck with the movie promised by act 1.
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I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind.
This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.
Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.
This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.
Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.
Opinion | Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:09 PM
I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind.
This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.
Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.
This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.
Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.
I don't know what her chances are, but the possibility of Nithya Raman becoming a pro-housing Los Angeles mayor feels too good to be true. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Councilmember Nithya Raman to run for L.A. mayor, challenging onetime ally Karen Bass
Raman would immediately pose a formidable challenge to Bass. She was the first council member to be elected with support from the Democratic Socialists of America.
www.latimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:40 PM
I don't know what her chances are, but the possibility of Nithya Raman becoming a pro-housing Los Angeles mayor feels too good to be true. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Open thread for recommending niche musical acts, in particular ones who are getting done dirty by the algorithmic playlist era. I'll start with mei ehara. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0_i...
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February 7, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Open thread for recommending niche musical acts, in particular ones who are getting done dirty by the algorithmic playlist era. I'll start with mei ehara. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0_i...