Steve B. Holt

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Hi everyone. Some exciting news. We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Public Policy here at Rockefeller College. We are pretty flexible on topic areas. We have a great team here and Albany is a great place to live. #econsky #academicsky

Posting: albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

This is going to sound like a copout answer, but my take is that any city of a sufficient size is going to have *something* cool and interesting going on, even if it's hidden away somewhere. The truly bleak cities are the affluent suburbs that are just McMansions, cars, and nothing else.

I am begging editors to log off the internet. We do not need to still be doing this. People not terminally online or involved in culture war issues with colleges - which is most people - barely knew who Charlie Kirk was. Who is all this coverage for?

Used the one window I had to see a movie to see One Battle After Another. I cannot recommend it enough. See it in theaters - it's so worth it. The movie is an homage to the American revolutionary spirit fit into a cat and mouse film. And from beginning to end, this movie just *goes*.

Unreasonably cruel that our political economy produced a severe housing shortage in most cities, driving additional margins of people into homelessness, and the wannabe dictator regime is now using visible homelessness as a pretext for sending soldiers into the streets and not building housing.

I used to view this turn in both of them as a turf protection response to growth in good public facing writing skills among some top academics. Why read Matt if there are more informed writers with a platform?

But it's probably more petty than that. Some insult or humiliation they never got over.

Like, yes, 1,000 units a year for a three year stretch is not sufficient and will not be sufficient to reduce rents in a place attracting more than 1,000 residents per year while working through a housing deficit.

Now they've tanked the market for new units in Albany and think it's good!

This is true. In part, people have no sense of the scale of building needed, so it needs to be constantly put in front of them. In Albany, there was a short stretch of building 1,000 units or so a year, and there are Council members who point to it as "letting building happen failed to reduce rent."

They Were Promised a Taste of America. They Got Abuse and Exploitation.

I look forward to the horror movie some thoughtful director makes based on Kurt Weiss Greenhouses or the J-1 visa program generally.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/n...

Good God, I didn't realize he got this wrecked in the interview.

Honestly, being left behind after the Rapture might be pretty good. A labor shortage to work through, which might lead to some supply chain issues in many industries. But might actually be able to return a variety of rights back to people. Likely some wage growth.

I am also 40 and so cheer for Joe Flacco in solidarity. I have become that kind of old guy.

Chotiner: You say here that you're a board game enthusiast.
Me: Yes, I love playing all board games
Chotiner: But there are several games here still in their cellophane.
Me: Well, you see...
Chotiner: And you say here that you care about waste and the environment.
Me: Now, hold on...

I can't emphasize enough that people not on Twitter 24/7 because they've been convinced it's part of their job do not even know who the fuck Charlie Kirk was and yet somehow we are abandoning the fucking first amendment over him getting murdered by a random person.

The way you know social media has cooked so many brains in the media and political establishment is that the NYTimes *hard news* section has had wall to wall coverage of Kirk's murder, Democrats are worried about the campaign messaging, and if you ask any normie not online, they're like, "Who?"

Welcome to my old man rants at a cloud post.

It feels to me like cinemas *want* to go out of business. I want to see Caught Stealing. It's been out for like two and a half weeks. I finally have an evening to go see a movie. The run for Caught Stealing is ALREADY down to single matinee showings at all the theaters near me.

There are several grassroots orgs in the Capital Region that work on these issues. Walkable Albany & Capital Streets are two. They focus primarily on local gov & have been *losing* ground there on housing. It's bad. Development has all but stopped in Albany and many officials see it as a good thing.

Vital City | California Dreaming New York should follow the Golden State’s lead when it comes to housing legislation.

I’m in the new issue of @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social with a piece about what Albany can learn from Sacramento when it comes to housing policy: www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/cal...

Frum, Rove, and Carlson all showing more courage in their convictions about the 1st amendment and honest assessments of the Kirk murder than many Democratic electeds and liberal pundits is not something I expected, if I'm being honest.

So much theory about institutional design to generate a robust, sustainable democracy and sets of democratic institutions has gone up in smoke in 8 months of this regime. Legal theory too.

"Dear Dr. Holt,
Welcome to the manuscript central system for..."

No. Nonononono, dear God, no

"Dear Dr. Holt,
I would like to invite you to review..."

As it should be, really. At base, probably a story of bit part guy that just thought he was owed more and hates a world that decided he wasn't in all the wrong ways.

Yeah, he's been a MAGA-type guy for awhile now.

Corn dogs or pigs in a blanket would give you the best of both.

I want to see some enterprising journalist out there do a deep dive into the convenience fees that are being tacked onto online payments of civil fines and fees (like paying parking tickets or property taxes online). It strikes me that the implication is the default is inconvenience in compliance.

I do not think that condemning political violence obligates anyone to whitewash Charlie Kirk's legacy or pretend that he stood for "free speech" and free debate when his long record of public statements and actions of the organization he founded clearly says otherwise.

Turning Point USA was the precursor to Chris Rufo. It was the playbook for right wing censorship of college professors through the use of monitoring as a means to encourage threats of violence. The conservative state governments cracking down on campus speech? Turning Point laid that ground work.

I don't think a lot of people realize or know people who were on the receiving end of death threats for over a decade because of Turning Point USA. They made a watch list of professors that made them targets for not only hate mail but death threats. That's Charlie Kirk's legacy.