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While pro-housing activists blame the politics of "not in my backyard," NIMBYs helped prevent sprawl while modeling citizen activism.

By Rabbi Norman Lamm, zt”l February 1971—Historians tell us that when they find a law in a document, they assume that the mode of conduct that the law prohibited is the one that generally prevailed before the law was passed. With this in mind, let us turn to a Talmudic law enunciated as a commentary […]

Left in shock after Tusk's decision

Steve Wasserman, former editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review, served as editorial director of Times Books and publisher of Hill & Wang, an imprint of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. He is a past partner of the Kneerim & Williams Literary Agency and is currently editor at large for Yale University Press.

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