Lookin’ Out Your Backdoor
There’s nothing wrong with caring about your backyard. The post Lookin’ Out Your Backdoor appeared first on The American Conservative .
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Culture Lookin’ Out Your Backdoor There’s nothing wrong with caring about your backyard. Featured in the July/August 2026 issue Bill Kauffman Jun 8, 2026 12:01 AM Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Say the powers-that-be determine to site something truly noxious—a radioactive waste dump, a halfway house for child molesters, a data center—in your neighborhood. (These almost inevitably will be government projects or enabled by corporate welfare and subsidies to developers.) You protest. Instead of meeting your sincere remonstrations with arguments, you will be sneeringly called a NIMBY—a Not in My Backyard obstructionist. This epithet can be disorienting. Not in My Backyard? Well, yeah—not in my backyard.
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