How the City of Angels Went to Hell
A journey through Los Angeles, the adopted home of Vice President Kamala Harris, offers a masterclass in urban dysfunction. As you drive through the streets of the southside, and along Central Avenue,...
View ArticleLooming ‘Clean’ Energy Disasters Off Our Coasts
Photos of oil-covered seals and birds from California’s 1969 Santa Barbara blowout helped launch the environmental and stop-oil movements. Some 90,000 barrels polluted ocean waters and yet, when I was...
View ArticleCan the West Survive Four Years of Harris or Trump?
Great empires always fall, pushed by their own leaders. Just think of the role played in Britain’s decline by the Liberals who blundered into the First World War, permanently crippling the world’s...
View ArticleThe Midwest Needs International Immigration
Does America even believe anymore in the saying on the Statue of Liberty’s plaque: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free?” Maybe in a political sense they do, but...
View ArticleThe West Faces a New Type of Housing Crisis
Throughout the West, particularly the Anglosphere, housing costs are ravaging the middle class. Homeownership, long the key to social mobility, is on the decline, particularly among younger generations...
View ArticleWhat's Great About Midwestern Cities
Anyone who follow me here knows I write quite a bit about Midwestern cities. They’re what I know best and love most. They’re chronically under-discussed in American urbanist discourse, where most of...
View ArticleHow Harris Obstructed California Home Construction
Kamala Harris has a plan to help America’s struggling home buyers by increasing the supply of houses. Her recently released 82-page policy book, “A New Way Forward for the Middle Class,” calls for...
View ArticleThe Middling Kingdom
In July, on the 35th anniversary of World Population Day, the United Nations released a new report that reduced the world’s peak population prediction by 100 million– from 10.4 billion to 10.3 billion...
View ArticleThe New Revolutionary Class
No power on earth is more fearsome than a highly educated class that faces a constrained, even dismal, future. Such people have played a role in revolutionary upheavals in Europe, Russia, and Latin...
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Canadians Moving to Smaller Cities and Rural Areas
For the last two centuries, one of the most important demographic trends has been the movement of people from rural areas to the cities. It has been estimated that in 1800, the world was only 3% urban,...
View ArticleLatino Voters Are Abandoning Kamala Harris and the Democrats
Support for the Democrats among black voters shows signs of some erosion, but it’s Latinos – now the country’s largest racial minority – who may prove the critical decider of the 2024 election. Latinos...
View ArticleAmericas Future Lies in the South
Every morning, just as the sun rises, Charleston Harbor hosts a scene of stirring patriotism. There, in the courtyard of Fort Sumter, tourists raise a huge American flag, helped along by a National...
View ArticleHow Wokeness Could Cost the Democrats the Election
This time around, Hillary Clinton is not lamenting Republican ‘deplorables’. She has chosen instead, along with Kamala Harris, to label Donald Trump and his supporters as out-and-out fascists....
View Article10 Can't-Miss Election Predictions
I have been interested in presidential politics and campaigns all my life. I cannot remember an uglier contest, or one with worse candidates, than the one that will be decided on Tuesday. As I...
View ArticleThe Bug Out Mindset
There have been a lot of articles in recent years about billionaires building bunkers in remote locations like New Zealand.This is just one example of a general trend of people who are adopting a sort...
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