Clik here to view.
A Class Guide To The 2020 Presidential Election
America’s electorate in 2020 has been dissected by race, region, cultural attitudes and gender. But the most important division may well be, in a nation that has become profoundly unequal, along class...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Atlanta as a Maturing City
My latest piece is now online over at City Journal. It’s a look at Atlanta, now bouncing back from a very rough 10-12 year period, but looking increasingly like a city that is maturing rather than a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Governor Newsom Champions Measures That Would Take Us Back To Medieval Times
Governor Newsom is vocally supportive of the Green New Deal that would take us back to medieval times. The Governor’s statement on July 12th was scary. He is looking into putting a moratorium on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Metropolitan America Expands (Especially Where Housing is Expensive)
Metropolitan America continues to expand, based on the latest Census Bureau population estimates and metropolitan area geographical delineations from the White House Office of Management and Budget...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Millennial Neighborhoods
My generation – us ‘free love and drugs’ Hippies – were never going to be like our suburban parents who raised us. Until the Detroit Riots of 1967, I was raised in a 1,100 sq. Ft. three-bedroom brick...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Return to Serfdom
I’m not a free-market fundamentalist. To me, the beauty of liberal capitalism lies in its performance: More people live well, and live longer, than ever before. Millions of working-class people have...
View ArticleClik here to view.
America Is Number One: Too Bad The Politicians Don’t See It
The United States is a great country dominated by small minds. The two dominant political forces of our time — the progressive left and the Trumpian right — have a stake in pushing a declinist...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New York Needs to Think Like a Growth City Again
My latest article is now online in City Journal, and is about the need for New York to start thinking like a growth city again. It’s interesting to contrast NYC with the case of Atlanta I recently...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Who Needs Democracy Anyway?
On the 18th June this year, climate change demonstrators glued themselves to a main street in the centre of Brisbane, protesting what they regard as a climate emergency and to voice their objection to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
U.S. Undercounts Homeless Population, By A Lot
Americans are enjoying summer, lighting up the barbeque, enjoying the freedom of flip-flops, and thinking about weekend road trips with the family. It’s also the time of year when cities sneak out...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Stop Bashing the Suburbs as Worst Places for Older People to Live
Suburbs and automobiles are necessary bedfellows in the United States, but this is why many experts believe that these low density, physically spread-out communities are the worst places for older...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Regression of America’s Big Progressive Cities
If there’s anything productive to come from his recent Twitter storm, President Trump’s recent crude attacks on Baltimore Congressman Elijah Cummings have succeeded in bring necessary attention to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Passenger Travel in Europe and the US: More Similar than Different
Probably one of the most enduring myths about the differences between Europe and the United States is that Europeans travel mainly by trains and transit, while Americans cling to their cars and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Unintended Consequence Of The Green Movement Is The Creation Of More...
The green movement has done a great job of stymying the growth of nuclear power generation. That in itself creates an oxymoron. Nuclear is the only known technology to generate zero emission...
View ArticleClik here to view.
We Need More Family Friendly Cities
My latest piece is now online at the Institute for Family Studies. It’s a look at what it would take to make more family friendly cities. Here is an excerpt:In January, Malaysia Goodson was killed when...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Is It Time To Rethink Density?
With new forecasts of record population growth across Australia’s major capital cities over the next few decades and affordability remaining a challenge, is it time to reconsider the core principles...
View ArticleClik here to view.
America’s Regional Variations Are Wildly Overstated
The idea of America’s regional fracture has become a widely accepted assumption among the media and academic set. Recent book releases that focus on American divisions such as histories of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
America’s Identity Crisis
This week, the troubled state of American democracy was on display in the reactions to the mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. To the establishment Left, led by the New York Times, the El Paso shooter...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Germany Went Totally Green Too Quickly
Has U.S. leadership gone awry? Senators Chris Coons and the honorable Dianne Feinstein recently announced they will introduce the Climate Action Rebate Act, which aims to generate $2.5 trillion in tax...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Europe’s Fading Cosmopolitan Dream
In headier days, Europe’s leaders dreamed of a multicultural continent, its aging cities saved by millions of new migrants eager to join a stable, prosperous urbanity. This was the promise behind...
View Article