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Subways Seeded the NYC Epidemic: MIT Economist
Like so many of us, Bret Stephens, an opinion columnist for The New York Times is stunned at the concentration of COVID-19 virus deaths in New York City, as well as the rest of the metropolitan area....
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Letter from Los Angeles: The Death of Small Business is a Tragedy for Jewish...
“Small-scale commercial production is, every moment of every day, giving birth spontaneously to capitalism and the bourgeoisie…wherever there is small business and freedom of trade, capitalism...
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The Pandemic Road to Serfdom
Even before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, America, like most higher-income countries, was already heading toward a neo-feudal future: massive inequality, ever-greater concentrations of power,...
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Dispersion in US Metros Increases Even Before COVID-19: New Census Estimates
The latest US Census Bureau metropolitan area population estimates (for 2019) were largely lost in the coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet the new results, released a few weeks ago, indicate that...
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Rethinking the Social Safety Net
The COVID-19 epidemic wreaked havoc on the majority of American households. The USC Dornsife poll reported on April 17th that 15% of previously employed people in the country have lost their jobs...
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On the Seasonality of the Virus
What are the odds that the coronavirus will recede on its own during the spring because of warmer temperatures or a higher ultraviolet (UV) index? This has been a question from the beginning.There has...
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Deindustrialization as a Template for COVID-19
As we wrote in Steeltown USA: Work and Memory in Youngstown, Youngstown’s story is America’s story, and that city offers a useful case study for anyone trying to imagine American life after the...
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One Nation, Under Lockdown, Divided by Pandemic
The last thing this polarized Republic needs is, well, more polarization, but that is what we are contracting from the pandemic. Americans, irrespective of region, broadly want the same things, such as...
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Hygienic Fascism: Turning the World Into a 'Safe Space' — But at What Cost?
Author Aldous Huxley once said, “A thoroughly scientific dictatorship will never be overthrown.”Even as we try to battle the COVID-19 pestilence, we may be contracting a more dangerous virus — hygienic...
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Majority of COVID-19 Deaths in Nursing Homes: New Report
According to The Washington Post (May 6) “Expert say — and initial reports from European countries suggest— once the pandemic has subsides, roughly half of all deaths may be found to have occurred in...
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American Regionalism: Convergence on COVID-19
America’s many regions are once again in the news given the Coronavirus pandemic with various states forming groups – such as the Western States Pact of California, Oregon, and Washington or the...
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The Dangerous Consequences of Renewables in the Age of COVID-19
Michael Moore’s surprising anti-renewable’s and environmental-movement documentary “Planet of the Humans” unmasks the trillions being spent on wind turbines and solar panels that do not deliver as...
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The Glory—and Risk—of Cities
The glory of cities is to serve as places of interaction between people and economies. Yet throughout history—from Roman times to the present—this advantage has also entailed exposure to deadly...
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Towards a Better Urbanism
The pandemic has brought panic to the once-confident ranks of urbanists promoting city density. At a time when even the New York Times is noticing that density and transit pose serious health risks for...
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Domestic Migration to Dispersion Accelerates (Even before COVID)
In what could turn out to be a “dry run” for the post-COVID19 era, net domestic migration has strongly shifted away from the larger metropolitan areas, to smaller areas. This “sea-change” has occurred...
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The Coronavirus Means Millennials Are More Screwed Than Ever
In the nearly eight years since I first described millennials as “the screwed generation,” things have only worsened for those born between 1982 and 2000—and the coronavirus is now accelerating that...
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The New Geography of America, Post-Coronavirus
When there is a general change in conditions, it is as if the entire creation had changed, and the whole world altered — Ibn Khaldun, 14th Century Arab historianFor a generation, a procession of...
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The Sad State of LA Transit
Once widely seen in the media as “the next great transit city”, the Los Angeles area’s rapid transit boom was turning to a bust — and well before the Covid19 crisis. As we can see below, transit...
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Culture and Coronavirus: Pohang Journal
Korea’s success, to date, in limiting the spread of the new coronavirus without extensive lockdowns has been widely acknowledged. A May 6, 2020 Atlantic article provides an excellent description of the...
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The Future of Residential and Commercial Real Estate
What is the future of real estate after Covid-19? Please join Richard Florida, Joel Kotkin, Marshall Toplansky and other leading experts to see where the real estate market is going. We will be...
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