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California Fleeing
Some longtime Californians view the continued net outmigration from their state as a worrisome sign, but most others in the Golden State’s media, academic, and political establishment dismiss this...
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The Census Clairvoyant — Futures Told
The Australian Census is coming. It will be on Tuesday 10th August. That’s the only prediction I am likely to get 100% right.What are some of the key themes that might be revealed by a Census taken in...
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Elites Are Using Climate Hysteria to Immiserate the Working Class
Few things in life are as predictable as the rhetoric of climate change summits like this coming week's in Glasgow. Over the next week, you will hear again and again that the planet is dying and that...
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Quinn Chapel Story
Anyone who’s watched the changes in Chicago’s Near South Side community over the last 30 years can tell you, it’s undergone a complete transformation in a generation’s time. Many observers might look...
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Serfing the Planet
Like its global predecessors, the COP26 Glasgow conference will usher in a new wave of apocalyptic warnings about climate change. It will also likely prove no more successful, in terms of actually...
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Did Critical Race Theory Lose Virginia?
The stunning defeat suffered by the Democrats in Virginia, a surprisingly close race in deep blue New Jersey and the defeat of a “police defunding measure” in Minneapolis represent a remarkable turning...
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One Boondoggle Down, Hundreds to Go
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has killed the LaGuardia AirTrain, a ridiculously expensive people mover that had been supported by her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo. “I don’t feel obligated to accept what...
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The Cost of Moving Up to Home Ownership
The long-standing aspiration for home ownership has intensified during the pandemic and with the popularity of remote work. For many, it is no longer necessary to live conveniently close to work, as...
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Dirty Jobs, Essential Workers, and the Infrastructure Bills
Current negotiations over the second infrastructure bill may remind a lot of people of Mike Rowe’s oddly popular series Dirty Jobs. Which makes sense. Watching a man stumble around inside a sewage tank...
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Meet me in St. Louis: When One Golden Gate Closes, Another May Open
Sacramento politicians and the urban growth lobby they so diligently serve have created a narrative that there is something very wrong with living in (or wanting to live in) a single-family...
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Without Fossil Fuel Infrastructure We're Supposed to Have an Energy Crisis
Over the last decade, climate activists have successfully pressured governments, banks, and corporations to divest from crude oil and natural gas companies. The energy infrastructures are just like the...
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Status Quo: Coastal VC Hierarchy is Key to Michigan Startup
The announcement that Our Next Energy just lined up $25 million in Series A financing had an unfortunate if familiar cast to it when the Michigan-based electric-vehicle technology outfit announced its...
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The Shortage Economy: Will We Go Marching?
Washington pundits generally see the supply-chain hiccups and partially related price inflation as political risks for the Biden White House. Probably that’s so but there’s also opportunity for a...
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California Dreamin'
“I just took [my son] to our local Walgreens to buy him a toy. While there, a man shoved past me so firmly that he sent me into the shelving. Then he proceeded to fill a brown paper bag with Halloween...
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Housing Crisis Solved?
In the middle of October, something astonishing happened: the Government and the National Party held a joint news conference to announce that they had agreed on the way to make housing more...
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America is Built on a Great Culture. Progressives Want to Abandon It
Here's a dirty secret: Great nations rest on a great common culture. I say it's a secret because it's become almost taboo to discuss this historic fact; progressives across the globe have turned...
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Crude Oil is seldom used for electricity, so why tinker with the supply chain?
Most of the worlds continuous uninterruptable electricity generation is by coal, natural gas, hydropower, and nuclear.The primary usage of crude oil is for the manufacture of derivatives for thousands...
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We Need More Families
Families, and the lack of them, are emerging as one of the great political dividing lines in America, and much of the high-income world. The familial ideal was once embraced by all political factions,...
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Auto 30-Minute Commutes Substantially Top Transit
Advances in information technology have made it possible to provide estimates of job access by transportation mode in metropolitan areas. The University of Minnesota’s Accessibility Observatory has...
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Greenlining is Remedy for Redlining and Bluelining
Greenlining, designating a neighborhood solely for new and renovated homes, serves as an affordable housing tool and as a neighborhood revitalization tool. For 35 years, since Eric Moye chaired Mayor...
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