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The Reshoring Imperative
The Covid-19 pandemic brought tragedy and disruption to America. But it has also provided another stark warning concerning the country’s disastrous overreliance on overseas production. It has...
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Mobility Principles for a Prosperous World
Four years ago, Zipcar co-founder Robin Chase wrote, or led the effort to write, ten principles of shared mobility for livable cities. Despite a patina of social justice and green values, these...
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The Socialism America Needs
Clobbered from all sides by the pandemic, climate change and disruptions in virtually every industry by the rise of artificial intelligence, the capitalist dream is dying— and a new, mutant form of...
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Demographia United States Housing Affordability: 188 Markets Rated
The Urban Reform Institute has published the 2021 edition of Demographia United States Housing Affordability, which rates middle-income housing affordability in the third quarter 2020. Demographia...
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Indiana Under Republican Rule
My latest article is in the Winter edition of American Affairs Journal. It's a detailed examination of Indiana under 16 years of Republican rule. Regardless of your own political orientation, you'll...
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The GND Has No Plan to Replace Crude Oil Products
Two of the fossil fuels, coal, and natural gas, are used to generate continuous uninterruptible electricity, but crude oil, the third fossil fuel, is seldom ever used for electricity, but primarily...
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Dot's, Rivian, Kohl's: Homegrown Successes Get Coastal Boosts
As long as we promote and encourage the growth of companies that get their start in Flyover Country the economic gains for our region will keep on coming. Often the benefits will be offset by the...
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Minorities Monopolize California’s Suburban and Exurban Growth
A few months ago, we reported on the strong attraction of the suburbs and exurbs in the growth of the largest metropolitan areas (a City Sector Model [Note 1] analysis, Minorities Dominate Suburban...
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Why the 'Old North' States Have Been Economic Laggards
My latest column is now online at Governing. It is a recapitulation of my analysis in my American Affairs piece on Indiana about how basically all the states and regions of the Old North - a 23 state...
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Own Nothing and Love It
From the ancient world to modern times, the class of small property owners have constituted the sine qua non of democratic self-government. But today this class is under attack by what Aristotle...
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Do Sidewalks Make Us More Social?
Sidewalks have long been considered to be essential parts of America’s social and communal infrastructure. As Jane Jacobs recognized many decades ago, sidewalks are “the main public places of the...
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The Great Nudge
When we think of oppressive regimes, we immediately think of the Stalinist model portrayed in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the heavy-handed thought control associated with Hitler’s Reich or Mao’s...
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How to Tax a Billionaire (or Not)
Our institutions created centibillionaires and are now trying to contain them.In Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged, a group of high-achieving industrialists have had enough with being exploited (in their...
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Work or Welfare?
Throughout history, work has been the common lot of humanity—at least, outside of the idle rich and those who could not find any. It was celebrated by the Calvinist capitalists described in Weber’s The...
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Mexico City 2020: The Evolving Urban Form
The Mexico City metropolitan area (Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México) continues to grow, though has slowed somewhat from the previous decade. The metropolitan area is the functional or economic...
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Manchin and Sinema Hold the Key for Democrats: Respecting Regional Difference
Throughout the long and drawn-out negotiations over Joe Biden's ambitious Build Back Better Act, two senators have emerged as punching bags for Democrats anxious to get the bill passed: Joe Manchin of...
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Unicorns Can Grow in Flyover Country, But Are There Enough Tech Workers?
The experiences of three too-rare high-growth tech companies in Flyover Country illustrate how the Great Reshuffling of workers amid the pandemic has become a mixed blessing for our region.Jeff Mason,...
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Our Neo-Feudal Future
America has only a limited feudal past, the plantation aristocracy of the antebellum South and the enormous class chasms of the Gilded Age being pretty much our only examples. Yet today—after decades...
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Governor Newsom Supports Increasing Oil Imports from Foreign Countries
To gain more press time, California Governor Newsom just announced California moves to ban oil wells within 3,200 feet of homes and schools. Governor Newsom is proud of continuing the decline of...
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The New Dark Ages
If ignorance is bliss, the Western world should be ecstatic. Even as colleges churn out degrees and collect fees, and technology makes information instantly accessible, the basic level of literacy, as...
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