The Revenge of the Analog Economy
The last few decades have seen the emergence of two rival economies: an older analog one built on the actual production of goods, and another that profits from financial transactions, images and...
View ArticleU.S. Environmental Protection Agency Favors More Energy Costs for All
America, with 4.1 percent of the world’s population (330 million vs 8 billion) professes to be the leader of everything but tightening the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for particulate...
View ArticleGavin Newsom's Presidential Prospects
Conservatives often see prospective presidential contender Gavin Newsom as a tool of the far Left—and, as such, politically doomed by the seemingly endless crises afflicting California. Yet the Golden...
View ArticleThe Bear and the Contradictions of Work
Hulu’s series The Bear, oddly labeled as a comedy, takes viewers inside a hectic, crowded, struggling Chicago sandwich shop that Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen Wright) inherited from his brother,...
View ArticleElectric Car Mandates Latest Frontier of Elites' War on Middle Class
California is working overtime to prove something that is obvious to most middle-class Americans: electric vehicle mandates are something of a scam.A week ago, California announced it would ban the...
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US Auto Access Improves Over a Decade
There is little in domestic policy in which there is greater agreement than the need to eliminate poverty. Superior mobility, which is provided by the automobile, both in the United States and around...
View ArticleCan Space Save Earth?
The world economy is in the doldrums, pessimism is rife around the world, and most young people, according to one survey, believe climate change means the end of human life on Earth.Yet a better future...
View ArticleFrom Sri Lanka to Salinas
Ah, Sri Lanka.In 2020: a beautiful, agriculturally self-sufficient island nation full of tea and tourists and holder of the highest “Environmental, Social, and Governance” (ESG) investor rating in the...
View ArticleThere Are Dark Days Ahead for the Jewish Diaspora
Jews around the world, particularly outside the fortress of Israel, are threatened in a way not seen since the 1940s. A fundamentally unstable world, with rising class and racial animus, creates a...
View ArticleIs Pro-Life Bad for Business?
Shortly after Indiana passed a new law restricting abortion, Indianapolis-based pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly condemned the law and announced that it would seek to expand outside the state.It’s widely...
View ArticleClass Homicide
There’s much talk today, from left and right, about threats to democracy, yet little focus on the social dynamic critical to its survival. In this respect, we may see the current, and troubling,...
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Fertility in Canada’s Provinces and Metropolitan Areas: 2020
Canada, like virtually all regions classified as “more developed” by the United Nations (Europe, Canada, the United States, Japan, Australia and New Zealand) is experiencing a dropping birth rate. The...
View ArticleThe Fall of Los Angeles
For much of the 20th century, Los Angeles symbolised the future. Over the course of the century, the population grew 40-fold to nearly four million people.But now, for the first time in its history,...
View ArticleWashington DC’s Energy Colonialism
Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser thinks people worldwide have a “human right” to come to the United States, legally or illegally. Our nation’s capital proudly proclaimed itself a “sanctuary city” in...
View ArticleIs the Automobile Industry Being Mandated Toward a Death Spiral?
Zero emissions at ANY COST seems to be the direction being mandated by governments and the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) movements around the world, to divest in fossil fuels.The few...
View ArticleThe "Tottering Chicago?" Series - Part 1
Let me clearly state this up front. I’m doing something you won’t see very often. I’m writing a review of a book review. And providing an opinion of a book I haven’t read. Given what I’ve read in the...
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Ghana: Sub-Saharan Fertility Case Study
Sub-Saharan Africa has grown quickly, at a rate about 1.5 times the rest of the world from 1960 to 2020. This has principally been the result of its higher fertility rates and increasing life...
View ArticleEnvironmentalism is a Fundamentalist Religion
Today's climate activists resemble nothing so much as a religious movement, with carbon the new devil's spawn. The green movement is increasingly wedded to a kind of carbon fundamentalism that is not...
View ArticleOur Sports Conferences Win the Money Game, But Will They Lose Our Hearts?
It appears my alma mater will fall short of pre-season expectations in football. So I’ve pretty much already accepted the likelihood that the Wisconsin Badgers will disappoint their fans on the...
View ArticlePandemic Reversal?
A recent article in the San Jose Mercury-Newsreports that transit ridership in “car crazy” Los Angeles has exceeded ridership in the “transit mecca” of the San Francisco Bay Area, a “reversal that...
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