The New Global Class War
In The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels warned that the ‘spectre’ of class war loomed over a rapidly industrialising capitalist world. Today, the neoliberal world is increasingly haunted by a...
View ArticleCSY Repost – Houston: "Rust Belt, You Have a Problem"
(I know, I know. I haven't been around much lately. My last post was almost six weeks ago. The reasons for my disappearance? A lot of it is life- and work-related, the way things happen with most...
View ArticleWelcome to the New Era of Environmental Colonialism
There's a new kind of colonialism afoot in rich nations, and much like the old colonialism, this one, too, purports to be for the good of the colonized. Today's colonialists are Left-wing...
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2020 US Population Center in Missouri (and Perhaps for the Next Century)
Based on data from the 2020 Census, the mean center of the population in the United States is in the northeast corner of Wright County, Missouri.The population center is defined as follows by the U. S....
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Transit Carries 66.6% of 2019 Riders in September
September 2022 was a booming month for the American transit industry, which carried 66.6 percent as many riders as in September 2019, according to data released yesterday by the Federal Transit...
View ArticleThe Absurdity of California's Reparations Proposal
You can always count on California’s progressive contingent to mix lunacy with hypocrisy. The state’s nine-member Reparations Task Force last month recommended large state payments to descendants of...
View ArticleTo Embrace Immigration, Canada Must Reject Trudeau's Racialized Policies
Recent government moves to increase immigration to 1.2 million over the next three years reflects both a hopeful sign for Canada’s future, but also potential impact. Along with immigration’s many...
View ArticleMeeting Labor's Moment
In my thirty years in the labor movement, I’ve never seen a moment quite like this one. We’re living through a pivotal moment for America’s working class and for the future of U.S. labor, but it’s more...
View ArticleNormalizing Jew-Hatred
The worst thing about the aftermath of Donald Trump’s repast last month with two open anti-Semites—Kanye West and Nick Fuentes—was not the predictable liberal outrage and conservative cowardice, but...
View ArticleCOP 27 Has No Backup Plan to Replace Products from Oil
The U.N. COP27 conference was held in Egypt and attracted the global elites and more than four hundred private jets. All attendees recognize that the climate change is occurring, like it has for four...
View ArticleCSY Repost – What Happened to Addressing Inequality?
My father, a retired AME Church pastor, on occasion would start a sermon with a story about a pastor preaching a particularly fantastic sermon. The pastor was heaped with praise by his congregants...
View ArticleHow New York Can Survive
In 1912, James Weldon Johnson wrote that New York City is “the most fatally fascinating place in America”. The city, he explained, “sits like a great witch at the gate of the country, showing her...
View ArticleLow Speed Fail
Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice as she grew taller and taller in Wonderland.Curiouser and curiouser, said everyone paying even the slightest attention as the high-speed rail fantasy grew bigger and...
View ArticlePoliticians Finally Embrace Need to Promote Region
A critical mass of forces finally may be understanding the benefits of what I’ve been advocating for years: that separate political actors in Flyover Country unite to promote our region as a whole,...
View ArticleThe Reparations Trap
For today’s progressive left and its corporate backers, the past increasingly determines the future. At home and abroad, they seek to remedy historical guilt. So, in recent months, progressive elites...
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The Rural Character of Canada's Metropolitan Areas (CMAs)
There is considerable confusion with respect to the terms of urban geography, not only among the population in general, but also among the media, and sadly, among academics. Perhaps the greatest...
View ArticleFrance Bans Rail Competitors
Supposedly, European high-speed trains are so successful that the airlines stop operating when new high-speed rail corridors open. The reality is much more dismal: in order to guarantee customers for...
View ArticleCities Have to Expand for House Prices to Fall
The Ford government’s plan to expand the land supply available for housing has evoked the usual dog whistles about “urban sprawl” by interests apparently unaware of the strong connections between an...
View ArticleHouse Prices Falling At Last
In recent weeks, more and more commentators are suggesting that house prices in New Zealand have started to fall, and are expected to fall further.For many homeowners, especially those who have bought...
View ArticlePrisoners of Ideology
The tendency to convert concrete issues into ideological problems, to invest them with moral color and high emotional charge, is to invite conflicts which can only damage a society. ~Daniel Bell, The...
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