How America’s ‘Big Sort’ Will Upend Politics
The world may not be turning upside down, but it’s certainly tilting. In the long shadow of the pandemic, with war on the European continent and the West and China entering a new cold war, the “new...
View ArticleThe Future of Cities: The Future of Chinese Cities
China represents the cutting edge of 21st century urbanism. Its successes and failures will shape global perceptions of city life, not only in that country but around the world. When future historians...
View ArticleThe Retreat from Globalism
In the wake of liberal globalism’s failings, a nationalist tide is rising today, not only in China and Russia but also throughout the West. It is a dynamic eerily similar to 100 years ago, when war,...
View ArticleNo Solar for Scranton Joe
Last Tuesday during his State of The Union speech, President Joe Biden repeated a claim he has made many times over the past few years about renewable energy. Biden declared that the Inflation...
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Legendary Kowloon-Canton Train Replaced
I was disappointed to read in the South China Morning Post that the legendary Kowloon-Canton Railway train from Hung Hom Station in Kowloon (Hong Kong) to Guangzhou East Station would not be restored...
View ArticleThe Rural Revolution a Welcome Counter to the Liberal Green Agenda
The current deceleration of globalism can herald either a greater period of nationalism, with its tendency towards authoritarianism and xenophobia, or we could return to a more decentralized political...
View ArticleMysteries of the Labor Force
One of the enduring mysteries of contemporary society centers on the seeming disassociation of so much of the labor force from the economy. This became particularly evident during the pandemic, when...
View ArticleThe Future of Cities: Africa's Urban Future
The urban future in the coming decades will be largely an African one. The continent is now home to 12 of the world's largest cities and four megacities— and more importantly, Africa has the world's...
View ArticleCalifornia Jobs: A Multi-Dimensional Problem
“From the Beginning, California promised much. While yet barely a name on the map, it entered American awareness as a symbol of renewal. It was a final frontier: of geography and of expectation.”—...
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Los Angeles Densest Urban Area: Revision of Census Bureau Data
Los Angeles has been restored to the position of densest major urban area (over 1,000,000 population) in the nation, according to Census Bureau data (complete file). The original announcement of urban...
View ArticleChinese Investments in U.S. Bring Threats and Promise
As if proliferating spy balloons and insidious TikTok feeds weren’t enough, America’s economic relationship with China also is going to get more complicated. And as usual when things are really...
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The Anti-Industry Industry
The overwhelming majority of the money involved in the energy and climate debate in the U.S. today is not on the side of traditional energy producers. Instead, the money, the media, and the momentum...
View ArticleThe Fall of the Jewish Gangster
Antisemitism has always partly been driven by envy; Jews attract a unique resentment for their disproportionate intellectual achievements in literature, science, education and, particularly, finance....
View ArticleThe Future of Cities: Recalibrating Expectations: Lessons From Youngstown, Ohio
In September 1977, the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company announced the first major shutdown in the American steel industry. It was closing its largest mill, the Campbell Works, displacing over 10,000...
View ArticleCanadians Are on the Move, to Smaller Communities
For decades, Canadians moved to the larger cities (census metropolitan areas, or CMAs) with their economic opportunities. The latest estimates indicate that CMAs have 72 per cent of the nation’s...
View ArticleAre Asians the New Jews?
In countries where Asians and Jews immigrated in large numbers, they have long followed a common path. Both groups occupy a dual position: discriminated against for standing out, while at the same time...
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Race, Class, and Culture
Racial divisions have become the stalking horse of our politics and social discourse, with racism defined as white on black (often extending to Western vs. non-Western ethnicities). Google Trends...
View ArticleBeyond Davos
Few annual events produce more paranoid commentary than the World Economic Forum’s recently completed Davos conference. The WEF, founded in 1971, has not only become the favored target of lunatic...
View ArticleBetween Rent Control and Crazy
Tune out the noise of various tenant-landlord tiffs in our pandemic-altered world and consider this fundamental question that carries actual signal from—of all places—the Broadway stage: What is the...
View ArticleThe Future of Cities: Indianapolis
Indianapolis was an unlikely candidate to emerge as a midwestern demographic and economic leader. It is an artificially created city, chosen by fiat as a centrally located capital for the state of...
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