Blowback!
When it comes to siting renewables, the overwhelming majority of the money, media, and momentum is on the side of the companies that want to impose large wind, solar, and battery projects on rural...
View ArticleCities of the West: An American Success Story, Part 2
Part one of this essay showed how the political tradition of Alexander Hamilton, Henry Clay, and Abraham Lincoln gave rise to the successful spread of American civilization into the forbidding region...
View ArticleDanielle Smith's Pro-Growth Rebellion is a Sign of Things to Come
Canada, even more than the United States, stands at the edge of a great historic opportunity. As worldwide demand for raw materials, including those needed for the much ballyhooed “energy transition,”...
View ArticleDemocracy Does Not Die With Dispersion
With the COVID-19 pandemic declared over, a significant question for politicians, planners, and pundits alike is what to do with city centers and old urban cores after the pandemic pushed many...
View ArticleThe Greatest Generational Conflict of All
Ever since the phrase “the generation gap” was minted — by a headline writer at Look during the youth rebellion of the Sixties — trouble has been brewing. Today, there are two generational conflicts in...
View ArticleThe Spark That Lit the Gas Stove
On January 1, 2023 it is likely most Americans woke up with a hangover.On January 1, 2023, it is a almost a certainty that no American woke up worried that the gas stove in their kitchen was secretly...
View ArticleThe Uni-party Isn't Just Bad for Governance
We will take as a given for the purposes of this article that California has one actual political party.It is called the Democratic Party but could easily be called any number of things – the...
View ArticleWill We Ever See an End to the Donald Trump Show?
In a perverse way, the wave of indictments against Donald Trump is a win for both Trump himself and for his so-called progressive tormentors. Trump can use the indictments to stir up his rabid base,...
View ArticleNo U
Ever since the Arab Oil Embargo of 1973, American energy policy has largely orbited around the hackneyed idea of “energy independence.”I put that phrase in quotes because the concept has never had a...
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Slowmadding CDMX
One of my oldest friends from my youth moved to Mexico City after she finished university. I would visit her and we’d have adventures together. On one trip her mom was also visiting from Spain and we...
View ArticleHousing Report: Blame Ourselves, Not Our Stars
No issue plagues Californians more than the high cost of housing. By almost every metric—from rents to home prices—Golden State residents suffer the highest burden for shelter of any state in the...
View ArticleSecession Is a Threat Californians Should Take Seriously
At the height of the anti-Trump hysteria after 2016, Democrats in California talked often about “Calexit”, which would allow the Golden State to secede and, no doubt, form an ideal Ecotopia of its own....
View ArticleEntitled Transit Stooges Blackmail for BART
“We are not asking, we are demanding that Governor Newsom allocate $5 billion to public transit,” said Brett Vertocci, a protestor who was blocking rush-hour traffic in San Francisco. “We need the...
View ArticleSolving the Global Housing Crisis
The global housing crisis across the high-income world, particularly in the Anglosphere, represents perhaps the single biggest challenge to the future of the middle class. From the United Kingdom to...
View ArticleBiden Administration's Environmental Injustices
President Biden recently issued a 5,400-word executive order directing all federal agencies to emphasize “environmental justice” in every decision they make.After ducking questions for weeks on what...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Liberal Apostate
In an age of darkness, glimpses of light are rare — but all the brighter for it. As the censorious progressivism embraced by Joe Biden and much of his Democratic party grows into an increasingly...
View ArticleWe Can’t Talk About Fixing Loneliness without Talking About Neighborhoods
After the US Surgeon General Advisory raised the alarm over the “devastating impact of the epidemic of loneliness and isolation in the United States,” the Washington Post jumped into the discussion of...
View ArticleLet Them Eat Solar Panels
Last week, during a speech at a high-dollar fundraiser for the League of Conservation Voters in Washington, D.C., President Joe Biden exulted about a solar project in Angola. According to a transcript...
View ArticleYIMBYs Are Useful Idiots of the Development Lobby
Last month, Katie Roberts-Hull from YIMBY Melbourne posted an article in The Guardiancomplaining that heritage laws are thwarting housing supply.“Our fondness for nostalgic aesthetics and preserving...
View ArticleIf It’s “Livable,” You Can’t Afford It
North America’s most livable cities are also among the least affordable. At least, that’s my conclusion from the Economist‘s 2023Livability Index. According to this index, Vancouver BC, which Wendell...
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