Skate Parks: Appreciating Another Third Place
My young daughter was extremely excited when I pulled up to the large, two-level skate park in Riverhead, New York. I have been taking her brother there for many years and, despite her young age and...
View ArticleU.S. Fertility Rates Lowest in History
U.S. fertility rates have fallen to just 1.6 per woman. This has led some to fear that the United States may face the same kind of demographic collapse that is besetting Japan.While some may cheer that...
View ArticleSen. Marco Rubio's Report on the Working (and Non-Working) Man
For Labor Day, Senator Marco Rubio’s office issued a report on “The State of the Working (and Non-Working) Man.” I thought it was very interesting and wanted to highlight parts of it.The first section...
View ArticleMandating EVs While Discouraging Mining is a Recipe for Disaster
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” wrote the American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. This may prove no problem to the West’s climate-obsessed elites, who rail about the coming...
View ArticleRichards Bay: the Gateway for Africa’s LNG Goldmine
South Africa is one of the few countries that developed from the interior towards the coast, with Gauteng’s prosperity built around mining activity, the steady supply of water from Lesotho, and the...
View ArticleHistory Matters
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.~Polybius, The Rise of the Roman EmpireHistory has moved to the front line of social conflict, but rarely...
View ArticleBeauty and the Rust Belt, Part 2: The Lakefront Dividend Example
Here’s a followup to some of the points made in my last post, and a response to readers and Twitter (X) commenters.First, a quick refresh on my earlier post. This line of thought started when I was in...
View ArticleWhatever Happened to the Great West Coast Cities?
As recently as the early Nineties, when the great cities of the Midwest and East Coast were careening toward what seemed like an inevitable downturn, the urban agglomerations along the Pacific coast...
View ArticleWill the UAW Strike Perpetuate the Death Spiral Already Mandated for the Auto...
The UAW strike that began September 14th by 146,000 UAW union members seeking a 46 percent pay raise, and a 32-hour week with 40 hours of pay, and restoration of traditional pensions, will most likely...
View ArticleMake America California
Like the buffoonish commanding officer in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, Gavin Newsom for many represents “the very model of a modern Major-General,” filling the expectations of the...
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Jakarta Closing Population Gap with Tokyo
Demographia World Urban Areas contains population, land area and population density for the nearly 1,000 identified built-up urban areas in the world with 500,000 or more population. The total...
View ArticleAmerica's Sanctuary Cities Are Falling Apart
If it were not so tragic, it would be funny. For years the progressive Left — in the US as well as across the West— has boasted about its willingness to accept people even if they have arrived in...
View ArticleThe Urban Doom Loop and Experiential Advantage
Let’s talk about the “urban doom loop”.There were quite a few pundits who believed that the Covid pandemic would be the catalyst for a profound transformation of cities. Work-from-home opportunities...
View ArticleBlue Collar Workers Are Our Only Hope
Amid all the hysteria, technological wreckage and gallons of spilt ink, artificial intelligence’s most potent legacy is yet to be discerned. As we enter the fourth industrial revolution, everyone from...
View ArticleLos Angeles County Proposes Job Creation Ban
Los Angeles County, the nation’s most populous, with 10 million residents according to the 2020 census, is proposing what could effectively ban job creation the unincorporated areas, where the County...
View ArticleTrump is Fighting an American Class War – and Winning
The most important political event this week will not be the upcoming GOP debate but Donald Trump’s expected visit with striking UAW workers as the walkout expands to other states. In that one...
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Knowledge-intensive Jobs Move to Eastern and Western Parts of Europe
Preface: Europe is becoming more integrated – not only in terms of its defence policy but also through the spread of knowledge intensive jobs. The trend shows that a shift is underway and that brain...
View ArticleA Lesson on California Housing from the Billionaires Planning a New City
A cadre of Silicon Valley elites is drawing fierce criticism from local residents and environmentalists for planning a new city on the outskirts of the Bay Area, a project dubbed “California Forever.”...
View ArticleReport: Building the New America
This new report examines the housing trends that are driving today's migration of people and jobs, and suggests a strategy that better fits the aspirations of most Americans. Below is a summary of the...
View Article2022 ACS Transportation Data
About 5.0 million Americans relied on transit to get to work in 2022, according to American Community Survey data released by the Census Bureau last week. This is more than the 3.8 million people who...
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