Could a Third Party Save America?
With the presidential race now heating up, the US faces a choice of disastrous proportions. It is shaping up to be an unpopularity contest between Donald Trump – an unstable narcissist – and the...
View ArticleResidential Building Permits Concentrated in South and Mountain West
Texas and Florida lead the nation in residential building permits in 2023 through July. Texas had 136,000 building permits and Florida 115,000. California was a distant third, at 65,000. North Carolina...
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Solar Energy is Getting 200 Times More in Federal Subsidies Than Nuclear
If the bank robber, Willie Sutton, were alive today and working in the electric utility sector, he’d surely be a solar energy developer.Born in 1901, Sutton spent most of his life in and out of prison....
View ArticleFacing Reality on Single Parenthood
Welcome to my weekly digest, with the best articles from around the web and a roundup of my recent writings and appearances.The Atlantic has an article out called “Is Single Parenthood the Problem?.”...
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Preservation Deed Restrictions Can Save Homes and Bring Higher Prices for...
Many think preservation deed restrictions and easements diminish the value of a property. In many cases in Dallas neighborhoods the opposite is true. The historic and architecturally significant homes...
View ArticleRussia and China Dominating the Race for Nuclear Electricity Generation
As the USA and many world leaders continue the pursuit of “unreliable electricity”, from wind turbines and solar panels, that can only generate intermittent electricity at best from available breezes...
View ArticleBy Men For Men
I said I would follow up in more depth on the points I raised in my Wall Street Journal piece about why men turn to online influencers instead of mainstream authorities and institutions. One of those...
View ArticleMAGA Attacks on Cities Are Not Working
We’re 13 months away from the 2024 presidential election, and just 3 months away from the primaries. The dominant themes of the election are forming. The Republicans have let it be known that one theme...
View ArticleImagine no jets, ships, defense, or space program!
Over the last 200 years, when the world populated from 1 to 8 billion, we learned that crude oil is virtually useless unless it’s manufactured (refineries) into oil derivatives that are the basis of...
View ArticleWind Blows
The only thing dumber than onshore wind energy is offshore wind energy. The good news for ratepayers, taxpayers, birds, bats, landscapes, viewsheds, and the critically endangered North Atlantic Right...
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Implications of Shifts in Commuting
There has been much speculation about how travel behavior has changed in the wake of the COVID pandemic. The answer to that important question is now coming into view. Data from the American Community...
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A Polycentric Plan for St. Louis
St. Louis has more miles of light rail than any other Midwestern urban area, yet fewer people rode St. Louis transit in 2019 than in 1991, before the region opened its first mile of light rail....
View ArticleThe Dangerous Delusion of a Global Transition to "Just Electricity"
World leaders continue experiencing a “dangerous delusion” of a global transition to “just electricity” that they believe will eliminate the use of the crude oil that enabled society to achieve so much...
View ArticleAbout That Old Gallup Poll
I have alluded many times to the rather astonishing results of an old Gallup poll that I myself commissioned almost half a century ago.As readers may recall, the question asked was the following:As a...
View Article"New" Cities? An Old Idea
As a kid I used to draw imaginary cities all the time. I was inspired by a trip to Disney World when I was 11 years old and I saw the Magic Kingdom’s Main Street USA and EPCOT. Without even knowing the...
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New Battle Lines and a New Political Geography Down Under
On the 14th October 2023, Australians were asked to vote in a national (and compulsory) referendum to alter the Constitution “to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal...
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Michael Bloomberg's $1 Billion Assault on the Electrical Grid
Climate-related philanthropy in America has been hijacked by a radical agenda that will hurt the affordability, reliability, and resilience of the U.S. electric grid.More proof of that hijacking came...
View ArticleA Polycentric Plan for Portland
Portland’s TriMet transit agency is attempting to serve a 2020s urban area with a 1910 transit system, says a new report published by the Cascade Policy Institute. The agency’s infatuation with rail...
View ArticleWhy Jews Are Abandoning the Left
For much of the past century, Jews across Britain, North America and Europe tilted decisively to the left. The recent atrocities committed by Hamas against Israel have challenged that trend, with...
View ArticleSweden Risks Falling Behind the Technology Race
For a long time, Sweden has been a leading innovation economy, known around the world for its technological competences. My first personal association of Sweden, as a child before I came to Europe, was...
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