A Factory in the Countryside Run on Part-time Jobs?
It has often been observed that many a new revolutionary idea, no matter how true it turns out to be, looks completely crazy at first. In this post I shall make the case that the idea of factories in...
View ArticleTrudeau's Green Jihad Holding Canada Back
Coming from a country that may soon choose to be led by either a cognitively challenged second-rate codger or a vengeful lunatic, one would like to look north, to Canada, for some inspiration.This is...
View ArticleNo Amount of Money is Too Much
Is there any transit construction project that is so expensive that a transit agency will say, “Let’s not do this”? The Antiplanner has argued that the answer is “no”; instead, the only question...
View ArticleNew Metropolitan Area Delineation: New York, Chicago and Washington Contract
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has released a new metropolitan area delineation. Metropolitan areas are composed of counties. Connecticut recently abolished its counties, which...
View ArticleWhat Are Economies For?
What is the purpose of a nation’s economy? Is it to maximize the wealth and power of its governing elites, no matter the consequences for the rest of the population? How about to relieve poverty in the...
View ArticleThe Jewish Civil War Over Israel
While Jews often seem clannish to outsiders, the reality is somewhat different: we have always suffered from a divisive streak of self-destructiveness. As far back as the levelling of the Temple and...
View ArticleFederal Data Shows, Again, That The Electrify Everything Push Means Higher...
Some of America’s richest NGOs are pushing policies that ban the direct use of natural gas in homes and businesses. While they claim the ban on gas is needed to address climate change, these bans will...
View ArticleThe West Cannot Accept Gazan Refugees
The stunning victory of anti-Muslim Dutch politician Geert Wilders suggests that the notion of a proposed “Muslim ban”, tamping down on immigration from Islamic countries, is no longer outside the...
View ArticleWhen City Streets Really Are War Zones
In 2020, U.S. cities experienced a 30% increase in homicides relative to 2019, with firearms becoming the leading cause of death for children, adolescents and young adults for the first time in our...
View ArticleThe West is Turning Away from COP28's Green Agenda
The UN’s COP28 climate conference has always been more political than scientific. But now more than ever, the green agenda looks to be in jeopardy.Whatever you may read in the establishment press, the...
View ArticleWill Reducing Parking Save the Planet?
As stated previously, I can’t take climate change seriously as long as people keep putting forward their wacko ideas that they had long before climate was an issue as “the solution.” The latest example...
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Letting Go of Nostalgia Urbanism
Everyone has a natural habitat. For some people it’s a big house in the suburbs. For others it’s a cabin in the woods. Some people thrive in a high rise tower in the central business district. Mine is...
View ArticleCop Out
On Thursday morning, I spoke to the Nebraska Rural Electric Association in Kearney. Before my speech, I chatted with my friend, Chet McWhorter, the general manager of the Cuming County Public Power...
View ArticleIs Gen Z Turning Against Western Civilization?
The younger generations seem increasingly crazed. A worrying proportion of the young sympathises with those who launch terror attacks against Israel, supports the immediate elimination of fossil fuels...
View ArticleWhy Can't We Have a Populism That Builds?
Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador, became a media sensation after releasing videos showing him transporting gang members he’d arrested to a new prison. He essentially just rounded up everyone who...
View ArticleJoe Biden Should Listen to Republicans on the Border Crisis
Perhaps no issue has damaged the Biden presidency more than the massive incursions of undocumented migrants across the border. Barely a quarter approve of his handling of the issue — a lower figure...
View ArticleDetroit's Riverwalk, and Waterfront Revivals
One of the positive things that many cities worldwide have done over the last half century is to transition the relics of their industrial era – the port facilities, the warehouses, railyards and more...
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The Kitchens of Distinction
I was a scholarship student in the UK thirty odd years ago and there was a semi-well known band at the time called The Kitchens of Distinction. I have no memory of what their music even sounded like,...
View ArticleThe New Green Feudalism
With the 2024 election looming on the horizon, the Democratic Party faces a contradiction. By some important measures, the US economy is booming—third-quarter GDP growth figures were recently adjusted...
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America’s 15-Minute Cities on Wheels: Fairer and More Efficient
The November 9 edition of The Economist magazine featured an article entitled “In praise of America’s car addiction: How vehicle dependence it makes the country fairer and more efficient.” It is hard...
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