The West Has Been the Real Loser at COP28
As the COP 28 climate shindig comes to a merciful end, history is truly unfolding, as Marx once remarked, as farce. The perfect image of the conference in oil-rich United Arab Emirates will always be...
View ArticleHow to Kill a Country
Much of Seoul is a sea of high-rises. And not just Seoul: Busan and other cities in South Korea have lots of high rises. More than half of all South Korean households live in high rises, and well over...
View ArticleAs Antisemitism Surges on the Left Jews are Pushed to the Right
In the ever-shrinking world of the Jewish diaspora, Canada, along with Australia and the United States, hosts a most vital and comparatively healthy community. Yet in the midst of the current...
View ArticleWhy I Do Not Support Christian Nationalism
I personally am not that interested in the Christian nationalism debate, but the Claremont Institute’s American Mind site asked me to write up my take on it for a symposium on the topic.Before we can...
View ArticleMulti-culti Reckoning
The explosion of support for Hamas’s assault on human decency could well turn out to be the high-water mark of the progressive Left. The authoritarian multicultural ideology generated on campuses and...
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Summary of World Urban Population by Nation and Region
Defining "Built-Up Urban Area"The term urban area refers to a continuously built landmass devoted to urban development. Unlike metropolitan areas, urban areas have no rural land within their...
View ArticleYou Thought Joe Biden Was Bad? Look at his Democratic Rivals
Joe Biden’s sinking poll numbers are inciting panic among Democratic Party insiders, not to mention the progressive tech oligarchs who bankrolled his 2020 campaign. As the President rages about his...
View ArticleTwo Days After COP28, IEA Delivers More Coal Hard Reality
Like The Dude in The Big Lebowski, coal abides.Last Friday, two days after the COP28 meeting in Dubai ended, the International Energy Agency reported that global coal demand will set another new record...
View ArticleThe Future of Cities
“America’s treasured cities,” writes semi-libertarian Jeffrey Tucker, are in “grave danger.” He believes that people are leaving cities to get away from “forced closures and then vaccine mandates and...
View ArticleThe Gloomy Future Facing Trade Unions
Few developments have more cheered progressive activists than the perceived resurgence of labor unions. This has been sparked by largely symbolic efforts to unionize in places such as Starbucks and...
View ArticleProperty: The Myth That Built the World
Joel Kotkin reviews the recently released book, Property: The Myth That Built the World, by Rowan Moore. The review is excerpted below:For most of human history, from the ancient Semitic civilisations...
View ArticleMichigan Dems Big Foot the Locals
When it comes to zoning and property rights in rural America, Big Wind and Big Solar can count on Democratic legislators to carry their water.The latest proof of that came on November 3, when...
View ArticleThe Road to Autocracy
Ernst Nolte’s Three Faces of Fascism examined the three devastating ideologies that led to the undermining of European democracy in the 1930s. Today, democratic life is also under threat – and there...
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Silicon Valley Transit Plan
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) and its predecessors serving San Jose and Silicon Valley have spent more than $7 billion (in today’s dollars) on rail transit. Yet it carried fewer...
View ArticleAmerica is Unprepared to Fight a War on Three Fronts
In our short-attention-span world, we seem to only be able to comprehend one war at a time. But our moment has thrown up conflicts across the globe: Israel versus Hamas, Russians versus Ukrainians, or...
View ArticleFederal Judge Sides With Osage Nation, Orders Removal Of 84 Wind Turbines
The Osage Nation won a massive ruling in Tulsa federal court on Wednesday that requires Enel to dismantle a 150-megawatt wind project it built in Osage County despite the tribe’s repeated objections....
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Whatever Works
Sometimes a story takes a number of years to ripen. And sometimes two or three stories merge in unexpected ways. I just had a moment of convergence when new infill development, sub rosa adaptation, and...
View ArticlePandemic Migration Patterns Continue
A net 338,000 people who resided in California on July 1, 2022 had left the state by July 1, 2023, according to population estimates released by the Census Bureau last week. This follows a loss of...
View ArticleWhy the Right is Eating the Left's Lunch
The Western world is experiencing the most dramatic political realignment since the rise of socialism over a century ago. The driving force then was the rise of the working class, created by the...
View ArticleIllinois: Skilled Moving In, Unskilled Moving Out — At a New Loss
Too often, people interpret population numbers at face value and make a determination of a place’s success or failure based on absolute numbers. Population went up? Place is doing great. Population...
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