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The Cost of Opportunity Cost Blindness to Riders and Taxpayers
New research by Yadi Wang and David Levinson at the University of Sydney (Australia) casts considerable doubt on the outcomes of major transit projects in the United States (“The overlooked transport...
View ArticleHow to Shrink a Fortune
For generations, millions have come to California to make their fortunes, relying on the state’s own seemingly limitless fortune of natural resources, favorable climate, and economic opportunity. But...
View ArticleBone Chilling
Chris Keefer, the Toronto-based physician and founder of Canadians for Nuclear Energy, calls the electric grid a “civilizational life support system.”Keefer, of course, is correct. The most critical...
View ArticleTransit Carried 74.9% of 2019 Riders in November
America’s transit systems carried nearly 75 percent as many riders in November 2023 as the same month in 2019, according to data released on Friday by the Federal Transit Administration. This is the...
View ArticleCounterPunch's Strange Claims Regarding Nuclear Power
There's likely no energy source that faces more criticism, hatred and counter-propaganda than nuclear power. It remains unclear to me why any technology should be the target of such intense scrutiny...
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Transportation Policy and the Ukrainians
The dominant philosophy that guides North American land use and transportation policy is advocacy of car ownership. The logic is simple. If you have a car you have automatic access to a wide variety of...
View ArticleThe California Whimper
As the glint of the Golden State - rub worn by misdirection, doubt, and fear - fades just another little bit each day and its diminishment to darkness slinks on cat feet over the Sierras to hollow out...
View ArticleRFK Jr.’s Popularity Shows that Americans Aren’t Despairing (yet)
Amid the muck created by America’s two inadequate presidential frontrunners, green shoots are rising. They may not grow to maturity this year, but the basis for the emergence of better political...
View ArticleNovember Driving 1.2% More Than in 2019
Americans drove 1.2 percent more miles in November of 2023 than in the same month in 2019, according to data released by the Federal Highway Administration yesterday. Rural driving was 6 percent...
View ArticleThe Coming War of Civilizations
Media coverage of world events focuses on one crisis at a time, as if each was a separate phenomenon. But Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas war, the assaults on shipping in the Red Sea, China’s threats on...
View ArticleI Used to Believe Planning was R&D for City-Building
Frequent readers here may have seen me write about my experience growing up in 1970s Detroit. I’ve often said that seeking ways to improve the city and not abandon it, is what propelled me into a...
View ArticleLet America Sprawl
Americans, with little help from government, are reinventing themselves and boosting their prospects by settling in less expensive, less regulated regions where rents and house prices are more...
View ArticleThe Electric Grid Explained In 10 Charts
The late German philosopher Martin Heidegger was keen on the “thingness of things.” While researching Heidegger, I stumbled upon an essay by Bill Brown, who studies “thing theory.” In that 2016 essay,...
View ArticleTrudeau has Weakened Canada — and by Extension, the Entire Free World
At a time when the western world desperately needs some backbone, Canada seems to be swaying. It appears to have moved away from its long-term commitment to protect our now wobbling western...
View ArticleClimate Child Labor – Who Cares?
The ruling class, powerful elite, and the media lack some energy literacy which may be the reasons they avoid conversations about the ugly side of “green” mandates and subsidies. Before anyone in...
View ArticleCalifornia: Where Freedom Goes to Die
California was once a byword for liberty and opportunity. The so-called Golden State was home first to the Gold Rush, then to Hollywood and then to the tech revolution in Silicon Valley. Californians...
View ArticleElites Want to Ban Gasoline Cars, Gas Stoves
Urban elites are far more likely than other Americans to oppose gasoline powered cars, SUVs of all types, and gas stoves, according to a survey released last week by the Committee to Unleash...
View ArticleBeauty Is Not Just in the Eye of the Beholder
Physical beauty is a big part of what we find attractive in the opposite sex. The degree to which beauty determines how attracted we are does differ by sex. Whereas men are heavily attracted to youth...
View ArticleAre the Chicago White Sox Moving to the South Loop?
Does the Chicago White Sox brass read the Corner Side Yard? Don’t know if they do, but they sure seem to be familiar with my work.It was reported in Wednesday's Chicago Sun-Times that the White Sox are...
View ArticleGlobalists are Using Green Energy to Destroy Our Way of Life
In 10 years before the proverbial 2035 date when many mandated transitions to “green electricity” occur to reduce or eliminate the usage of fossil fuels, most of today’s elected officials, policy...
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