What's Happening in Oregon and Vermont?
A few weeks ago, I noted that there appeared to be correlation between government efforts to get more people into multifamily housing and low fertility rates. The correlation is not perfect — I...
View ArticleGavin Newsom Turned the California Dream into a Woke Nightmare
It takes a kind of malignant genius to destroy California, but the state’s ruling elites are well on their way to assure its decline. If the downward spiral continues, it will stand as a testament to...
View ArticleProgress Traps, Snap Crap, and A Plasma Bank Called Freedom
There is a strip mall not a stone’s throw away from my house that contains a Georgio’s pizza, a daycare center, and a plasma bank called “Freedom”. I live in a neighborhood in Cleveland that has a...
View ArticleJuice: Power, Politics & The Grid - Video Series
After finishing our first documentary in 2019, I told myself I was done making films. The process of making documentaries takes too long, costs too much, and involves too much friction, particularly...
View ArticleBiden's War on Fossil Fuels is Hurting America
When Joe Biden assumed office in 2021, the progressive press hoped, as the LA Times crowed, that he would “turn America into California again”. To the great loss of America, the West and, of course,...
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The Benefits of Congestion Relief
Data published by the University of Minnesota Accessibility Observatory a few months ago reveals some of the benefits of congestion relief that resulted from the COVID pandemic. I’ve used 2019 data in...
View Article"Electrify Everything" Slammed Again By Ninth Circuit
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has cranked up the heat on the “electrify everything” foolishness.Last month, the Ninth Circuit denied the city of Berkeley's petition to re-hear its case after the...
View ArticleRethinking the Housing Affordability Crisis, Part 1
Let’s talk about the nation’s housing affordability crisis.I recently downloaded some 2023 third quarter data from the National Association of Realtors. Nationally, NAR reported that the median sales...
View ArticleFord Lost $4.7B on EVs Last Year
How bad is the EV business? Yesterday afternoon, Ford Motor Company reported that the operating loss it incurred on its EV business in 2023 exceeded its total profit for the year.That shocking fact...
View ArticleA Piece of Civic Infrastructure That Works
How communities choose to shape their built environment and neighborhoods can powerfully impact a place’s sense of connectedness and how local relationships develop. However, in our time of digital...
View Article'Decolonized' Universities Dividing Canadians
For generations, education has been a primary means to make countries like Canada and the United States stronger, more productive, and self-confident. Now the education system is not only failing to...
View ArticleRethinking the Housing Affordability Crisis, Part 2
If you haven't read Part 1 yet, you can find it here.Yonah Freemark, a senior research associate with the Urban Institute in Washington, DC, is someone I had the occasion of meeting a couple times in...
View ArticleSouth Africa's Coal Question
“With coal almost any feat is possible or easy; without it we are thrown back into the laborious poverty of early times.” (The Coal Question William Stanley Jevons, 1865).Is this quote still valid,...
View ArticleUnhinged Progressives Are a Gift to Trump
In 1931, the slogan of the German Communist Party became: ‘After Hitler, our turn.’ This kind of wishful thinking is making a comeback in contemporary America. Prominent Democrats and the ‘progressive’...
View ArticleThe Dangerous Gender Gap on Collegiate Campuses Today
Politically, men and women are growing farther apart and data is regularly confirming this story. Gen Z men have become more conservative over time, while Gen Z women have become more liberal. Young...
View ArticleBiden's Climate Change Reparations Will Bankrupt America
Perhaps nothing better illustrates the backwards nature of our time than the drive for reparations. This includes not only payment for race discrimination, but also for the impacts of climate change....
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The Remote Work Revolution
Although remote work was increasing modestly before the pandemic, we are now enmeshed into what can be fully considered a “remote work revolution. In the United States, the number of people indicating...
View ArticleDowntown San Francisco is Beyond Redemption
The recent announcement that Ian Jacobs, a scion of the famous Toronto-based Reichmann real estate clan, was coming to buy upwards of $900 million of San Francisco real estate, has offered the...
View ArticleThe Wealth Gap Survey
How much of a difference does your upbringing make to your life? It’s a question that’s been debated for ages and, in a world with a greater focus on equity, the wealth gap within society is under the...
View ArticleClass of '24
Most political coverage in America revolves around personalities, stratagems, and the cultural issues that appeal to the activist class in both parties. Yet the real determinant in 2024 will not be...
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