Heavier EVs Tear Up California Roadways But Pay Nothing for Road Maintenance
Can it be true that California, in pursuit of reduced emissions from internal combustion engine vehicles, has mandated that heavier EV cars and trucks tear up the state’s roads? Shockingly, the state...
View ArticlePlanners Plan
It’s in the job title: Planner.Most government planners — pretty much the transport and housing sectors are what we are discussing today — became planners to meet their personal need to impose order on...
View ArticleTransit’s Growth, Decline, and Pending Demise
Who said the following? “The basic objective of our Nation’s transportation system must be to assure the availability of the fast, safe, and economical transportation services needed in a growing and...
View ArticleWhy Are Americans Becoming More Stupid?
“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind,” said Winston Churchill. And judging by the state of education in America, it seems both of those empires could soon crumble. The dysfunction is...
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Hong Kong 2021 Census: The Evolving Urban Form
According to the 2021 census, Hong Kong grew from a population of 7.337 million in 2016 to 7.413 million. This article describes the population and population densities of Hong Kong and its major...
View ArticleTeachers Unions Have Turned Our Schools into Woke Brainwashing Camps
You have to be utterly delusional – or a member of a teacher’s union – to think that the US education system isn’t a total disaster. The most recent National Assessments of Educational Progress (NAEP,...
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Out of Transmission Revisited
The “energy transition” depends on massive expansions of our high-voltage transmission grid. But capacity additions are falling, and per-mile costs and utility product costs are soaring.Proponents of...
View ArticleNYU in Oklahoma? What a Great Idea
When I heard that New York University (NYU) was creating a new campus not in some global capital but in Oklahoma—the fairly conservative west-south-central region of the United States—I was shocked,...
View ArticleCalifornia Deficit Soars to $73 Billion
Incredibly, the Democratic establishment still looks to Gavin Newsom as their answer to Joe Biden. Yet frothy accounts of the California Governor’s record are about as accurate as a Google AI treatment...
View ArticleNew Panic Over Farmlands
The Department of Agriculture’s latest Census of Agriculture has generated new fears about “disappearing farm lands.” The census found that the United States had 22 million (2.8 percent) fewer acres of...
View ArticleCosmopolis or Bust?
Three decades ago, author Steve Toulmin published a book in which he argued that the cosmopolis constitutes the true “agenda of modernity.” Driven by increased trade and movement of peoples, it would...
View ArticleOil Exporting and Poorer Countries Have Lower Costs for Gasoline
The political class obsession in the wealthy countries to lower emissions with subsidizing expensive and utterly unreliable breezes and sunshine to generate electricity, and divesting in fossil fuels,...
View ArticleDensity and Fertility
Nearly three months ago, I suggested that trying to get people to live in high-density housing projects was a good way to “kill a country” by reducing fertility rates. Not everyone was persuaded; one...
View ArticleThe Myth of America's Decline
North America may suffer from some of the world’s poorest political leadership. Yet it seems destined to remain the wealthiest, most dominant place on Earth.This may come as a surprise to many. After...
View ArticleThe Difficulty of Bursting Bubbles
I have been teaching at the collegiate level for almost two decades. One of the biggest challenges I now face compared to years ago is social media’s toxic influence on students. The rampant...
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Americans Moving to More Affordable Areas
In recent years, driven by the rising cost of living and the remote work revolution, Americans have been moving to more affordable housing markets. This is evident in an analysis of American Community...
View ArticleGolden Land
In a way unimaginable in Europe, or even the eastern United States, the Golden State has long been, as one nineteenth century Gentile observer put it, “the Jews’ earthly paradise.” California, settled...
View ArticleAmerica's Energy Scam a Deliberate Exploitation of Humanity
America is aggressively pursuing “green” electricity and actively phasing out crude oil to reduce emissions generated in America by deliberately increasing worldwide exploitations of humanity,...
View ArticleWoke Big Tech Launched a Crusade Against Free Speech
The technological revolution once promised a new era of expanded democracy and enhanced opportunity. Instead, we face today a reality that blends the worst aspects of George Orwell’s Big Brother and...
View ArticleHere's What Conservative Institutional Capture Looks Like
One of the principles I keep highlighting between left and right is asymmetry.The left and right have different values, operate in different ways, and are in different positions in society.Hence, if...
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