Transit Carries 74% of 2019 Riders in January
Driving and flying have been hovering around 100 percent of pre-pandemic levels for the last year and Amtrak has been around 100 percent for the last six months, but transit is still stuck at just...
View ArticleToronto Falls Into Pit of Urban Decline that's Plagued U.S. Cities
For years, American urbanists and city planners have looked at Canadian cities with envy, as they had managed to avoid the searing decline of their American counterparts. And Toronto was where the late...
View ArticleRethinking the Housing Affordability Crisis, Part 3
Back in 2018, I attended and participated in an event called “Tools Toward Market Restoration”, hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. The event was held in Detroit. At the event I got a chance...
View Article2024 Will Be the Latino Election
The key voting bloc in American politics is not the black or Evangelical vote – it’s the Latinos. Now by far the largest racial minority in the nation, Latinos are also the great contested electoral...
View ArticleModern Forest Management
Since the year 2000, according to the California Air Resources Board, wildfires have destroyed over 19 million acres, mostly forest and chaparral, over 30,000 square miles. At the same time, these...
View ArticleIs There an Urban Future?
Talk of the future of (some) cities these days can bring out the pessimists, who warn of an “urban doom loop.” Yet just as the urbanistas overestimated the “back to the city” movement, they also may be...
View ArticleLast Shot at New Golf in Greater Hamptons
When an 18-hole golf club—private and exclusive—opens in the next few years at the controversial Lewis Road luxury development in East Quogue, it will mark the latest and probably the last of 135 years...
View ArticleHow AI Helps Tech Giants
Artificial intelligence (AI) and its related technologies — machine learning and the metaverse — represent a watershed in the evolution of the global economy. Like other such shifts, its emergence is...
View ArticleCalifornia's Electricity Disaster in Seven Charts
California’s energy woes are getting worse. According to the latest numbers from the Energy Information Administration, the state’s residential electricity prices, already among the highest in America,...
View ArticleBlue States Should Let ESG Die
Life is going from bad to worse for the ESG movement. This weekend, activist investor Bluebell Capital began a new battle to try and force BlackRock into overhauling its commitments to environmental,...
View ArticleWhy I'm Bullish on Generation Z
Generation Z gets a lot of bad press. We are constantly hearing about how smart phones have wrecked their psyches. We hear about how fragile they are, how much trauma they have, etc.Despite the very...
View ArticleBiden's Climate Plan is a Threat to Democracy
For a policy that requires sacrifice, at least for the masses, the climate agenda lacks one critical element: public support. Even in ultra-green Europe, there is a growing resistance among politicians...
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Europe More "Auto-Dependent" Than U.S.
Before the pandemic, Europeans relied on automobiles for 70 percent of their travel, compared with 77 percent for U.S. residents. But after the pandemic, in 2021, the European share of passenger travel...
View ArticleThe Democratic Party is Now Indisputably Woke
The passing this last week of Joe Lieberman, a long-time Connecticut Senator and former vice-presidential candidate, stands as reminder of how far the Democrats have moved from the kind of centrist...
View ArticleCSY Opinion Piece In Crain's Chicago Business
(Note: Last week I was fortunate enough to have an opinion piece written by Ed Zotti and myself published in Crain's Chicago Business. It's on the continuing loss of Chicago's Black middle class, at...
View ArticleThe Coming Revolt Against Woke Capitalism
The greatest threat to Western civilisation comes not from China, Russia or Islamists, but from the very people who rank among its greatest beneficiaries. In virtually every field, the midwives of our...
View ArticleNYC Must Stop Destroying Its Institutions
Due to budget concerns, New York City Mayor Eric Adams proposed cuts to the New York City public library budgets, forcing the majority of public libraries to cut their hours and open only five days a...
View ArticleElectric Cars Will Decide the Outcome of the American Election
If Joe Biden loses to Donald Trump this November, he can apportion blame towards his administration’s many unforced errors, from the botched Afghanistan bug-out to the mess at the southern border. But...
View ArticleEnding the Phone Based Childhood
NYU professor Jonathan Haidt has a new book out called The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. The Atlantic recently posted a very...
View ArticleAmerica is Strangely Fond of Chemically Modifying its Children
The recent decision by the National Health Service to ban puberty blockers under prescription outside of upcoming clinical trials is a rare indication that common sense and biological reality are...
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