Environmentalists' Silence on Humanity and Environmental Atrocities
While wind and solar do not emit carbon dioxide, there are substantial environmental degradation and humanity atrocities occurring in China, Africa, Turkey, Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile. The materials...
View ArticleBiden's Grid Wars are a Direct Assault on the Western Middle Class
As in the Medieval past, scarcity will likely define our present, facilitated by our “net zero” economy. This brave new world will support fewer people, juggling between them expensive resources, less...
View ArticleSome Truths About Higher Education
Over the past decade, I have been affiliated with Columbia University as a professor, collaborator, and, most recently, a visitor. There was often an undercurrent of antisemitism throughout the campus...
View ArticleBuild It, and the Wind Won't Come
Three years ago, in the wake of Winter Storm Uri, the alt-energy lobby and their many allies in the media made sure not to blame wind energy for the Texas blackouts. The American Clean Power...
View ArticleWill the End of Protestantism Be the End of America?
French historian and demographer Emmanuel Todd was the first person to have predicted the fall of the Soviet Union. He noted that, unusually, its infant mortality rate was rising, and that they had...
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The Future is Latino: Part I
From the earliest days of European settlement, Latinos have played a crucial role in the remarkable ascendancy of California. However, as they become the majority of the state’s population, workforce,...
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Shortchanging The Future: California Fails Its Latino Students
In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education declared that “the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very...
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Latinos and the California Housing Crisis
My extended family spans from third to seventh generation Mexican immigrants. Most of us expect to work hard, provide for our families, and hope our children do better than we did. However, in a total...
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Public Policies to Empower Latinos in California
The Gonzalez family’s immigrant journey from Mexico to California began in the late 1970s with a modest corner market in Anaheim. Today, Northgate Gonzalez Market has evolved into a billion-dollar food...
View ArticleThe Economy, Not Palestine, Will Undo Joe Biden
This week’s surge in workers seeking unemployment benefits should be a sign that America’s already weakening economy, and much slower job growth, could prove the key to this year’s election. Indeed,...
View ArticleWhat the Media Won't Tell You About the Energy Transition
Over the past few days, I’ve searched the NewsBank archive for uses of “energy transition.” One of the earliest uses of that now-ubiquitous phrase occurred in the Christian Science Monitor in 1981. In...
View ArticleJews Cannot Afford to Be Divided Over Israel
Jews, like elephants, tend to have long memories. We see in the past warnings of the future. As Israel marks its 76th birthday on 14 May, perhaps the most relevant and terrifying precedent comes from...
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North America Dominates Deep Tech, But WIll It Last?
During the 20th century global prosperity was focused to where technological development was happening, and this has also been the pattern for the initial decades of the 21st century. The development...
View ArticleA Summer Assignment: Talk to Different People
The summer recess is approaching and I would like to suggest an extra-curricular activity for college students: go somewhere different, away from campus, somewhere unlike home, and talk to new people...
View ArticleIf Trump Wants to Win the Election He Must Reject MAGA Sycophants
The wannabe Trump vice-presidents have made a sad spectacle of themselves, genuflecting in support for their morally deficient leader in what has to be one of the least edifying trials in history....
View ArticleDefining Rust Belt Urbanism
Here’s one representation of the Rust Belt. However, just like with definitions of the Midwest overall, people usually identify where they live in the region as the center of it.The Rust Belt has been...
View ArticleTrudeau, Biden Paying Political Price as the West Turns Against Immigration
U.S. President Joe Biden, in one of his regularly inept utterances, recently castigated Japan and other East Asian countries for being “xenophobic,” compared to the relatively immigrant-friendly United...
View ArticleMarch Driving 101.4% of 2019
Americans drove almost 1.5 percent more miles in March of 2024 than in the March before the pandemic, according to data released yesterday by the Federal Highway Administration. Miles of driving have...
View ArticleProgressive Geography's Intellectual Dead End
Americans are familiar with steep political divisions on issues like race, class, and gender. Perhaps less understood, but arguably more definitive, is the widening gap between the cognitive elites...
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Environmentalism in America is Dead
Environmentalism in America is dead. It has been replaced by climatism and renewable energy fetishism.The movement birthed by Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in the early 1960s and Earth Day in the 1970s...
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