What If Chicago Had Been Awarded the 2016 Olympics? Part 2
Read Part 1When I asked the “what if” question about Chicago being awarded the 2016 Olympics, it was just prior to the event itself. I noted some possible outcomes of a Chicago Olympics, but eight...
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Americans Accelerate Move Away from Density
For more than 75 years America has been dispersing away from dense urban cores, with nearly all population growth in neighborhoods with a suburban form, whether inside urban core cities (Note 1) or...
View ArticleHow to Remain the Innovation Nation
The United States’ preeminence in science and technology has long played an underappreciated but vital role in ensuring U.S. economic and geopolitical leadership. But the United States risks...
View ArticleA Golden State Realignment?
Elon Musk has just announced that he will move the headquarters of both SpaceX and X from California to Texas, citing Governor Gavin Newsom’s signing of a new law banning parental notification by...
View ArticleSurveillance and Society: Building Trust in an Era of AI-Powered Monitoring
The recent advance of artificial intelligence represents a paradigm shift in the way the world works. Once unwieldy data sets can now be properly analyzed in the blink of an eye, artists can brush up...
View ArticleTrump is Dividing America's Oligarchs
The shot heard around the world may have been aimed at Donald Trump’s head, but it could also put extra cash in his pocket. In the aftermath of last weekend’s assassination attempt, two prominent...
View ArticleWhat If Chicago Had Been Awarded the 2016 Olympics? Part 3
Read Part 1. Read Part 2.Time to answer that question: what would a 2016 Olympics meant to Chicago? After looking at the examples of the last two American Olympics, in Los Angeles in 1984 and Atlanta...
View ArticleAfter Biden the Democrats Should Welcome Defeat
Had Joe Biden remained the Democrats’ presidential candidate, the party would have faced the prospect of a loss, even a drubbing, in November’s election. But with the President’s withdrawal from the...
View ArticleOffshore Wind Scandal is Worse Than You Think
Two of Europe’s biggest energy companies are abandoning the SS Offshore Wind.In May, Shell, the UK-based oil and gas giant (2023 revenue: $317 billion), announced that it was cutting staff from its...
View ArticleDemocrats All Too Happy to Dismiss Political Violence of the Left
The shot that grazed Donald Trump’s ear is just another reminder of how the United States, unique among the dominant English-speaking countries, remains subject to both actual violence and threats of...
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More on the Flight from Density: Within Major Metropolitan Areas
The new data on net domestic migration between major metropolitan areas (more than 1,000,000 residents) over the last three years (July 2020 to July 2023) shows a strong movement of people away from...
View ArticleThis is the End of the Democratic Party as We Knew It
The end of Joe Biden’s presidency also signals the demise of the old Democratic Party, with its roots in liberal ideals and advocacy for ‘the common man’. Although Biden, to his own detriment, chose to...
View ArticleKamala Harris's California Record Will Haunt Her
A recent Politico article breathlessly reported on Kamala Harris’s enhanced standing as the newly anointed “favourite daughter” of the Bay Area political cabal, led by Nancy Pelosi, powerful Silicon...
View ArticleKamala Harris is More Radical on Her Energy Policies than Joe Biden!
Kamala Harris is oblivious to humanity’s addiction to oil as she is to these two basic facts:1. No one uses crude oil in its raw form. “Big Oil” only exists because of humanity’s addiction to the...
View ArticleThe Triumph of Red States
Forget the presidential election. The real contest about the future direction of the country has already taken place, and it’s the red states that are clearly winning.What we are witnessing is not so...
View ArticleThe Baby Recession Continues as Births Drop to Lowest Level in Almost Two...
KPMG Australia analysis shows the country is in the midst of a baby recession as births across the country fall by 4.6 per cent year on year. The number of births in 2023 was the lowest since 2006 as...
View ArticleThe Puzzle of Generational Politics
Age is a big deal. We saw just how big a deal it is from the deterioration of President Biden evident during the recent debate with Donald Trump. There’s a growing sense that the world is being run by...
View ArticleWhy Louisiana Was Unwise to Mandate the Ten Commandments in Classrooms
The state of Louisiana just passed a law mandating the the Ten Commandments be put on display in public school classrooms in the state.I believe this law is unwise, reflects a poor understanding of...
View ArticleDowntowns Don't Matter Anymore
Joseph Lawler’s learned essay on induced demand, looking at the case of highway expansion in Austin, Texas, is fair-minded, but somehow seems more about theory than actual reality. He talks about...
View ArticleWaging War on Modern Agriculture and Global Nutrition
The World Economic Forum says the world faces a new crisis, "One-third of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions come from food production." With the world's population expected to reach 10 billion...
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