Right-Wing Anti-Semitism Still Haunts the West
In a post-7 October world, many have finally woken up to the reality that the locus of anti-Semitic sentiment now resides on the left. This is the case virtually everywhere in the West, particularly...
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Four Decades of Work Access (Commuting) in Los Angeles
This article describes work access in the Los Angeles combined statistical area (Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties) from 1980 to 2022, using US Census Bureau data. The...
View ArticleKamala America?
The last six weeks in American politics have been more tumultuous than anything I can remember in my lifetime. If you have been napping, here’s a rundown of the headline events.On June 27, Donald Trump...
View ArticleIn Praise of Sprawl
Delayed decision-making, bureaucratic dithering, and the stubborn resistance of NIMBYs have all been frequently cited as planning-related barriers to the development of much-needed housing. Seldom,...
View ArticleThe Emergence of the Post-Religious Right
The Republican Party’s 2024 platform removed language calling for a national ban on abortion, causing consternation among social conservatives.But this should surprise no one. The emergence of a...
View ArticleHas Transit Entered the "Death Spiral"?
Transit ridership dropped sharply with the onset of the COVID pandemic in 2020. The slow rebound in the years that followed has prompted discussion, sometimes in hushed tones, as to whether transit had...
View ArticleThe Midwest: Talent, Ambition, and Culture
Last weekend there was a debate taking place on a very small corner of the Internet. It was about the Midwest’s culture and its impact on growth and development prospects.Before I get to the sides of...
View ArticleAmerica is Turning Into the EU
Europe may be fading from global relevance, but its influence is expanding within the US Democratic Party. Today, the party’s core beliefs echo those espoused by the European Union and much of the...
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Global Power Demand is Soaring
Electricity is the world’s most important and fastest-growing form of energy. More proof for that assertion came a few days ago when the International Energy Agency released its “Electricity Mid-Year...
View ArticleWhat Happened to My Party?
I grew up among people who worshipped the key pillars of the twentieth century Democratic Party: the New Deal, Franklin Roosevelt, and the great public works project known as New York City. The...
View ArticleA Concerning AI Experience
Artificial intelligence (AI) has significant potential and I have been pleased to use it frequently, over the past year or so since it first became generally available. I have learned, however, as is...
View ArticleBoomers Have Left the Economy in Tatters, Driving Youth to the Right
Like counterparts around the world, Canada’s youth are struggling, victims of a weak economy and a rising cost of living crisis. Whereas boomers rode an unprecedented wave of prosperity and higher...
View ArticleFive Reasons to Be Bullish on the United States
Several years ago, when the sex scandals were rocking the Catholic Church, I talked to a local parish priest about the decline in the church’s credibility. He listened patiently. He didn’t argue about...
View ArticleThe Californication of the Democratic Party
Over the past few weeks, however, lunchbucket Joe from Scranton has been unceremoniously dumped by the Golden State elite — Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, George Clooney and a passel of tech oligarchs — to...
View ArticleAffinity Group Migration and the Quest for Community
It’s no secret that loneliness is a problem for many people, and that many are aching to find real friendship and community.It’s also common knowledge that many people are engaging in what we might...
View ArticleKamala Harris: Creature of the Oligarchy
Kamala Harris and her new sidekick, Minnesota governor Tim Walz, have opened their vibes-based campaign with a faux-populist platform. Included in this are plans for a massive expansion of federal...
View ArticleWho Is Directing the War on Agriculture and Nutrition?
Elite billionaire organizations and foundations, government agencies, and activist pressure groups are funding and coordinating a global war on modern agriculture, nutrition, and Earth’s poorest,...
View ArticleHow Will We Survive the Sex War?
Throughout history, the happy convergence of men and women — and their by-product, children — has driven human civilisation. No less than Freud saw this need for family as intrinsic: “Eros and Ananke...
View ArticleWhere Are The Pro-Nuclear Democrats?
About 15 years ago, I visited a high-ranking official at the Department of Energy at his office in Washington. We chatted for 30 minutes about the obstacles facing nuclear energy deployment in the US,...
View ArticleFrom Settler Colonialism to a New Post-Colonial Settlement
In this era of heightened racial and ethnic tension, few academic concepts have enjoyed as much success as “settler colonialism.” Notably articulated by the Australian anthropologist Patrick Wolfe in...
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