The Coming Strangulation of Free Speech
It’s the First Amendment for a reason: free speech is a fundamental prerequisite for liberal democracy. But The Guardian, with logic that Stalin would have appreciated, insists the concern over free...
View ArticleMore Solar Silliness in The New York Times
Hyping solar energy is one of America’s most renewable resources. For instance, in 1978, Ralph Nader declared that “everything will be solar in 30 years.” In 1979, President Jimmy Carter declared the...
View ArticleThe Phony Populism of Harris and Trump
In the coming US presidential election, the key battleground lies with the working and middle classes. The professional elites and the dependent poor are all but guaranteed to back Kamala Harris and...
View ArticleSarah Lawrence College’s Answer to Anti-Semitism? Submit a Form and Move On
Last week, the shopping period for my classes at Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) was disrupted on Zoom by a “Divestment Coalition” of campus groups, including the Sarah Lawrence Socialist Coalition and...
View ArticleGasoline Does the Lindy Effect
Last week, I took my 2012 Acura to my longtime auto repair shop, Rising Sun Automotive, for an oil change. Since we were going on a road trip, I asked the shop manager to check the car out and ensure...
View ArticleImmigration Has Benefits and Drawbacks
Overall, immigration has both positive and negative effects, something rarely acknowledged by advocates on either side. An intelligent approach would try to minimize the negatives, for example by...
View ArticleAustin Builds Apartments and Single-Family Houses, Prices Fall
Just a quick note on an encouraging article by James Rodriguez of Business Insider. Rodriguez reports a significant reduction in house prices in Austin, Texas, due to building a large number of...
View ArticleDon't Buy Kamala Harris's Blue Collar Rhetoric
It appears to be a rule of modern politics that politicians must pander to voters. The latest example of this is Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’s proposed $100-billion manufacturing plan, in an...
View ArticleChicago's Household And Income Growth Comes With A Good Deal Of Black Flight
Sometimes you try to put a positive gloss on a situation, but the underlying concerns that cause the need for such spin come back to bite you.Earlier this week I wrote an upbeat piece on Chicago that...
View ArticleTally of U.S. Wind & Solar Rejections Hits 735
You won’t read much about this in major media outlets, but nearly every week, local communities across the US are rejecting or restricting solar and wind projects. The latest rejection occurred a few...
View ArticleKamalafornia Über Alles
For the last century, no state more epitomized the ideals of upward mobility and technological and cultural innovation than California. Once on the distant fringe of America, the Golden State has...
View ArticleI'm Not an Urbanist. I'm an Urban Sociologist.
I’ve written a lot about how growing up in Detroit was instrumental in my desire to improve and revitalize cities. Watching a city being hollowed out and disgraced in the ‘70s and ‘80s can have that...
View ArticleSweden Proves Khaldun-Laffer Right
In Europe there is a strong general trend in which high-tax nations stagnate economically, while economic growth is shifting towards member states with lower taxation levels, talent supply and business...
View ArticleThe West Has Turned its Back on Jews
In the wake of last year’s 7 October pogrom, and amid rapidly rising anti-Semitism, most Jews are even more convinced of the importance of the Jewish State and the need for greater solidarity. As...
View ArticleCanada Total Fertility Rate (TFR) Drops to 1.26, BC to 1.00
Statistics Canada, Canada’s government statistical agency, has announced that the nation’s Total Fertility Rate dropped to 1.26 in 2023. This is a reduction from 1.33 in 2022.Statistics Canada supplies...
View ArticleReligious Science
Suzie Bohlson sits in a sun-drenched California plaza, a pale, slight 53-year-old with a Ph.D. in biology from Notre Dame. Fifteen years ago, she converted to Catholicism, a surprising choice, perhaps,...
View ArticleFaster, Better, More: How to House Australia
This paper, by property expert Ross Elliott, explores the reasons behind our current housing shortages and identifies a range of policy measures which have contributed to – rather than alleviated – the...
View ArticleKamala Harris is Hiding the Truth about Her Real Plan for America
In baseball as well as in American football, there’s something called the “hidden ball” trick, where a player hides the round object in order to befuddle the opposition. American politics is...
View ArticleGov Newsom’s unpopularity might have something to do with his extreme...
California’s emission mandates do an excellent job of increasing the cost of electricity, products, and fuels to its citizens. Not surprisingly, a recent Public Policy Institute of America survey...
View ArticleAn Inflation Hurricane Is Shorting The Electric Grid
The reports about the damage caused by Hurricane Helene and the amount of water dumped on the region by the storm are gobsmacking. Last week, my friend, Jimmy Fortuna, an energy industry executive who...
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