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Western Nations Cripple Their Economies With Green Initiatives While China...

North America, with its vast resources, may be in a position to save the economies of the west. But governments on both sides of the border seem more concerned with green virtue signaling than actually...

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Moving Away from Density to Less Dense Detached Housing Areas

Further evidence of the continued dispersion of the US population is revealed by an examination of net domestic migration data and types of residences according to the American Community Survey,...

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Elon Musk and Woke Capital are in a Battle for the Future of America

In 16th century Japan, the Daimyo feudal lords, like their Medieval European counterparts, battled to secure control of the realm. Today, in the current US presidential race, a similar conflict has...

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How to Prepare America for Demographic Decline

America is in the early days of a vast demographic transition. In the coming decades, the U.S. population will grow far more slowly than ever before, and it will become much older and more racially...

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How the City of Angels Went to Hell

A journey through Los Angeles, the adopted home of Vice President Kamala Harris, offers a masterclass in urban dysfunction. As you drive through the streets of the southside, and along Central Avenue,...

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Looming ‘Clean’ Energy Disasters Off Our Coasts

Photos of oil-covered seals and birds from California’s 1969 Santa Barbara blowout helped launch the environmental and stop-oil movements. Some 90,000 barrels polluted ocean waters and yet, when I was...

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Can the West Survive Four Years of Harris or Trump?

Great empires always fall, pushed by their own leaders. Just think of the role played in Britain’s decline by the Liberals who blundered into the First World War, permanently crippling the world’s...

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The Midwest Needs International Immigration

Does America even believe anymore in the saying on the Statue of Liberty’s plaque: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free?” Maybe in a political sense they do, but...

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The West Faces a New Type of Housing Crisis

Throughout the West, particularly the Anglosphere, housing costs are ravaging the middle class. Homeownership, long the key to social mobility, is on the decline, particularly among younger generations...

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What's Great About Midwestern Cities

Anyone who follow me here knows I write quite a bit about Midwestern cities. They’re what I know best and love most. They’re chronically under-discussed in American urbanist discourse, where most of...

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How Harris Obstructed California Home Construction

Kamala Harris has a plan to help America’s struggling home buyers by increasing the supply of houses. Her recently released 82-page policy book, “A New Way Forward for the Middle Class,” calls for...

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The Middling Kingdom

In July, on the 35th anniversary of World Population Day, the United Nations released a new report that reduced the world’s peak population prediction by 100 million– from 10.4 billion to 10.3 billion...

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The New Revolutionary Class

No power on earth is more fearsome than a highly educated class that faces a constrained, even dismal, future. Such people have played a role in revolutionary upheavals in Europe, Russia, and Latin...

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Canadians Moving to Smaller Cities and Rural Areas

For the last two centuries, one of the most important demographic trends has been the movement of people from rural areas to the cities. It has been estimated that in 1800, the world was only 3% urban,...

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Latino Voters Are Abandoning Kamala Harris and the Democrats

Support for the Democrats among black voters shows signs of some erosion, but it’s Latinos – now the country’s largest racial minority – who may prove the critical decider of the 2024 election. Latinos...

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Americas Future Lies in the South

Every morning, just as the sun rises, Charleston Harbor hosts a scene of stirring patriotism. There, in the courtyard of Fort Sumter, tourists raise a huge American flag, helped along by a National...

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How Wokeness Could Cost the Democrats the Election

This time around, Hillary Clinton is not lamenting Republican ‘deplorables’. She has chosen instead, along with Kamala Harris, to label Donald Trump and his supporters as out-and-out fascists....

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10 Can't-Miss Election Predictions

I have been interested in presidential politics and campaigns all my life. I cannot remember an uglier contest, or one with worse candidates, than the one that will be decided on Tuesday. As I...

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The Bug Out Mindset

There have been a lot of articles in recent years about billionaires building bunkers in remote locations like New Zealand.This is just one example of a general trend of people who are adopting a sort...

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The Crumbling of the Democratic Empire

Ever since the rise of Barack Obama, Democrats have seen themselves as destined to rule. With his presidential victory in 2008, they created a seemingly unbridgeable political empire. With the support...

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