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Geographies of Inequality
Joel Kotkin’s new report, “Geographies of Inequality,” is the latest in a series of ahead-of-the-curve, groundbreaking pieces published through Third Way’s NEXT initiative. NEXT is made up of in-depth,...
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Trump’s Pitch to Blacks
After Trump made a reacent speech in Milwaukee in which he directly asked for black votes, I was asked to write a about it. My piece is now online in City Journal and is called “Trump’s Pitch to...
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The Perils of Public Capital
Most discussions of our slow economic growth includes a seemingly compulsory demand for increased public capital spending, so-called infrastructure spending or simply “roads and bridges.” Both Donald...
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Culture, Circumstance, and Agency: Reflections on Hillbilly Elegy
The intractability of poverty has been recognized since at least the time the Deuteronomist wrote, “The poor will never cease to be in the land.” Explanations vary: ill favor of the gods, deficient...
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How the Middle Class Lost the Election
Middle-class rage has dominated this election, but ultimately 2016 seems destined to produce not a populist victory but the triumph of oligarchy. Blame goes to a large section of the middle and working...
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Asia Dominates Largest World Seaports
The Port of Shanghai is by far the largest seaport in the world, according to the authoritative 2014 figures published by the American Association of Port Authorities. AAPA is an "alliance of the ports...
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The New Culture War Dividing America
he stirring speech made by the openly gay tech billionaire Peter Thiel at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland marked a critical change in the nature of the Culture Wars in the US. Rather...
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Jerry Brown’s Housing Hypocrisy
Jerry Brown worrying about the California housing crisis is akin to the French policeman played by Claude Rains in “Casablanca” being “shocked, shocked” about gambling at the bar where he himself...
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The Future of Mobility
I was walking home from downtown San Francisco and passed through the South of Market neighborhood. The area is full of tech company offices like Twitter, Uber, and Airbnb. I saw this minivan...
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Are Baby Boomers Turning Out to be the Worst Generation?
I have seen the best minds of my generation, to steal a phrase from the late Allen Ginsberg, driven to heights of self-absorption, advocating policies that assure the failure of the next. Nothing so...
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Why Evangelicals Matter to the Labor Movement
Conventional wisdom tells us that all evangelicals must be anti-union because they are theologically and politically conservative. Therefore, you might assume, labor has nothing to gain from the sixty...
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The Bridge from Laissez-Faire to Socialism
Cronyism remains unchecked in the world’s largest economy.We might object to the phrase crony capitalism for two reasons:First, because cronyism is in some ways the antithesis of capitalism. The...
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The States Gaining And Losing The Most Migrants -- And Money
When comparing the health of state economies, we usually look at employment and incomes. Another critical indicator worth closer attention is where Americans choose to move, and the places they are...
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Is it Time for MagLev?
Maryland officials have announced that a proposal to build a maglev line from Washington to Baltimore has received a commitment for the feasibility study of $2 million from Japanese government. This is...
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What the Blues Brothers and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Tell Us About...
The Blues Brothers and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off are two of the seminal films set in Chicago. Indeed, Chicago itself is a character in both films.The films are radically different even though released...
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The Evolving American Central Business District
After decades of serious economic decline, the inner cores in many of America’s largest metropolitan areas have experienced much improvement in recent years. This is indicated by the “City Sector...
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Our Town: Restoring Localism
This is an introduction to a new report from the Center for Opportunity Urbanism, "Our Town: Restoring Localism". Download the full report here.America is facing a critical moment in its evolution, one...
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Cities Need Connectivity in the Global Economy
My latest column is now online in the September issue of Governing magazine. It’s about the criticality of connectivity to success in the global economy.One of the most important ways for cities to get...
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California's Boom Is Poised To Go Bust -- And Liberals' Dream Of Scandinavia...
As its economy started to recover in 2010, progressives began to hail California as a kind of Scandinavia on the Pacific — a place where liberal programs also produce prosperity. The state’s recovery...
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Are-You-Better-Off: 2016 Update
The 2016 US Presidential campaign has gotten so crazy that the term “silly season” just doesn’t do it justice. In a September 2012 article on ng, I asked the question “Are you better off today than you...
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