Gov. Jerry Brown speaking on environmental policy

The True Legacy of Gov. Jerry Brown

The cracks in the 50-year-old Oroville Dam, and the massive spillage and massive evacuations that followed, shed light on the true legacy of Jerry Brown. The governor, most recently in Newsweek, has cast himself as both the Subcomandante Zero of the anti-Trump resistance and…

Neo-Stalinists Versus the Sons of Anarchy

In America today, it also seems increasingly impossible to separate personal life from the political. In awards shows, sports broadcasts and fashion runways — which once provided escapes from politics — we find endless protests…

Capitol Dome at dusk

Decentralize Government to Resolve Country’s Divisions

America is increasingly a nation haunted by fears of looming dictatorship. Whether under President Barack Obama’s “pen and phone” rule, or…Read more

Housing Construction

The High Cost of a Home Is Turning American Millennials Into the New Serfs

Appearing in: The Daily Beast American greatness was long premised on the common assumption was that each generation would do better than previous one. That is being undermined for the […]

Aging Population

Death Spiral Demographics: The Countries Shrinking the Fastest

Appearing in: Forbes For most of recent history, the world has worried about the curse of overpopulation. But in many countries, the problem may soon be too few people, and […]

Border Beach

The Immigration Dilemma

Appearing in: The Orange County Register In often needlessly harsh ways, President Donald Trump is forcing Americans to face issues that have been festering for decades, but effectively swept under […]

Kevin Starr

Kevin Starr, Chronicler of the California Dream

Appearing in: The Orange County Register
In a way now rare and almost archaic, Kevin Starr, who died last week at age 76, believed in the possibilities of California…

Political Protest

Loyal Opposition Versus Resistance to Trump

Appearing in: The Orange County Register
Perhaps nothing has made modern progressivism look sillier than the often hysterical reaction to the election of Donald Trump.

Los Angeles at Night

California as Alt-America

Appearing in: Real Clear Politics
In 1949 the historian Carey McWilliams defined California as the “the Great Exception” — a place so different from the rest of America as to seem almost a separate country.

Donald Trump

The Irony That Could Trip Up Trump’s Quest To Make The U.S. Economy ‘Great Again’

Appearing in: Forbes
Perhaps no president in recent history has more pressure on him to perform economic miracles than Donald Trump.