Entries by Joel Kotkin

The New Culture War Dividing America

Appearing in: Spiked Online

The 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 than boo him…

How the Middle Class Lost the Election

Appearing in: Real Clear Politics 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 […]

Geographies of Inequality

Appearing in: The Third Way 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 […]

Two Views of West’s Decline

Appearing in: The Orange County Register Summer is usually a time for light reading, and for the most part, I indulged the usual array of historical novels, science fiction as […]

What Happened to My Party?

Appearing in: The Orange County Register The nomination of Hillary Clinton has been secured, but the future of the Democratic Party is far from certain. Despite the patina of unity […]

The Future of Latino Politics

Appearing in: The Orange County Register The sad decline in race relations has focused, almost exclusively, on the age-old, and sadly growing, chasm between black and white. Yet this divide […]

Election 2016: Peak Transformation

Appearing in: The Orange County Register Barack Obama came to office with a promise of “fundamentally transforming the United States.” Through what one admirer calls “a profound course correction engineered […]