Entries by Joel Kotkin

Geographies of Inequality

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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 […]

The Meaning of the Baby Bust

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Appearing in: Orange County Register With a stronger economy and a growing number of women of child-bearing age, Americans should be producing offspring at a healthy clip. But the most […]