The New World Order: A Report on the World’s Emerging Spheres of Influence

Appearing in: Legatum Institute This is the introduction to a new report, "The New World Order" authored by Joel Kotkin in partnership with the Legatum Institute. Read the full report […]

Good Morning, Vietnam!

Appearing in: The American While many experts are pronouncing the demise of the American era and the rise of China, other East Asian nations complicate the picture. As America continues […]

Women Ascendent: Where Females Are Rising The Fastest

Appearing in: Forbes.com You can find the future of the world’s women not in Scandinavia or the U.S., but among the entrepreneurs who line the streets of Mumbai, Manila and […]

Political Footballs: L.A.’s Misguided Plans For A Downtown Stadium

Appearing in: Forbes.com Over the past decade Los Angeles has steadily declined. It currently has one of the the highest unemployment rates (roughly 12.5%) in the U.S, and there’s little […]

Overpopulation Isn’t The Problem: It’s Too Few Babies

Appearing in: Forbes.com The world’s population recently passed the 7 billion mark, and, of course, the news was greeted with hysteria and consternation in the media. “It’s not hard to […]

America’s Demographic Opportunity

Appearing in: Business Horizon Quarterly Among the world’s major advanced countries, the United States remains a demographic outlier, with a comparatively youthful and growing population. This provides an unusual opportunity […]

Dense Urban Thinking Down Under

Appearing in: Forbes.com Ku-ring-gai is a piece of suburban paradise in the inner rings of Sydney. A district of modest homes and quaint small-scale shopping districts, it sits near one […]

Obama’s Off-target Class War

Appearing in: Politico For many conservatives, the notion of class warfare that President Barack Obama now evokes is both un-American and noxious — a crass attempt to cash in on […]

Silicon Valley Can No Longer Save California — Or The U.S.

Appearing in: Forbes.com Even before Steve Jobs crashed the scene in late 1970s, California’s technology industry had already outpaced the entire world, creating the greatest collection of information companies anywhere. […]

Are We Headed For China’s Fat Years?

Appearing in: Forbes.com Chan Koonchung’s chilling science fiction novel The Fat Years — already an underground sensation in China — will be published in the U.S. January 2012. The book, […]