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The Last Patrician: Romney Falls From Favor as America Loses Faith in Old Money
/in PoliticsAppearing in: The Daily Beast Mitt Romney’s collapse in South Carolina reflects the larger, long-term decline of the American patrician class he represents. That decline was accelerated by the 2008 […]
This Is America’s Moment, If Washington Doesn’t Blow It
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com The vast majority of Americans believe the country is heading in the wrong direction, and, according to a 2011 Pew Survey, close to a majority feel that […]
In Keystone XL Rejection, We See Two Americas At War With Each Other
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com America has two basic economies, and the division increasingly defines its politics. One, concentrated on the coasts and in college towns, focuses on the business of images, […]
Martin Luther King, Economic Equality And The 2012 Election
/in Demographics, PoliticsAppearing in: Forbes.com In the last years of his life Dr. Martin Luther King expanded his focus from political and civil rights to include economic justice. Noting that the majority […]
The New Authoritarianism
/in PoliticsAppearing in: The City Journal “I refuse to take ‘No’ for an answer,” said President Obama this week as he claimed new powers for himself in making recess appointments while […]
The Sun Belt’s Migration Comeback
/in California, DemographicsAlong with the oft-pronounced, desperately wished for death of the suburbs, no demographic narrative thrills the mainstream news media more than the decline of the Sun Belt, the country’s southern […]
Heavy Metal Is Back: The Best Cities For Industrial Manufacturing
/in The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com For a generation American manufacturing has been widely seen as a “declining sport.” Yet its demise has been largely overplayed. Despite the many jobs this sector has […]
Illinois: State Of Embarrassment
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com Most critics of Barack Obama’s desultory performance the past three years trace it to his supposedly leftist ideology, lack of experience and even his personality quirks. But […]
Wall Street Plays Occupy White House
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Politico Wall Street is disdained in the court of public opinion — detested by the tea party on the right and the Occupy movement on the left. The […]
Is Suburbia Doomed? Not So Fast.
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com This past weekend the New York Times devoted two big op-eds to the decline of the suburb. In one, new urban theorist Chris Leinberger said that Americans […]