Articles - Joel Kotkin

Our green initiatives need to be balanced with economics.

Western Nations Cripple Their Economies With Green Initiatives While China and Others Laugh

October 16, 2024/in Politics, The Economy

Western nations seem more concerned with green initiatives than actually finding a workable approach to carbon emissions that does not undermine our economies and ability to defend ourselves.

Harris is moving to the center: is she hiding her real plan for America?

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Kamala Harris is Hiding the Truth about Her Real Plan for America

October 12, 2024/in Urban Affairs

In baseball as well as in American football, there’s something called the “hidden ball” trick, where a player hides the round object in order to befuddle the opposition.

The illuminated dome of the Residencia at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile with the magical arc of the Milky Way spaning the sky above.

Religious Science

October 10, 2024/in Religion

Suzie Bohlson sits in a sun-drenched California plaza, a pale, slight 53-year-old with a Ph.D. in biology from Notre Dame. Fifteen years ago, she converted to Catholicism, a surprising choice, […]

As the West seemingly turns its back on Jews, most are convinced of the importance of Israel

The West Has Turned Its Back on Jews

October 8, 2024/in Demographics

With rising anti-Semitism in the West, most Jews are even more convinced of the importance of the Jewish State and the need for greater solidarity.

Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris share a laugh.

Kamalafornia Über Alles

October 4, 2024/in Urban Affairs

Kamalafornia relies on support from elite Golden State lawyers, tech oligarchs, progressive inheritors, Hollywood, and public-employee unions, rather than middle class citizens.

Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks at a reception for Black business leaders

Don’t Buy Kamala Harris’s Blue Collar Rhetoric

October 1, 2024/in Politics

Vice President Harris’s new enthusiasm for industrial growth belies her own record, one in which blue collar economies have been sacrificed to fulfill the climate agenda of Harris’s base in the progressive coastal locales.

Immigration has both positive and negative effects

Immigration Has Benefits and Drawbacks

September 28, 2024/in Demographics, Politics

Overall, immigration has both benefits and drawbacks, something rarely acknowledged by advocates on either side. An intelligent approach would try to minimize the negatives.