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The Fall of the Golden State
/in California, The EconomyIn the last decades of the 20th century, California reinvented a brash new capitalism that created new, more innovative archetypes. Today, some of those companies – Apple, Google and Facebook […]
Iranian Americans Want IRGC Regime Gone
/in Demographics, Politics, Urban AffairsA recent survey of Iranian Americans found that barely 3% favor the current regime, while an additional 8% would welcome a reformed Islamic Republic.
Goodbye, Information Age
/in The EconomyThe students in a graduate-level course I teach on the social impacts of artificial intelligence include a game designer, a warehouse manager, and an HR specialist. Many of them express […]
The Roots of Recession
/in Urban AffairsA review of Recession: The Real Reasons Economies Shrink and What to Do About It by Tyler Goodspeed, 320 pages, Basic Venture (March 2026). As we may be heading that […]
Canadians Must Stop Romanticizing a Failing Europe
/in Politics, The Economy, Urban AffairsU.S. President Donald Trump’s mindless, and frankly pointless, comments about Canada becoming the 51st state have stirred up latent Canadian patriotism. But it also may result in Canada, which is […]
Make the Gulf Irrelevant Again
/in Politics, The EconomyRather than seek to placate the potentates, crowned or turbaned, the West should instead focus on making the Gulf irrelevant again.
Iran War Exposes Weakness of California’s ‘Green’ Dependence on Foreign Oil
/in CaliforniaThe Iran war has exposed California’s dependence on foreign oil, and its economic vulnerability due to ‘green’ policies that rely on imported petroleum instead of using California crude.
California Governor’s Race Declares War on Big Tech
/in California, PoliticsThe fall of Eric Swalwell following accusations of sexual misconduct has turned the California governor’s race on its head. To pick up Swalwell’s scraps of support and funding, each contender […]
America Is the New Rome
/in PoliticsThe American empire is arrogant, brutal and yet completely indispensable to Western civilisation. In the legendary HBO series The Sopranos, a Hasidic Jew, being beaten for not paying up, refers […]
California’s Aging Population Will Cripple the State Economy
/in California, DemographicsThe migration of people, money, and companies out of California has evolved into a clear challenge to the economic future of the Golden State. Terrified by the loss of so […]