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The Future of Cities: Africa’s Urban Future
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsThe urban future in the coming decades will be largely an African one. Now home to 12 of the world’s largest cities and four megacities; Africa has the world’s fastest-growing urban population.
The Fall of the Jewish Gangster
/in Demographics, Politics, Urban AffairsTo reflexive antisemites, Bankman-Fried epitomizes the “fall of the Jewish gangster” but this misses the changes he represents, more a malicious cleverness of the new tech oligarchy rather than one of old tribal traditions.
The Future of Cities: The Future of Chinese Cities
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsChina represents the cutting edge of 21st century urbanism. The successes and failures of Chinese cities will shape global perceptions of city life, not only in that country but around the world.
Mysteries of the Labor Force
/in The EconomyOne of the enduring mysteries of contemporary society centers on the seeming disassociation of so much of the labor force from the economy.
The Rural Revolution a Welcome Counter to the Liberal Green Agenda
/in Politics, Rural PolicyEnergy and agricultural policies that follow the globalist green script may appeal to denizens of Toronto’s towers and swankier neighborhoods, but can be regarded with horror by farmers in rural Manitoba or oil-riggers in Alberta.
California Jobs: A Multi-Dimensional Problem
/in California, ReportsThis newly released report by Joel Kotkin, Marshall Toplansky, Heather Gonzales, and Ken Murphy examines how California can recreate the middle-class jobs it used to have, and grow overall prosperity for its citizens.
The Retreat from Globalism
/in Politics, The EconomyToday’s turn against globalism need not herald a return to the dark days of aggressive nationalism. Instead, we are seeing the rise of a new community-based and self-governing model of localism.
How America’s ‘Big Sort’ Will Upend Politics
/in Demographics, PoliticsThe world may not be turning upside down, but it’s certainly tilting. In the long shadow of the pandemic, with war on the European continent and the West and China […]
Views from The Left Coast: The Future of Cities
/in California, DemographicsThe Western US has long been an innovator in developing the urban form, notably in the creation of suburbanized, multipolar cities. Yet now that model is showing strain, and there’s a fierce debate about how western cities should grow.
The Philanthropy Threat
/in Urban AffairsIncreasingly, philanthropy is shifting away from hospitals and libraries toward a progressive agenda that seeks, ultimately, to transform lives through the expansion of state power.