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North America - especially the United States and Canada may be best positioned to lead a changing world

North America Has An Opportunity to Lead the World

January 6, 2023/in Politics, The Economy

For generations, pundits the world over have insisted that the future will be forged elsewhere – yet the United States and Canada may be best positioned to lead the changing world, if our leaders can leverage our natural advantages.

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The Collapse of the Progressive Economy

January 5, 2023/in Politics

As the world wakes up to the reality that material goods underlying daily life matter a great deal, the tech fueled progressive economy is in collapse. The coming years will likely see the rise of the “sophisticated, technically capable blue-collar worker”.

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being prisoners of ideology leads to political dysfunction

Prisoners of Ideology

December 24, 2022/in Politics

Until we return to our tradition of a pragmatic approach to politics, America’s electorate – and its politicians – will remain prisoners of ideology.

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Reparations is a trap, unlikely to help those in poverty, or address climate change

The Reparations Trap

December 19, 2022/in Politics

As political progressives seek to remedy historical guilt, their focus on reparations is a potential trap unlikely to address poverty or climate change.

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New York City must change to survive

How New York City Can Survive

December 15, 2022/in Urban Affairs

New York City continues to struggle post-pandemic, as do many large cities. To survive, urban metros must change to become more livable for middle and working class families.

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Post-Charlottesville vigil in Washington, DC

Normalizing Jew-Hatred

December 12, 2022/in Demographics, Politics

The worst thing about the aftermath of Donald Trump’s repast last month with two open anti-Semites—Kanye West and Nick Fuentes—was not the predictable liberal outrage and conservative cowardice, but how the incident has been accepted as part of normal discourse.

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Immigration in Canada, a citizenship ceremony is shown.

To Embrace Immigration, Canada Must Reject Trudeau’s Racialized Policies

December 9, 2022/in Demographics, Politics

Along with immigration’s many benefits, Canada could see intensification of racialism and identity politics, the kind that is threatening to tear apart an already deeply divided United States.

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California reparations proposal ignores the state's history of racism against indigenous Americans, Mexicans and Asians.

The Absurdity of California’s Reparations Proposal

December 8, 2022/in California, Politics

California’s reparations proposal ignores its the reality of its racial history, primarily racism directed at indigenous Americans, Mexican and Asians.

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Welcome to the New Era of Environmental Colonialism

December 5, 2022/in Urban Affairs

by Hügo Krüger and Joel Kotkin — There’s a new kind of colonialism afoot in rich nations – environmental colonialism that was on full display at the UN’s latest climate summit, known as the COP27.

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Climate policy seems increasingly likely to provoke a new global class war between "virtuous elites" and the middle and working class

The New Global Class War

December 2, 2022/in Politics, The Economy

A new global class war looms, as assembled woke corporations, bureaucrats and obscenely financed nonprofits at COP 27 agree to offer ‘climate reparations’ to poorer nations, undoubtedly to be paid for by workers in developed countries.

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