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Can California Win the New Space Race?
/in California, Politics, The EconomyCalifornia may have gotten its global allure from the Gold Rush and the movies, but it’s planes, missiles and now drones and spaceships that have underpinned the state’s industrial emergence.
Elites Against Western Civilization
/in Politics, Religion, Urban AffairsThe intellectual class across the West—encompassing its universities, media, and arts—is striving to dismantle the values that paced its ascendancy. Europe, the source of Western civilization, now faces a campaign, in academia and elite media, to replace its cultural and religious traditions with what one author describes as a “multicultural and post-racial republic” supportive of separate identities.
So Much for Localism
/in Politics, Urban AffairsIn the months that followed President Trump’s election, many thoughtful Democrats and progressives re-discovered the beauties of federalism. After all, with a brute in the White House, maybe the best thing to do was to devolve power to the local level, notably in urban centers where Trump is about as popular as the bubonic plague.
Property and Democracy in America
/in California, Demographics, Politics, The Economy, Urban AffairsTo understand how American democracy has worked, and why its future may be limited, it’s critical to look at the issue of property. From early on, the country’s republican institutions have rested on the notion of dispersed ownership of land — a striking departure from the realities of feudal Europe, east Asia or the Middle East.
Transit Planners Want to Make Your Life Worse
/in California, Politics, Urban AffairsIn our system of government, the public sector is supposed to serve the public. But increasingly, our state and local bureaucracies seek to tell the public how to live, even if the result is to make life worse.
The Real Conflict is Not Racial or Sexual, It’s Between the Ascendant Rich Elites and the Rest …
/in Demographics, Politics, The EconomyDespite the media’s obsession on gender, race and sexual orientation, the real and determining divide in America and other advanced countries lies in the growing conflict between the ascendant upper class and the vast, and increasingly embattled, middle and working classes.
Common Sense versus Climate Hysteria
/in Demographics, Politics, The EconomyThe reinforced specter of imminent destruction from climate change increasingly drives the demand for ever more extreme policy choices.
The Politics of Procreation
/in DemographicsThroughout most of history, starting a family was a task that most people either aspired to or dutifully performed. Today, that is increasingly not the case— a trend that will reshape our politics, economy, and society in the decades ahead.
The American Working Class Dilemma
/in Politics, The EconomyFor the past 125 years, Labor Day has been a time to celebrate the relevance, and political power, of the American working class.
Public Schools Should Be Places of Learning, Not Propaganda
/in California, Politicsby Joel Kotkin and Doug Havard — California likes to think of itself as the brain center of the universe, but increasingly much of that intellectual content comes from somewhere else. Once a leader in educational innovation and performance, California is now toward the bottom of the pack.