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I’d Like to Believe California Can Be Saved from the LeftJune 8, 2026 - 11:45 am
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The Anti-AI Backlash is Building Against Tech Oligarchs Playing GodJune 1, 2026 - 11:40 am
Green Hypocrisy Hurts the Poorest
/in Politics, The Economyby Joel Kotkin and Hügo Krüger — The wounds of green hypocrisy are self-inflicted — a product of misguided policies meant to accelerate the transition to green energy.
The Zaibatsu-ization of America
/in The EconomyThe zaibatu-ization of America’s economy presents an enormous problem of governance. Our constitutional structure is based on the notion of many competing players.
A New Dawn for the Working Class?
/in Politics, The EconomyOnce working-class protests were often organised by leftists or even Communists, but many of today’s working-class radical movements take on a different, more populist and distinctly anti-statist character.
How Biden Can Defeat China
/in Politics, The EconomyHow can Biden defeat China? Supporting the industrial renaissance taking place in America’s heartland can address our ruinous dependence on China, while accelerating job growth.
Report: Restoring the California Dream
/in Urban Affairsby Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky — This newly released report examines how the California dream can be restored for California’s middle- and working-class families.
California’s Economy is Weaker Than it Looks
/in California, The EconomyCalifornia’s reliance on the economically elite 1% who account for half the state’s income tax — could prove troubling once the current stock market boom ends. Yet, that inconvenient truth hasn’t stopped the Governor from proposing a record-high budget for 2022-23.
Restoring the California Dream
/in California, The EconomyJoin us for a webinar on January 21, 2022 – hosted by Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky, to learn how we can restore the California Dream for middle and working class Californians.
California is a Bastion of Innovation Marred by Deep Inequality. Is That America’s Future?
/in California, The Economy, Urban AffairsEveryone seems to be California dreaming these days. Much of America, particularly its red parts, see California as a hopeless dystopia best understood as everything the nation should avoid.
Class War is Just Beginning
/in The EconomyThe pandemic revealed how much those of us in the laptop class depend on the efforts of low-paid service economy workers, potentially feeding a new era of class conflict, with the “Great Resignation” being just the beginning.
Welcome to the End of Democracy
/in PoliticsWe bemoan autocracies in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Russia and China but largely ignore more subtle authoritarian trends in the West. We may remain nominally democratic, but be ruled by a technocratic class empowered by greater powers of surveillance than those enjoyed by even the nosiest of dictatorships.