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We’re Telling the Wrong Story About Race in AmericaMay 24, 2022 - 7:07 am
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Our Neo-Feudal Future
/in Politics, The EconomyDespite a digital revolution that was supposed to empower individuals everywhere, and the construction of a vigorous anti-discrimination apparatus that putatively ensures equal rights and status—a rigid neo-feudal future has come into view.
Manchin and Sinema Hold the Key for Democrats: Respecting Regional Differences
/in PoliticsModerates Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona hold the key for Democrats passing their legislative agenda, if Democrats can respect regional differences.
Work or Welfare?
/in Demographics, The EconomyDoes the baffling shortage of workers presage a post-work society, in which only a select few work and many live on the “welfare” of a universal basic income, their jobs having been eliminated by automation?
The Great Nudge
/in Demographics, PoliticsContemporary thought control takes the form of a gentle nudge that gradually closes off one’s critical faculties and leads one to comply.
Own Nothing and Love It
/in Demographics, The Economyby Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox — Today, the class of small property owners is being undermined by tech and financial interests, and increasingly intrusive bureaucracies.
The Socialism America Needs
/in Politics, The EconomyClobbered by the pandemic, the capitalist dream is fading for too many: the socialism America needs is one that lifts its working-class people economically instead of one that promotes a social agenda.
The Reshoring Imperative
/in The Economyby Joel Kotkin and Michael Lind — The COVID-19 pandemic brought tragedy and disruption to America. But it has also provided another stark warning concerning the country’s disastrous over reliance on overseas production. However, reshoring America’s industrial base will require comprehensive national industrial policy.
We Need More Families
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsFamilies, and the lack of them, are emerging as one of the great political dividing lines in America, and much of the high-income world. The familial ideal was once embraced […]
America is Built on a Great Culture. Progressives Want to Abandon It
/in Demographics, PoliticsGreat nations rest on a great common culture. Progressives would do well to relearn that a common culture that binds us is not only good and necessary, but popular.
California Dreamin’
/in California, The Economy, Urban AffairsCalifornia progressives are dreamin’ while their policies are resulting in ever increasing inequality, homelessness, and urban crime. Joel Kotkin covers Michael Shellenberger’s timely new book, San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities.