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Cities Are for Rich People Now and Wooing Amazon Only Makes It Worse
/in The Economy, Urban AffairsIf there are two facts of life in the modern American city, they are that rent will be too damn high, and that attracting investment from a mega corporation will seem to some local power players like the best way to stave off economic disaster.
The New McCarthyism of Our Censorious Age
/in PoliticsWe live in a newly censorious age, where old crudities are never forgotten. To be sure, there are some clear malefactors who should be punished to the extent of the law, but there’s clearly a distinct danger to free expression as the emboldened thought police steadily expand their domain.
Self-Styled Futurist Looks at California Governor’s Mansion
/in California, PoliticsWhen he takes office this January, as seems inevitable, Gavin Newsom, a self-styled futurist, will inherit an economic legacy that could be turning sour.
Jonathan Gold’s Los Angeles
/in Californiaby Joel Kotkin, Mandy Shamis — The passing this week of Jonathan Gold, Los Angeles’s Pulitzer Prize-winning restaurant critic, reminded us of why we have lived in Southern California for more than four decades.
The Hollowing-Out of the California Dream
/in California, PoliticsProgressives praise California as the harbinger of the political future, the home of a new, enlightened, multicultural America. Yet in terms of opportunity, California is evolving into something more like apartheid South Africa or the pre-civil rights South…
Democrats are Helping Trump to Win Re-election
/in PoliticsDonald Trump and the Republican Party, increasingly his subsidiary, should be headed to a reckoning of historic proportions. But, despite his own often unforced errors, Trump may have found an unwitting ally
The West Is In the Midst of a Migration and Identity Crisis
/in Demographics, PoliticsAs the economy has improved, popular concern, both here and abroad, has shifted to issues of migration and identity.
Progressive California’s Growing Race Challenge
/in California, Politicsby Joel Kotkin — California’s climate change concerns have been something of a disaster for the very minorities that state progressives so fervently claim to serve.
Can Lebron James Make Los Angeles Great Again?
/in California, Urban Affairsby Joel Kotkin — With his decision to move to Los Angeles, LeBron James has given our metropolis another reason to feel good about itself.
California’s Climate Extremism
/in CaliforniaEnvironmental extremism increasingly dominates California. The state is making a concerted attack on energy companies in the courts…