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Battlefield ‘Burbs
/in Demographics, Politics, The Economy, Urban AffairsAmerica’s political culture has been shaped by its rural and urban environments, each of which tends to be dominated by one party. Yet the political future of the country lies in the ‘burbs — the suburban and exurban rings that dominate every metropolitan region.
How Declining Fertility Rates May Deliver Us to Oblivion
/in Demographics, The EconomyRather than being doomed by a surfeit of humans we may be experiencing, certainly in the West and in East Asia, dangerously low fertility rates that threaten to slow world economic growth and innovation.
Why More Americans Should Leave Home and Move to Other States
/in California, Demographics, PoliticsAmerica has been lazily divided by pundits into red and blue states, as if there weren’t constant movement of people between them. Fortunately, reality is a lot more purple — and hopeful — as immigrants, people of color and millennials reshape parts of America by voting with their feet and moving.
Climate Policy: COVID on Steroids?
/in Politics, The Economyby Joel Kotkin — For most people around the world, the Covid-19 pandemic seems a great human tragedy. Yet some think it presents a grand opportunity to enact permanent lockdowns on economic growth, and population growth.
Feudal Future Podcast — Examining China’s Urban Growth, with Austin Williams
/in Podcast, ReligionIn this episode of the Feudal Future Podcast, hosts Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky talk with Austin Williams about the differences in urban growth between the West and China.
Economic Civil War
/in California, Demographics, Politics, Rural Policy, The Economy, Urban AffairsOur national divide is usually cast in terms of ideology, race, climate, and gender. But it might be more accurate to see our national conflict as regional and riven by economic function.
The New American Judaism
/in Religionby Joel Kotkin and Edward Heyman — How COVID, suburban migration, and technology are sweeping away Judaism’s legacy institutions and shaping a new form of American Jewish identity.
The Passing of a Party? The Future of the GOP
/in Podcast, ReligionIn this episode of the Feudal Future Podcast, hosts Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky talk with Charles Blain, Brian Calle, and Cullum Clark about the future of the GOP.
The Collapse of California
/in California, PoliticsWith one of the nation’s highest income inequality and its dependence on low-wage workers, the California model may be better seen as a cautionary tale than a roadmap to a better future in the digital age.
Environmentalism is the New War on the Working Class
/in The Economy, Urban AffairsEnvironmentalism and the “green agenda” has become a set of policies that directly harm working-class interests.