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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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Podcast Episode 9: How COVID is Shaping the Office of the Future
/in Podcast, The Economy, Urban AffairsIn this episode of the Feudal Future podcast, Jim Young & Kirstie Acevedo of Gensler join hosts Joel and Marshall to talk about the workspace experiment, and how COVID is shaping the office of the future.
Three Things Trump is Getting Right and Democrats Ignored
/in Urban AffairsGiven the weak economy, the ham-handed response to COVID-19 and the miserable persona that is Donald Trump, four years later this election should be in the Democrats’ bag. But there are three big things that Trump is getting right, and Democrats are mostly just ignoring, that explain why the smart money in Vegas sees Trump’s odds of winning going up.
Blackouts and Fires: California’s Summer Attractions
/in California, PoliticsIn spring the swallows famously return to Capistrano, California, but in recent years they are followed by summer power outages and fires. This is not as pleasant an experience for Californians as the return of our favored feathered companions.
Kamala’s America?
/in Urban AffairsBy virtue of being chosen Joe Biden’s running mate, Senator Kamala Harris of California has reasonable odds of becoming president someday. That’s cause for concern, not because she represents the far Left, but because she will promote the spread of California’s increasingly feudal political and economic order, which undermines the upward mobility that long defined the California experience.
Podcast Episode 8: Making Sense of Urban Density, Death Rates & Dispersion with Wendell Cox
/in Demographics, Podcast, Urban AffairsIn this episode of the Feudal Future podcast, urban policy expert and noted demographer Wendell Cox joins hosts Joel and Marshall for a conversation on the COVID-19 pandemic, death rates, and public policy.
The Heartland’s Revival
/in Demographics, The EconomyFor roughly the past half century, the heartland of America has been widely written off as reactionary, backward, and destined for unceasing decline.
The Twilight of Great American Cities is Here. Can We Stop It?
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsThe dreadful death of George Floyd lit a fire that threatens to burn down America’s cities. Already losing population before the pandemic, our major urban centers have provided ideal kindling for conflagration with massive unemployment, closed businesses and already rising crime rates.
How Race Politics Burns Out
/in Politics, Urban AffairsRacial identity politics has become the rage in the media, entertainment, and political worlds. Will this approach help minorities transcend discrimination and achieve a durable success in a diverse society?
Chinese Science Fiction’s Disaster Dystopias
/in Politics, Urban AffairsIn Ma Jian’s novel China Dream, the protagonist, Ma Daode suggests, “The China dream is not the selfish, individualist dream chased by Western countries. It is a …dream of the entire nation…” This mindless worship of hierarchy and control permeates his thinking.
Podcast Episode 7: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All With Mike Shellenberger
/in California, Podcast, Urban AffairsOn the 7th Feudal Future episode, Mike Shellenberger joins hosts Marshall Toplansky & Joel Kotkin to talk about how environmentalism and housing policies are mismanaged and why environmental alarmism hurts us all.