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The Future of Racial Politics
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Real Clear Politics From its inception, the American experiment has been dogged by racial issues. Sadly, this was even truer this year. Eight years after electing the first […]
How the Left and Right Can Learn to Love Localism: The Constitutional Cure for Polarization
/in PoliticsAppearing in: The Daily Beast The ever worsening polarization of American politics—demonstrated and accentuated by the Trump victory—is now an undeniable fact of our daily life. Yet rather than allowing the […]
The Corbynization of the Democratic Party
/in PoliticsAppearing in: The Orange County Register The Democratic Party’s current festival of re-examination is both necessary and justified. They have just lost to the most unpopular presidential candidate in recent […]
It Wasn’t Rural ‘Hicks’ Who Elected Trump: The Suburbs Were — And Will Remai …
/in Demographics, PoliticsMuch of the NYC and DC press corps has concluded that Donald Trump’s surprising journey to the Oval Office was powered by country bumpkins expressing their inner racist misogyny. However, the real foundations for his victory lie not in the countryside and small towns, but in key suburban counties…
Can Working Class, Elite Form Alliance?
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Orange County Register Can the party of oligarchy also be the party of the people? Besides fending off the never-ending taint of corruption, which could weaken the extent […]
The Cities Where Your Salary Will Stretch The Furthest 2016
/in The Economy, Urban AffairsWhen Americans consider a move to another part of the country, they sometimes are forced to make a tough choice: should they go to a city with the best job opportunities, or a less economically vital area that offers a better standard of living, particularly more affordable…
Erasing Anglo Cultural Heritage Risks What Makes our Republic Diverse
/in DemographicsAppearing in: Orange County Register It’s increasingly unfashionable to celebrate those who made this republic and established its core values. On college campuses, the media and, increasingly, in corporate circles, […]
Can California Transition to Next Tech Wave?
/in California, The EconomyThe consumer technology boom, largely responsible for a resurgence in California’s economy after the tech wreck of 2001, seems to be coming to an end. The signs are widespread…
Trump Will Go Away, but the Anger He’s Stirred Up Is Just Getting Started
/in PoliticsAppearing in: The Daily Beast For progressives, the gloating is about to begin. The Washington Monthly proclaims that we are on the cusp of a “second progressive era,” where the technocratic […]
Today’s Orange County: Not Right Wing—and Kinda Hip
/in California, Politics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: The Daily Beast What comes to mind when you think about Orange County? Probably, images of lascivious housewives and blonde surfers. And certainly, at least if you know […]