Can GOP Fatten Up Around the Middle?

Appearing in: The Orange County Register At a recent breakfast in Washington, D.C., a rising young Republican senator explained the divisions in his party in a particularly succinct manner: a […]

Paris and the Politics of Climate

Appearing in: Orange County Register To some, particularly in the green movement, this month’s Paris climate change summit represents something like the great synods of the early Christian era, where […]

Fostering a Climate of Intolerance

Appearing in: Orange County Register The Paris Climate Conference, convening this week, takes place in the very place where, arguably, the most dangerous exemplar of hysteria, the Islamic jihadi movement, […]

Jerry Brown

Jerry Brown’s Insufferable Green Piety

Appearing in: The Daily Beast At the site of real and immediate tragedy, an old man comes, wielding not a sword to protect civilization from ghastly present threats but to […]

Tech Titans Want to be Masters of All Media We Survey

Appearing in: The Orange County Register The rising tech oligarchy, having disrupted everything from hotels and taxis to banking, music and travel, is also taking over the content side of […]

Houston skyline

The Cities Where Your Salary Will Stretch The Furthest 2015

Appearing in: Forbes Average pay varies widely among U.S. cities, but those chasing work opportunities would do well to keep an eye on costs as well. Salaries may be higher on […]

Class Conflict: by Joel Kotkin

Are We Heading for An Economic Civil War?

Appearing in: The Daily Beast When we speak about the ever-expanding chasm that defines modern American politics, we usually focus on cultural issues such as gay marriage, race, or religion. […]

China census by age, 2010

End Of One-Child Policy Is Unlikely To Solve China’s Looming Aging Crisis

Appearing in: Forbes By finally backing away from its one-child policy, China would seem to be opening the gates again to demographic expansion. But it may prove an opening that […]

City Hall

How Big Government and Big Business Stick It to Small U.S. Businesses

Appearing in: The Daily Beast From the inception of the Soviet Union, transformation was built, quite consciously, on eliminating those forces that could impede radical change. In many ways, the […]

Ectopian Dystopia

Environmental Activists Turn up the Rhetorical Heat

Appearing in: Orange County Register What is the endgame of the contemporary green movement? It’s a critical question since environmentalism arguably has become the leading ideological influence in both California […]