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I’d Like to Believe California Can Be Saved from the LeftJune 8, 2026 - 11:45 am
The Strange Afterlife of FascismJune 5, 2026 - 11:40 am
Steve Hilton’s Rise Won’t Kill California ProgressivismJune 3, 2026 - 11:40 am
The Anti-AI Backlash is Building Against Tech Oligarchs Playing GodJune 1, 2026 - 11:40 am
California Takes the Prize for Environmental Virtue Signaling — But Not Much Else
/in CaliforniaIf there’s an award for environmental virtue signaling, California would win the prize. Yet for all the constant self-promotion, shameless grandstanding and endless moralizing, perhaps it’s time to reconsider the impact, and failures, of our current green obsessions.
Restoring Localism
/in PoliticsAmericans are increasingly prisoners of ideology, and our society is paying the price. We are divided along partisan lines to an extent that some are calling it a “soft civil war.” In the end, this benefits only ideological warriors and their funders.
The Triumph of Trumpism Will Outlast Trump
/in PoliticsDonald Trump’s presidency may prove, to quote Thomas Hobbes, to be “nasty, brutish and short.” But even if Trump ends up out of office sooner than planned, we will continue to live in a world shaped by him for years to come.
The Battle for Houston
/in The Economy, Urban AffairsHouston has embraced a light regulatory approach to housing that reflects market forces more than ideology. But last year’s Hurricane Harvey floods severely tested the Houston model.
‘Chinafornia’ and Global Trade in Age of Trump
/in California, Politics, The EconomyCalifornia’s trajectory long has been linked to its partners across the Pacific. Yet these ties could be deeply impacted by President Trump’s immigration and global trade policies.
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…