Entries by Joel Kotkin

A ‘Diet’ to Give California Drivers Indigestion

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Appearing in: Orange County Register In the past, it was other people’s governments that would seek to make your life more difficult. But increasingly in California, the most effective war […]

Can Southland be a ‘New York by the Pacific’?

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Appearing in: The Orange County Register Throughout the recession and the decidedly uneven recovery, Southern California has tended to lag behind, particularly in comparison to the Bay Area and other […]

The Cost of NOT Housing: A New Report

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Appearing in: National CORE This is the introduction to an new report “The Cost of NOT Housing” authored by Joel Kotkin for the National CORE Symposium on Affordability of Housing. […]

Battle of the Imperial Pretenders

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Appearing in: Orange County Register It took the Roman Republic five centuries to devolve into a centralized despotism. It may take ours roughly 240 years to get to the same […]

How to Make Cities Livable Again

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Appearing in: The Daily Beast In his new book, The Human City, Joel Kotkin looks at the ways cities succeed or fail in terms of how their residents are best served. […]

Politics Move Left, Americans Move Right

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Appearing in: Real Clear Politics In an election year in which the top likely candidates come from New York, big cities arguably dominate American politics more than at any time […]

Confronting the Inevitability of Hillary

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Appearing in: Orange County Register With her massive win last month in New York, followed up with several other triumphal processions through the Northeast, Hillary Clinton has, for all intents […]