Entries by Mandy Shamis

starting the year with a mess to clean up

By: E. Thomas McClanahan In: Kansas City Star Further out, the future seems brighter. As Joel Kotkin writes, this could be yet another American century.

Downtown Riverside A Stage; Its Future At Play

By: Kimberly Pierceall In: The Press-Enterprise Joel Kotkin, a Chapman University fellow focused on urban planning, said he doubts anyone wanting the urban experience of living downtown would flock to […]

Gov. Jon Corzine’s Greatest Public Service

By: Paul Mulshine In: The Star Ledger A couple of decades ago, Joel Kotkin said, services in Texas were noticeably inferior to services in the California. “Today, you go to […]

Intimitations of Decline

By: Ross Douthat In: NYTimes.com Kotkin focuses on America’s enduring economic strengths: Our demographic balance, our still-vast natural resources, our entrepreneurial culture, and so on.

The Limits of Politics

By: Bill Reeves In: Often Wrong, Never in Doubt Blog Kotkin is a very rare thing: a principled moderate.