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Joel Kotkin Interviewed About Trades & AI

May 15, 2026/in In the News

On: The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown

Joel Kotkin, Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University, joins Greg to discuss his piece for Unherd about how young Americans training in trades don’t fear AI, and their futures, unlike those working in information technology. Read more

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Kotkin Talks Economics of War with Iran on Real Clear Politics Panel

April 7, 2026/in In the News

By: David DesRosiers
On: RealClear Politics

“…though strategically, taking on Iran is a necessity, you don’t get people on board by insulting them so that’s added to the difficulty of getting our European allies on side”

Dan McCarthy, Brian Lee Crowley, Ellis Henican, and Joel Kotkin join David DesRosiers to discuss how the economic fallout of the war with Iran, the Supreme Court arguments over birthright citizenship, and Vice President JD Vance being appointed as a “fraud czar,” on “Get Real” on Real America’s Voice.
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Kotkin Interview on Border Issues with Real Clear Politics

February 12, 2026/in In the News

By: David DesRosiers
On: RealClear Politics

“Controlling the border is a political win, but Trump removing respectable families is a disaster”

RealClear Media Group Publisher David DesRosiers, on this week’s episode of “Get Real,” a new show on Real America’s Voice (RAV), interviewed “The Coming of Neo-Feudalism” author Joel Kotkin about President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. Read more

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California’s Middle Class Under Siege

January 28, 2026/in In the News

By: Jon Slavet
On: State of Gold Podcast

California once embodied the apex of economic mobility.

Americans went West in droves to the Golden State to build careers, buy homes, raise families, and establish prosperous, middle-class lives. No other region on Earth combined opportunity, innovation, and quality of life at the same scale.

That California no longer exists.

This week on State of Gold, urban theorist and Chapman University professor Joel Kotkin, the author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class, explains how California’s middle class was dismantled — and what replaced it. Read more

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Joel Kotkin Guests at Unbridled, A Civitas Institute Series

December 15, 2025/in In the News

By: Peter Robinson
On: Unbridled Podcast

On episode 3 of Unbridled, Peter sits down with writer and demographer Joel Kotkin. Joel is one of the most incisive interpreters of America’s social and economic fabric. He is also politically close to unclassifiable – equal parts old-time liberal and contemporary conservative. Joel and Peter talk immigration, automation, affordability and unaffordability, the decline of California and the Coasts, and the rise of Texas and the Heartland.
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Joel Kotkin — Canada’s Crisis Explained on Leaders of the Frontier

November 26, 2025/in In the News

By: John David Leis
On: Leaders on the Frontier

Is Canada bringing in too many immigrants? Professor and urban affairs writer Joel Kotkin thinks so and says it’s happening faster than anyone in power is willing to admit. David Leis and Kotkin break down why young Canadians can’t afford homes, why the middle class is shrinking, and how Canada is drifting into a new form of “neo-feudalism” where a small elite thrives while everyone else falls behind.

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H1B, Epstein & Attacks on MTG & Massie: Has Trump Lost MAGA’s Support?

November 26, 2025/in In the News

By: Dr. Drew Pinsky
On: WSJ: Dr. Drew Show

H1B visas… Epstein flip-flopping… Truth Social attacks on allies Marjorie Taylor Green & Thomas Massie… it hasn’t been a great week for MAGA and President Trump.

As the President faces overwhelming backlash from his own followers – now at a breaking point after constant delays of his campaign promise to release the Epstein files – the administration is scrambling to reunite his base before midterms. Will the release of the Epstein files, now passed by the House and Senate, finally restore Trump’s reputation in the eyes of his most dedicated voters?

Mark Mitchell shares the latest polling data on Trump’s approval ratings. Joel Kotkin discusses the destruction of big cities by the people who run them, and Elaine Culotti explains the often self-destructive psychology of California voters. Emilie Hagen returns with live reporting from DC as the government grapples with the impending release of the Epstein case files.

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Joel Kotkin Joins WSJ to Talk About Democrats Comeback

November 6, 2025/in In the News

Joel Kotkin talks with Garry Baker about the Democratic comeback in Tuesday’s off-year elections, why large cities are moving further left, and why affordability is the largest issue to urban voters.

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Joel Kotkin Talks with Dad Saves America About AI and the Future

November 3, 2025/in In the News

By: John Papola
On: Dad Saves America Podcast

On a recent episode of Dad Saves America, senior research fellow Joel Kotkin joined John Papola to discuss the roots of America’s shrinking middle class. Kotkin explores how eroding families’ ability to buy homes, raise children, and build stable communities relates to the rapidly transforming technological environment. Read more

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Joel Kotkin & Wendell Cox on RCP Podcast

September 15, 2025/in In the News

By: Andrew Walworth, Carl Cannon
On: Real Clear Politics Podcast

RCP contributors Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox talk to Carl Cannon about their recent piece in RealClear Investigations, “Revival: Americans Heading Back to the Hinterlands,” looking at the demographic trend of more and more Americans moving to smaller cities and towns. (starts at minute 30) Read more

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