Kotkin Joins The Spectator to Discuss Who is Winning America’s Class War

By: Freddy Gray

On: Americano

This week Freddy is joined in The Spectator offices by regular contributor and fellow of urban studies at Chapman University, Joel Kotkin. They discuss Biden and Trump’s respective attempts to burnish their credentials with the unions this week, how the cultural agenda is alienating voters, and whether technology could prevent the coming of neo-feudalism. Read more

We Cannot Allow the Best to Overwhelm the Good

By: Gerard C.S. Mildner and Trey Barrineau

On: Development Magazine, Fall 2023

Author and demographer Joel Kotkin is a big fan of the suburbs, a stance that often puts him at odds with urban planners and environmentalists. Read more

Kotkin Joins Gormley Show to Talk About EV Mandates

By: John Gormley

On: The Gormley Show

We see the shift to make more electric vehicles, and many of them piling up, waiting to be sold. We are seeing this shift impact the middle class, especially when it comes to the cost of buying an EV being well over $60,000. Joel Kotkin, Executive Director of the Urban Reform Institute and Urban Futures Fellow at Chapman University, recently wrote about how EV mandates attack the middle class. He joins Gormley to explain how harmful the move to EVs is on the middle class. Read more

Kotkin Talks About the Death of Silicon Valley on The Bunker Podcast

By: Dr. Kate Devlin

On: The Bunker

Are we witnessing the death of Silicon Valley as big tech shifts from physical products to services? And has the time of California being the promised land for budding tech bros gone? Dr. Kate Devlin is joined in The Bunker by Joel Kotkin, fellow in urban studies at Chapman University, to find out. Read more

Kotkin Discusses EVs and the Working Class with Kokott on QR Calgary Radio

By: Angela Kokott

On: Afternoons with Rob Breakenridge, on QR Calgary Radio

Angela Kokott talks with Joel Kotkin — the author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class. On this episode of the podcast, they discuss how electric vehicle mandates and the overall push for EVs represents an assault on the working class. Read more

Kotkin Discusses Urban Sprawl with The Joel Oakley Show

By: John Oakley

On: The Joel Oakley Show

John Oakley talks with Joel Kotkin, who is the author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class. On this episode of the podcast, they discuss Kotkin’s recent piece on urban sprawl as an answer to the problem of expensive housing. Read more

Kotkin Discusses End of Silicon Valley with The Spectator

By: Freddy Gray

On: The Spectator

Freddy Gray speaks to Joel Kotkin who is the author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class. On the podcast, they discuss the collapse of Silicon Valley. With mass layoffs in the tech sector and a post-pandemic real estate downturn, Kotkin argues the Valley is entering a period of long-term decline – but can it come back from this?

Produced by Natasha Feroze.

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Kotkin on Limits to Libertarianism with Amanda Vanstone

By: Amanda Vanstone

On: CounterPoint

Are there any limits to libertarianism? Joel Kotkin, author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class, argues that there is and it is most obvious in housing and the market economy. Does it matter?

Listen to this interview at CounterPoint

Kotkin on Michael Medved Show: De-population

By: Michael Medved

On: The Michael MedHead Show

Joel Kotkin, Professor of Urban Studies at Chapman University joins the show to discuss his recent piece on the Depopulation Bomb — the threats posed by demographic decline.

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Joel Kotkin On Cities, With Carie Penabad

By: Carie Penabad

On: ON CITIES

In this episode of ON CITIES, Joel Kotkin provides a wide-ranging survey on the evolution of urban life, addressing the timeless question of what makes a great city? Read more