Kotkin on Medved Show: How Geography Affects U.S. Politics

By: Michael Medved

On: The Michael MedHead Show

Joel Kotkin, Professor of Urban Studies at Chapman University joins the program to discuss how geography is affecting U.S. elections and what we should expect in the future, based on demographic changes.

“With red states gaining population and blue states losing population, it looks like the geography of changing demographics will benefit the Republicans…”

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Kotkin on Arquette Show: Tale of Two Americas

By: Rod Arquette

On: The Daily Rundown (iheart radio)

Joel Kotkin, Professor of Urban Studies at Chapman University joins the program to discuss his recent piece for Spiked on the factions into which America has been split.

“What we’re seeing is there are two different — broadly speaking — Americas, with geography playing an increasingly important role in politics…”

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Dark Money: Secret Donors Pump Billions into US Election Ads

By: Ashleigh Banfield, Liz Jassin
On: NewsNation

More than $1.6 billion have been spent on Senate race TV advertisements, and most of that money is coming from “dark money” sources, according to TV ad spending.

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The Future of Cities

With: Ryan Streeter
On: American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

On October 18, AEI’s Ryan Streeter discussed the changing global urban demographics with a panel of contributors to the forthcoming volume The Future of Cities (AEI, 2023). The panel began by addressing the need for a new perspective on cities, particularly after cities recover from the pandemic.

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A New ‘Devil’ of a Problem for Planet Earth: Vanishing Humans

By: Glenn H. Reynolds
In: New York Post

When I was a kid, everyone was worried about the “population explosion.” Paul Ehrlich’s book, “The Population Bomb,” was a runaway bestseller.

This led to a lot of dystopian science fiction, like Harry Harrison’s novel, “Make Room, Make Room,” which became the famous movie “Soylent Green.” It also led to a lot of policy changes, from China’s disastrous one-child policy to many policies in industrialized nations aimed at people having fewer children later in life.

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Leighton Smith Podcast: Joel Kotkin on What is Brewing in Silicon Valley

On: Leighton Smith Podcast
By: Host, Leighton Smith

Joel Kotkin, described according to The New York Times, is America’s uber-geographer. Kotkin is an internationally recognised authority on global, economic, political and social trends.

We talk to him about what is now brewing in Silicon Valley, proposed in Toronto and implemented in China, that could be the role model for our future urban civilization.

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After an introduction, Joel’s interview starts at about 7:57

Google’s Most Ambitious Project to Date: Reshaping Your Thinking

By: News
On: Mind Matters

In a column yesterday at Spiked, urban studies specialist Joel Kotkin, author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class (2020), provided depressing evidence that the power of Big Tech is beginning to genuinely resemble the power medieval lords had over their serfs. It’s not just an office joke any more.

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Are Big Cities Past Their Prime?

By: Tim Hains
On: Real Clear Politics

New York. Los Angeles. Boston. San Francisco. Call them America’s “superstars.” With mega populations, these urban hubs have long reigned as the nation’s economic, social, and cultural capitals. But big cities have also been the hardest hit by the pandemic. Read more

California’s Energy War on the Poor

By: Robert Bryce
At: Quillette

A few years ago, author and demographer Joel Kotkin declared that “California is a great state in which to be rich.”

Of course, it’s good to be rich anywhere. But California—the province that for decades has led the United States in cultural issues like fashion, gay rights, and entertainment—has devolved into a state where the American dream is being strangled by a phalanx of energy and climate regulations that are imposing huge regressive taxes on the poor and middle class. And worse yet, the state’s vast bureaucracy is imposing yet more regulations that will further tighten the financial noose on Californians.

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