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?
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By: Michael Medved
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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By: Brendan O’Neill
On: Brendan O’Neill Show on spiked
Joel Kotkin – spiked columnist and author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Joel and Brendan discuss the implosion of Silicon Valley Bank, the emergence of the new tech oligarchy and how the virtue-signalling elites could be digging their own graves.
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By: Craig Melvin
On: Today Show
Joel Kotkin talks about reparations on The Today Show. California is undertaking the nation’s most ambitious effort so far to compensate for the economic legacy of racism and the legacy of one former slave, Daniel Blue, is at the center of the conversation.
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By: Michael E. Hartman
Earlier this month, author Joel Kotkin contributed to The Giving Review symposium of articles about “Conservatism and the Future of Tax-Incentivized Big Philanthropy.” In his contribution, “The nonprofit threat,” Kotkin examines the causes and effects of the rise of new money in America, the psychology of those who earned or have been given it, and what they and their philanthropy run the risk of doing to democracy, capitalism, and role of elites in society.
Among those with newly generated wealth mostly on the West coast, “what you’ve got is, you’ve got a common culture of progressive, very often highly educated, politically motivated people, all of whom sign on to essentially the same agenda,” Kotkin told me, which is reflected in and implemented through their funding priorities.
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By: James Morrow
On: Sky News
Author Joel Kotkin says many people across the United States don’t want their lives “controlled” by big corporations and the government.
“Localism is an attempt to give us the chance for a third option, something that does not require that we genuflect to the woke capitalists or the woke bureaucrats,” he told Sky News host James Morrow.
“I think the key issue … is going to be can we create this third alternative.”
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By: Shaun Thompson
Joel Kotkin is interviewed on the Shaun Thompson Show. Professor Joel Kotkin tells Shaun we are stuck in a medieval mindset right now – and to get out of serfdom we must vote with our feet!
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By: Walter Russell Mead
The midterm elections disappointed Republicans, diminished Donald Trump, and left Democrats with a grateful sense that an electoral catastrophe was narrowly averted. Perhaps more important, the elections reminded the world that, for all its troubles, the U.S. remains a deeply stable society whose fundamental institutions continue to command the respect of its citizens. Read more
By: Michael Medved
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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