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Feudal Future Podcast — The Future of Space Defense

Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 11:41:15 -0400

The landscape of American defense manufacturing has transformed dramatically since World War II—and not for the better. What happens when a nation with the world’s most advanced military technology can’t produce enough conventional artillery shells to supply Ukraine while maintaining its own reserves?

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Why New Land Development and General Aviation Engine Design Are Stagnant

Rick Harrison — Wed, 21 May 2025 12:44:42 -0400

This 3 minute presentation explains why both aircraft engine design and subdivision design remain stagnant.

Rick Harrison is President of Rick Harrison Site Design Studio and Neighborhood Innovations. Rick has been instrumental in advancing land planning techniques as well as technology for almost all professions tied to land development.

Feudal Future Podcast: Nurturing California Industries

Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 17:21:11 -0400

On this special Feudal Future episode, Joel Kotkin sits down with Marshall Toplansky & Sougata Poddar as they discuss Chapman University's brand new report on nurturing California industries.

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Feudal Future Podcast: The End of the Valley

Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:39:41 -0400

On this episode of Feudal Future, hosts Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky are joined by American entrepreneur, Rony Abovitz, and author Michael Malone to discuss the future of Silicon Valley.

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Metro Columbus Lands Massive Intel Plants

Wendell Cox — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 11:45:45 -0500

Governor Mike DeWine announced today (January 21, 2022) that Intel will build two semi-conductor plants in suburban Licking County, in the Columbus metropolitan area. The plants will be located in New Albany’s International Business Park, which already has Google, Amazon and Facebook as tenants. The plants are to be opened by 2025.

The Governor said that the plant will be the largest private sector investment in Ohio history. The $20 billion plant is projected to increase Ohio’s Gross Domestic product by $2.8 billion.

The plant is expected to employ 3,000 initially, at an average wage of $135,000, while secondarily generating 20,000 additional jobs statewide.

Representative Troy Balderson, who represents the plant location in the US Congress said “We are allowing ourselves to be held hostage by the imbalance of foreign chip production. It’s past time to bolster this production here at home.”

Already, the Columbus metropolitan area had catapulted to leadership as a domestic migration destination, adding 53,000 net domestic migrants between 2010 and 2020, the most of any Midwestern metropolitan area.

Wendell Cox is principal of Demographia, an international public policy firm located in the St. Louis metropolitan area. He is a founding senior fellow at the Urban Reform Institute, Houston, a Senior Fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Winnipeg and a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Demographics and Policy at Chapman University in Orange, California. He has served as a visiting professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris. His principal interests are economics, poverty alleviation, demographics, urban policy and transport. He is co-author of the annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey and author of Demographia World Urban Areas.

Mayor Tom Bradley appointed him to three terms on the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission (1977-1985) and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich appointed him to the Amtrak Reform Council, to complete the unexpired term of New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman (1999-2002). He is author of War on the Dream: How Anti-Sprawl Policy Threatens the Quality of Life and Toward More Prosperous Cities: A Framing Essay on Urban Areas, Transport, Planning and the Dimensions of Sustainability.