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"Houston is your post-racial, post-ethnic future of America," said demographer Joel Kotkin. "It's a leading-edge place."

Joel on POLITICO

Barack Obama may be our first African-American president, but he’s first got to stop finding his muse in Scandinavia. With his speech for the Nobel, perhaps he’s showing some sign of losing his northern obsession.

Joel on Politico

Joel on Instapundit

"Migration overall is going to slow just for the simple reason that the population is getting older," says Joel Kotkin, a fellow at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., and author of the upcoming The Next 100 Million: America in 2050. "People will be moving less for lots of reasons."

Joel on USA Today

An alarming graph that every California politician should see was part of a recent North Bay talk by Forbes economics columnist Joel Kotkin. It showed California unemployment rising to 14.4 percent in the first quarter of 2010 and remaining above 12 percent into 2011.

Joel on The North Bay Business Journal

Morley Winograd and Michael Hais, co-authors of the insightful Millennial Makeover, also want government to do more for young people. Writing on the newgeography.com Web site, they endorse proposals for creating internships, loan forgiveness programs, and "mission critical" jobs in such fields as health care, cyber-security and the environment. Plus, "increased entrepreneurial resources [should] be made available to youth."  read more »

Newsweek ran an article in October by Joel Kotkin suggesting that nothing will be as surprising about the 21st century America as its settledness. For more than a generation Americans have believed that “spatial mobility” would increase and, as it did, feed an inexorable trend toward rootlessness and anomie

Joel on PressPubs

​At least according to Joel Kotkin, an expert in urban futures. As Kotkin notes, "smart" is now synonymous with "green." And while our neighbors to the south are consistently on the top of any list of the greenest cities in the country, Kotkin says that's a narrow way of defining "smart." Why? Because commuting to work by bike only does so much when you've got fewer jobs to commute to.

Joel on Seattle Weekly

So who benefits from this collective ritual seppaku? Hegemony-seeking communist capitalists in China might fancy seeing America and the West decline to the point that they can no longer compete or fund their militaries. A weakened European Union or U.S. also won't be able provide a model of a more democratic version of capitalism to counter China’s ultra-authoritarian version.

Joel on Cyberhillbilly