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Michigan Dems Big Foot the Locals

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When it comes to zoning and property rights in rural America, Big Wind and Big Solar can count on Democratic legislators to carry their water.  read more »

Property: The Myth That Built the World

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Joel Kotkin reviews the recently released book, Property: The Myth That Built the World, by Rowan Moore. The review is excerpted below:  read more »

The Gloomy Future Facing Trade Unions

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Few developments have more cheered progressive activists than the perceived resurgence of labor unions. This has been sparked by largely symbolic efforts to unionize in places such as Starbucks and Amazon  read more »

The Future of Cities

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“America’s treasured cities,” writes semi-libertarian Jeffrey Tucker, are in “grave danger.” He believes that people are leaving cities to get away from “forced closures and then vaccine mandates and compulsory segregation by vaccine status” due to the pandemic.  read more »

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Two Days After COP28, IEA Delivers More Coal Hard Reality

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Like The Dude in The Big Lebowski, coal abides.  read more »

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You Thought Joe Biden Was Bad? Look at his Democratic Rivals

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Joe Biden’s sinking poll numbers are inciting panic among Democratic Party insiders, not to mention the progressive tech oligarchs who bankrolled his 2020 campaign.  read more »

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Summary of World Urban Population by Nation and Region

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Defining "Built-Up Urban Area"

The term urban area refers to a continuously built landmass devoted to urban development. Unlike metropolitan areas, urban areas have no rural land within their boundaries.  read more »

Multi-culti Reckoning

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The explosion of support for Hamas’s assault on human decency could well turn out to be the high-water mark of the progressive Left. The authoritarian multicultural ideology generated on campuses and transmitted dutifully by the established media has reached its apex and may now begin to descend.  read more »

Why I Do Not Support Christian Nationalism

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I personally am not that interested in the Christian nationalism debate, but the Claremont Institute’s American Mind site asked me to write up my take on it for a symposium on the topic.  read more »

As Antisemitism Surges on the Left Jews are Pushed to the Right

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In the ever-shrinking world of the Jewish diaspora, Canada, along with Australia and the United States, hosts a most vital and comparatively healthy community.  read more »