Joel Kotkin
Freelance Journalist at Freelance
Co - Host at Feudal Future
Author: The Coming of Neo-Feudalism. Urban Futures Fellow @ChapmanU. Executive Director @Urbanreforminst.
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1 week ago |
newgeography.com | Joel Kotkin |Marshall Toplansky
by Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky 04/17/2025 America stands at a political crossroads where old alliances are shifting and economic realities are reshaping party loyalties. The Democratic Party faces a profound identity crisis - pragmatic at the local level where mayors tackle real problems head-on, yet seemingly detached at the national level where ideology often trumps practicality.
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newgeography.com | Joel Kotkin
As with many political movements, MAGA represents a fragile coalition of groups that often have little in common — and, at the extremes, may even detest one another. This tension has been brought into clearer focus by Trump’s recent exemption of tech products from tariffs, a decision likely influenced by the oligarchs in the President’s corner.
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newgeography.com | Joel Kotkin
Hating the Southwest, particularly its burgeoning cities such as Phoenix, is de rigueur in American media. Jon Stewart has called Arizona “the meth lab of democracy.” Hunter S. Thompson described hell as an “overcrowded version of Phoenix.” Fran Lebowitz, the epitome of New York progressive arrogance, said: “I don’t think anyone needs Arizona. . . . Putin: here take Arizona, leave Ukraine.”It’s a tendency that Kyle Paoletta rightfully finds annoying.
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climatedepot.com | Marc Morano |Joel Kotkin
By Joel KotkinExcerpt: Like the Marxist dialectic, or the predictions of the Gospels, the green movement has long seen its triumph as preordained. Yet sometimes the inevitable turns out to be not so. Over the past few years green policies — notably the drive for “net zero” — have been failing. Both markets and politicians have seen the light.
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newgeography.com | Joel Kotkin
It’s easy to dismiss Donald Trump’s haphazard tariff barrage as silly and self-defeating, especially after so many days of global market turmoil. But critics among liberal Democrats and Republican free traders still need to address the overriding goal behind the seeming madness. The key strategic objective of Trump’s approach is simple: restoring American industrial power. Opponents of the US president ignore this at their peril.
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