Joel Kotkin

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  • Dec 13, 2024
    The Western world has many enemies – China, Russia, Iran, North Korea – but none is more potentially lethal than its own education system. From the very institutions...
  • Nov 18, 2024
    Western publics are rejecting the self-destructive and immiserating policies of Net Zero.
  • Oct 18, 2024
    Great empires always fall, pushed by their own leaders. Just think of the role played in Britain’s decline by the Liberals who blundered into the First World War, permanently...
  • Aug 15, 2024
    Democrats are steering the US towards European-style censorship, technocratic rule and economic decline.
  • May 14, 2024
    Jews, like elephants, tend to have long memories. We see in the past warnings of the future. As Israel marks its 76th birthday on 14 May, perhaps the most relevant and terrifying...
  • Jan 20, 2024
    Once widely considered the gathering of the elite of a future world government, the World Economic Forum is leaving a legacy of increasing irrelevance. To be sure, the snow...
  • Jan 16, 2024
    Media coverage of world events focuses on one crisis at a time, as if each was a separate phenomenon. But Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas war, the assaults on shipping in the Red Sea,...