Clearing the Tabs November 30, 2023

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on December 15. Also, just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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November 17
Xi Jinping emerges as the winner from San Francisco
The Chinese premier has the West right where he wants it

November 19
At 160 The Gettysburg Address Meaning Endures

November 24
The West cannot accept Gazan refugees

Unconstrained mass migration from dangerous regions would be disastrous for America

November 26
The place that made the president who made modern America

November 27

Letting Go of Nostalgia Urbanism

Will Reducing Parking Save the Planet?

November 30

Why Can't We Have a Populism That Builds?

El Salvador's Nayib Bukele, a darling of the American right, markets himself very differently from American populists.

The West is turning away from COP28’s green agenda
The middle and working classes are tiring of draconian climate policies

Clearing the Tabs June 30, 2023

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on July  15. Also, just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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June 17
Fox Severed Ties With Tucker Carlson Because Fox Is the Star

The weather isn’t ‘climate change’

June 18

Laurence Jones raised $52 at his own lynching. Why don’t you know who he is?

California’s emissions regulatory death spiral

June 20
An Empowered IRS Implies the Funding of Force at the Expense of Choice

Solving the Global Housing Crisis
The worldwide lack of affordable housing can only be resolved politically.

June 21
The rise of the liberal apostate
They are far more compelling than the likes of DeSantis

To reduce costs, California also needs to build new suburbs

June 23
The Most Important Decision in Life

Let Them Eat Solar Panels
Ex-Im’s $900 million loan for a solar project in Angola is green colonialism

Fire Frenzy: Setting the Record Straight on the Canadian Fires

June 25
Finding grace and hope in W.Va. coal country, where others see only decay

Next Up For Suburban Urbanism

June 27
Ford Latest Automaker to Institute Layoffs amid Electric-Vehicle Push: Report

Clearing the Tabs May 15, 2020

Some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. It appears the month will be a long one, and a lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts, expect a post on May 31 as well.

May 1
Subways Seeded the NYC Epidemic: MIT Economist

The Pandemic Road to Serfdom
Our Covid-era oligarchs are fitting us for feudalism.

May 3
Letter from Los Angeles: The death of small business is a tragedy for Jewish community and democracy

May 4

Falling Prices Aren't 'Deflation.' They Instead Signal Booming Growth

Coronavirus and the Future of Public Policy

Congress, don't extend disincentives to work

May 6
Rethinking the Social Safety Net

May 7
Cuomo to Covid Volunteers: Pay Up
The governor imposes New York income taxes on the health-care workers from other states who answered his call to come fight coronavirus.

One Nation, Under Lockdown, Divided By Pandemic

May 8
Deindustrialization as a Template for COVID-19

May 9
Don’t bet on vitamin D to fight coronavirus, researchers warn

Coronavirus Is Worsening America’s Grim Fiscal Outlook
May 10
The flattened economy must be revived now

Hygienic fascism: Turning the world into a 'safe space' — but at what cost?

May 11
The Glory—and Risk—of Cities
From the beginning, urban density has yielded opportunity while also posing the danger of contagion.

May 12
Are California leaders 'losing the locker room' with coronavirus response?

May 13
Time to explode the Andrew Cuomo myth

May 14
Towards a Better Urbanism

The Dangerous Consequences of Renewables in the Age of COVID-19

May 15
Keeping schools closed in the fall is not a viable option