Clearing the Tabs July 31, 2026

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 have broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on August 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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July 17
How Socialism Captured the West Coast
Cities including Seattle, Portland, and Los Angeles have become new political battlegrounds for a socialist resurgence.

July 20
Cool Comfort Denied: Europe’s War on Air Conditioning

July 22
The End of the Populist Style
Populism won many of its battles and exhausted its act. What's emerging next is a new constructivism.

July 24
Trump is Right to Take On the Climate Litigation Complex
President Trump has laid into a new report from the National Academy of Sciences that purports to support 'extreme weather' climate litigation. He's right to do so.

July 26
Revenge of the Laffer Curve…Again

July 29
Beware the Experts Who Tie Prosperity to Consumption

July 31
‘California Never?’ Utopian City Faces Setbacks from Industrial Flight

Clearing the Tabs November 30, 2021

Ending November with some things I've read so far in the second half of 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, and will probably keep doing this for a while. Also, just because I share something on here does not mean I agree with it, but I think opposing ideas are good for the mind on occasion.

November 16

The Economy-Sapping Impact of the $15B Elon Musk Tax Will Be Largely Unseen

Mobility Principles for a Prosperous World

November 17
We need more families
Rising numbers of single people and plummeting birth rates are bad news for civilisation.

November 19

Greenlining is Remedy for Redlining and Bluelining

November 20
Wake up, progressives: You’re lucky to have Kyrsten Sinema

November 21
The Reshoring Imperative

Cambria County fights population loss in little, big ways

November 23
Revisionist History: Renowned Civil Rights Leader Savages the Anti-America '1619 Project'

The socialism America needs
The Left's agenda is more feudal than Marxist

Spending Restraint Is a Necessary Ingredient for Good Tax Policy

November 24
Why the 'Old North' States Have Been Economic Laggards
Hint: It’s not politics or failed strategy. But we have a 23-state region spanning the Great Plains, Midwest and Northeast, as well as some border states, that have consistently trailed the rest of the country.

November 29
Dot's, Rivian, Kohl's: Homegrown Successes Get Coastal Boosts

November 30
Minorities Monopolize California’s Suburban and Exurban Growth

The comic cries of climate apocalypse — 50 years of spurious scaremongering

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Clearing the Tabs September 30, 2021

September 16
Political Alchemy, Part II: Turning Spending Increases into Tax Cuts

September 17
Critical Race Theory Distracts from Widespread Academic Underachievement

September 19
Reagan, Biden, and the Facts on Government Spending

Survival of the City: The Need to Reopen the Metropolitan Frontier (Review)

September 20
Building on Jacobs: The City Emergent; Beyond Streets and Buildings
A science of cities reveals the way cities grow, and why.

September 21
What Happens When a Country Depends on Russia for Natural Gas?

Who Bears The Burden Of Taxes on Business?

Robert Woodson retires after 40 years of empowering communities

September 22
Eliminating crude oil is like jumping out of a plane without a chute

September 23
Even With Climate Change, the World Isn’t Doomed
Humanity has overcome far greater problems before and can do so again.

September 24
Congress can’t keep spending without consequences
Modern monetary theory says government overspending doesn’t matter. That’s wrong. The debt ceiling vote is an opportunity to address this problem.

September 25
The Enduring Relevance of Mises and Hayek’s Critique of Socialism

September 26
Here’s The List Of 317 Wind Energy Rejections The Sierra Club Doesn’t Want You To See

September 27
Never Going Back
What if they opened the office and nobody came?

September 30
A Profession Is Not a Personality
Reducing yourself to any single characteristic, whether it be your title or your job performance, is a deeply damaging act.

Joe Biden, Nowhere Man

Clearing the Tabs July 31, 2021

Ending July with some things I've read so far in the second half of 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, and will probably keep doing this for a while. Also, just because I share something on here does not mean I agree with it, but I think opposing ideas are good for the mind on occasion.

July 7

Historians Should Be Better Than This

July 13
Transit’s Dead End

California Fleeing

Some deny the Golden State’s demographic decline, but data make it hard to ignore.

July 15
Why California Housing Is So Expensive

July 27
$9 Reading Glasses, $16 Sunscreen, and the Genius of Economic Growth

July 29
To Advance the Climate Agenda: Never Waste Bad Weather

July 30

Gender Ideology Run Amok

"You only get to vote for socialism and communism once."

"You only get to vote for socialism and communism once."

— David Webb (@davidwebbshow) September 10, 2020

Clearing the Tabs April 2019

March 23
Understanding the appeal of democratic socialism key to defeating it

March 28
How to Bring Back Struggling Cities
A Manhattan Institute report offers strategies to revitalize such struggling cities as Johnstown, Pennsylvania; Pittsfield, Massachusetts; and Youngstown, Ohio.

April 2
'Equal Pay Day' and Other Meaningless Tropes

April 10
The End of Aspiration