Clearing the Tabs November 30, 2022

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. And note that 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 18
My Friend, Mike Gerson
A beautiful writer with an even more beautiful soul

November 20
After Intersectionalism
As ideology takes a back seat to intergroup competition, the future of ethnic conflict in America is going to look more like the past

November 22
The Global Warming Shakedown, Part V

November 29
COP 27 Has No Backup Plan to Replace Products from Oil

November 30
The new global class war

Western elites' climate obsession is impoverishing the world's poorest.

Welcome to the New Era of Environmental Colonialism

Clearing the Tabs November 15, 2022

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 November 30. And note that 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 2
Is America entering a new age of democratic capitalism?
The contours of a post-pandemic economy are becoming clear

November 5
How You can Derail the Climate Agenda

November 7
West Coast Blues
Progressives in California, Oregon, and Washington confront the political consequences of bad governance.

November 9

A tale of two Americas
Red states are growing, while blue states are mired in lawlessness and decline.

November 10

Now watch Biden and Trudeau escalate their extreme progressivism
After midterms, don’t expect the common sense calvary, or Mounties, to come to the rescue

November 11
A Better Future
America doesn’t need to cram everyone into little boxes; we need to build new cities.

Living Up to the Name
West Coast voters reinforce their region’s commitment to progressivism.

Clearing the Tabs October 31, 2022

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 November 15. And note that 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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October 18
Ohio and the battle for populist America
Trump and Biden are both liabilities here

October 25
Finding Third Places Across America

October 30
The real American divide
Most Americans are moderate and pragmatic, but politics is dominated by cranks.

October 31
Biden, Trudeau choose green war on oil and gas over working class
In the U.S. midterm elections, green obsessions could help the Republicans beat even attractive Democratic candidates

Clearing the Tabs October 15, 2022

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 October 31. And note that 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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October 3
What really divides America
The Midterms aren't a battle between good and evil

Do Cities Have a Future?
With many office jobs not coming back, living preferences changing, and crime on the rise, cities must adapt and reform.

The Coming Green Electricity Nightmare
Hundreds of billions in new subsidies will bring expensive, unreliable, eco-destructive power

October 5
Tax Competition Works

October 8
Three Paths to Despotism
To halt the rise of authoritarianism, liberal democracies must restore hope of economic improvement, particularly among the young.

October 11
There is nothing progressive about a universal basic income
A ‘post-work’ society would strip workers of their agency and put them out to pasture.

October 14
Our Mad Aristos
Today’s billionaires fund the engine of their own destruction.

Clearing the Tabs September 30, 2022

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 October 15. And note that 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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September 16
Census Data Show Transit’s Devastation

September 19
Environmentalism Is a Fundamentalist Religion

September 22
Don’t Objectify Yourself
Thinking of yourself as an observer is better for your happiness than obsessing over being observed.

September 23
The revenge of the material economy
The future belongs to manufacturers, energy suppliers and farmers.

September 29
Technology Can Make Your Relationships Shallower
But it’s all in how you use it.

Clearing the Tabs September 15, 2022

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 September 30. And note that 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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September 1

Electric Car Mandates: The Latest Frontier in the Elites' War on the Middle Class

From Sri Lanka to Salinas
Will California - and the Nation - Learn Anything from Sri Lanka's Green Apocalypse?

Pandemic Reversal?

September 4

Can space save Earth?

ESG and Corporate Totalitarianism

September 6

Is the Automobile Industry Being Mandated Toward a Death Spiral?

September 7
Class Homicide
Massive inequality and the rise of a new feudal system have nearly destroyed the chances of social mobility.

September 10
The fall of Los Angeles
The ‘progressive’ elites have run the city of the future into the dirt.

September 12
Washington DC’s Energy Colonialism

Clearing the Tabs August 31, 2022

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 September 15. And note that 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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August 16

How Managerial Aesthetics Explain Why Cities Can't Authentically Market Themselves

August 17
If Global Warming Is Real, Capitalism Will Vanquish It

Collapse or Evolution?

August 19
Where Did Wokeness Come From?
Evaluating the theories

August 20
The Unexpected Future
We need to consider ways to reverse or at least slow rapid depopulation

How America is Failing Its Young Men

August 23
America has an Oedipus complex
Trust-fund radicals want to marry Mother Earth

August 24
“Inflation Reduction” Act will hinder EV growth

Rent Forever and Love It
The globalized commodification of housing will destroy democracy.

August 26
The revenge of the analog economy
Digital fantasies have collided with analog reality

August 27
Last WH polar bears ashore even later than 2009 as Hudson Bay finally becomes ice-free

Don’t be fooled by Sunak and the rest and their about face – their pretence that they were with us all along. Covid and lockdown carried them only so far – but they plan to go much further

August 30

The “Energy Transition” Delusion: A Reality Reset

President Newsom?
Conservatives should not dismiss the potential national appeal of California’s governor.

August 31

Energy transition: The land use conundrum