Author: Kaitlin Hopkins

It takes one back to Paris and that question, and maybe it was this way for more than a decade, or so argues Michael Lind in a discussion of what was called the New Economy in the nineties.

Michael on Just Above Sunset

The recession may have slowed the pace of net migration, but the essential pattern has remained in place. People continue to leave places like New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles for more affordable, economically viable regions like Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio. Overall, the big winners in net migration have been predominately conservative states like Texas–with over 800,000 net new migrants–notes demographer Wendell Cox. In what Cox calls “the decade of the South,” 90% of all net migration went to southern states.

Joel on Brothers Judd Blog

The Clintonites were wrong. The “new economy” was an illusion. Neoliberals have to admit that before they can stop the bleeding.

Michael on Which Way California?

If you read them carefully, you’ll notice that their visions aren’t entirely incompatible. Kotkin focuses on America’s enduring economic strengths: Our demographic balance (which compares favorably to Europe and Asia alike), our still-vast natural resources, our entrepreneurial culture, our ability to assimilate immigrants, and so on. Deneen emphasizes the weakening of our liberal political order, with its threefold emphasis on liberty, equality and prosperity.

Joel in the NY Times

The same goes for Joel Kotkin as regards his home state of California. Kotkin, who is a fellow at Chapman University and executive editor of NewGeography.com, was quoted in the article comparing high-tax California to low-tax Texas. A couple of decades ago, he said, services in Texas were noticeably inferior to services in the California. “Today, you go to Texas, the roads are no worse, the public schools are not great but are better than or equal to ours, and their universities are good,” he was quoted as saying.

Joel on NJ.com

Joel Kotkin, a Chapman University fellow focused on urban planning, said he doubts anyone wanting the urban experience of living downtown would flock to Riverside instead of true urban centers. People have historically moved to the Inland region for the opposite of condo-living: a single-family home with ample space.

Joel on The Press-Enterprise

“The danger is that a slow city ends up as a city for the geriatric rich and the trustafarians,” said Joel Kotkin, an urban analyst and author of “The City, a Global History.”

Joel in the NY Times

Why so down on the United States? asks Joel Kotkin in New Geography (and Forbes), taking shots at prophets of decline on both the right and the left.

Joel in The New York Times

Joel on Burber

Kotkin is a very rare thing: a principled moderate. He went Obami in the last election. He’s over that now.

Joel on Often Wrong, Never in Doubt