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Feudal Future Podcast: Progressive Conservatism

Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 18:16:07 -0400

On this episode of Feudal Future, hosts Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky are joined by Francis H Buckley, Foundation Professor at George Mason University, to speak about progressive conservatism.

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Latest Research: From Chapman’s Center of Demographics & Policy, Joel Kotkin & Marshall Toplansky co-author the new report on restoring The California Dream.

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Joel Kotkin talks with Robert Bryce on 'The Power Hungry Podcast'

Robert Bryce — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 21:36:26 -0400

In his second appearance on the Power Hungry Podcast, Kotkin discusses his recent article for Quillette, “The New Great Game,” how China and Russia are allying against the West, why America needs “a new nationalism” to counter this alliance, how California’s administrative state is crushing the poor and the middle class, Michael Shellenberger’s gubernatorial bid, energy, housing, and why despite his many concerns, he remains bullish on the future of the United States.

Joel Kotkin is a demographer, journalist, author, and executive editor of NewGeography.com.

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Welcome to the End of Democracy and It's Not Trump's Fault

Tällberg Foundation — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 11:45:16 -0500

"We may remain, as we are now, nominally democratic, but be ruled by a technocratic class empowered by greater powers of surveillance than those enjoyed by even the noisiest of dictatorships.”

Those words were written by Joel Kotkin in a recently published essay on democracy’s demise. Donald Trump is not the villain of the piece, as most pundits want us to believe, nor other populists outside the United States. Rather, Kotkin argues that the withering of democratic process and institutions reflects the deeper transformation of American and European societies: the emergence of a ruling technocracy; the use of the pandemic and the environmental crisis to constrain individual rights; the new concentration of power in governments, and the growing distance between the governing and the governed. All of it is made worse by the mind-boggling concentration of economic wealth, which is as much an issue in China as it is in the United States.

Kotkin’s analysis deserves our attention. What do you think—not about Trump, but about democracy? Who can do what to bend the arc away from the dystopian end game that he and others describe?

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The Tällberg Foundation, launched in 1981, exists to explore the issues that are challenging —and changing— our societies. Today, those challenges are profound: the world that we have known since the mid 20th century, which produced unprecedented peace as well as human advance, is changing at a pace and in directions that threaten to evolve towards Orwellian dystopia.

Feudal Future Podcast — Rural Urban Migration and Class Structure in China with Li Sun

Charlie Stephens — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 17:09:42 -0400

In the third episode of the Feudal Future podcast, hosts Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky, interview guest Li Sun. Li is a lecturer in sociology and social policy at the University of Leeds in the UK. Originally from China, she has resided in several other countries since 2007, and is a consultant for the UN, the World Bank, the OECD, and the governments of the UK, the Netherlands, and China. Li’s main areas of research interest are China’s urbanization and globalization, and she is the author of Rural-Urban Migration and Policy Intervention in China.

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The Life of a Dissident Urbanist (with Patrik Schumacher and Wendell Cox)

Alicia Kurimska — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 17:50:55 -0500

Patrik Schumacher, managing partner of Zaha Hadid Architects, and consultant Wendell Cox join Aaron M. Renn on his podcast to speak on their beliefs and what it's like to challenge the urbanist conventional wisdom.

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How Demographics Explain the World

Aaron M. Renn — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 09:59:11 -0400

Demographics may not be destiny, but they do play a huge role in driving the fortunes of society and the economy. Sami Karam of Populyst joined me for a podcast on demographic trends around the world. The conversation ranged from the rise of China to the fall of Japan – and even why Occupy Wall Street failed to achieve lift-off.

Topics include:

0:00 Introduction and overview of Sami Karam’s work
2:20 Why Occupy Wall Street didn’t take off
3:15 Demographics on the problems of the Japanese economy
3:50 What does demographics tell us about the rise of China?
7:49 What is the demographic future of Africa?
12:45 How will declining European and booming African population interact?
17:30 An overview of the Populyst Index
21:32 Is the demographic dividend a Faustian bargain?

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