Zohran Mamdani may represent the future of New York, but only by destroying the secrets of its past success. The city, even under the quasi-socialist mayor Fiorello La Guardia, has from its Dutch days been a fundamentally capitalist enterprise. read more »
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Under Zphran Mamdani, the Jewish Exodus from New York is Likely to Accelerate
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The Midwest Climate Critique is Bogus
Every so often I see that someone makes the claim that people are leaving the Midwest because the weather sucks. That claim is bogus. read more »
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Homes for Hipsters
More than his good looks, charm and great social-media game, the biggest reason that Zohran Mamdani may become New York’s next mayor grows from his focus on the city’s affordability crisis, most of which is tied to high housing prices. read more »
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Do Driverless Cars Hallucinate Electric Sheep?
Waymo is operating driverless taxis in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco, partnering with Uber in Atlanta and Austin, and expanding into Miami and Washington DC soon. read more »
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Beware the New Eugenics
Visionaries, dreamers, and autocrats have long dreamt of reshaping humanity to their preferred model. read more »
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The Big Beautiful Bill Torpedoes Big Solar & Big Wind
Last November, I published 10 can’t miss predictions about the presidential election. One of my predictions was that if Donald Trump won another term in the White House, he wouldn’t repeal the alt-energy subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act. I wrote: read more »
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Carney's Canada Will Devolve into Feudalism
Canada may have severed its feudal ties less violently, but like America, it experienced far less sustained aristocratic domination than either of its two mother countries, France and Great Britain. read more »
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The Cruel Inhumanity of the YIMBY Movement
A large and ever-expanding body of research demonstrates what anyone with a reasonable functional frontal cortex knows instinctively: Human beings benefit in myriad ways – physically, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually – from spending time in nature. read more »
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AI is Killing Jobs and Fueling Campus Radicalism
Revolution and disruption rarely stem from the poor and destitute, but from what Alexis de Tocqueville described as “a revolution of rising expectations”. read more »
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Spain’s Impossible Dream of ‘Green’ Electricity
Updated Man of La Mancha lyrics could read: “To dream the impossible dream of clean, green, net-zero electricity, to fight the unbeatable foe of manmade climate cataclysms, we must run where the brave dare not go.” read more »
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