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"The New York Times Shows Why the Blue Model Is Doomed," says Walter Russell Mead . The Times ran a story, see, in which some gu...

So there's a site called Market Urbanism , against which I am predisposed for two reasons: because they announce chirpily in their heade...

Joel Kotkin, who’s been declaring urban life so over for years , is back to preach the gospel again to the conservatives who love his schti...

Normally when we talk here about conservative urbanists, we're talking about Joel Kotkin, who likes to argue that the blue-state cities...

Aargh blaargh from "professional comedian and writer" Stephen Kruiser over Seattle raising its minimum wage to $15: Hippie infe...

Blah blah blah : Historically, progressives were seen as partisans for the people, eager to help the working and middle classes achieve up...

For years now, Joel Kotkin's been telling us that the Blue States are through , because demographics. Things haven't worked out for...

A LITTLE GOOD NEWS. At Zero Hedge we hear from Brandon Martin , who believes the Republicans and the Democrats are colluding to make Americ...

MORE PREDICTIONS OF SUCCESS, MODIFIED FOR NEW REALITIES. Joel Kotkin has an essay about the failure of the blue states and the prospect th...

LIFE'S LITTLE PLEASURES. Now is a good to remind ourselves that things can go horribly wrong. I've seen good times, I've seen b...

THEY'VE GOT TO GET THEMSELVES BACK TO THE GARDEN. A few years ago I noted that National Review 's Stanley Kurtz really wanted Amer...