Joel Kotkin

Joel Kotkin is the Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and executive director of the Urban Reform Institute. His new book, The Coming of Neo-Feudalism, is now out from Encounter.

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Joel Kotkin is the Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and executive director of the Urban Reform Institute. His new book, The Coming of Neo-Feudalism, is now out from Encounter.

Nvidia’s boom is not a straightforward American success story

BY Joel Kotkin / 3 mins

Gavin Newsom meets reality with California’s budget deficit

BY Joel Kotkin / 3 mins

The harshest American divide

BY Joel Kotkin / 5 mins

Rescuing Ireland won’t save Biden

BY Joel Kotkin / 4 mins

We are on the cusp of a Democrat class war

BY Joel Kotkin / 2 mins

The Silicon Valley Bank collapse will hurt Joe Biden

BY Joel Kotkin / 2 mins

The SVB collapse marks the end of the Silicon Valley era

BY Joel Kotkin / 2 mins

The ghost of Ancient Rome haunts America

BY Joel Kotkin / 4 mins

California’s budget deficit spells trouble

BY Joel Kotkin / 2 mins

The fall of the Jewish gangster

BY Joel Kotkin / 7 mins

The moral grandstanding behind San Francisco’s reparations plan

BY Joel Kotkin / 2 mins

The collapse of the progressive economy

BY Joel Kotkin / 5 mins

How New York can survive

BY Joel Kotkin / 5 mins

The absurdity of California’s reparations proposal

BY Joel Kotkin / 3 mins

Anti-Semitism is creeping back into America

BY Joel Kotkin / 2 mins

The Democrats’ false victory

BY Joel Kotkin / 4 mins

From Boris to Trump, yesterday’s men won’t go away

BY Joel Kotkin / 2 mins

Ohio and the battle for populist America

BY Joel Kotkin / 4 mins

What really divides America

BY Joel Kotkin / 5 mins

San Francisco loses another 39,000 taxpayers

BY Joel Kotkin / 2 mins

Step aside NASA, Elon Musk is in charge now

BY Joel Kotkin / 2 mins

The Democrats’ green agenda is hurting Californians

BY Joel Kotkin / 2 mins

America has an Oedipus complex

BY Joel Kotkin / 5 mins

Why losing the midterms would be good for the GOP

BY Joel Kotkin / 3 mins

The biggest threat to the CHIPS Act? The Green Left

BY Joel Kotkin / 3 mins

Gavin Newsom won’t save the Democrats

BY Joel Kotkin / 4 mins

Why millennials are dropping out

BY Joel Kotkin / 5 mins

Democrats and Republicans need new champions

BY Joel Kotkin / 2 mins

The ‘Defund the Police’ fantasy lives on in LA

BY Joel Kotkin / 2 mins

The cost of Biden’s racialism

BY Joel Kotkin / 5 mins

Trump is the Democrat’s secret weapon

BY Joel Kotkin / 3 mins

The progressive revolution is in retreat

BY Joel Kotkin / 2 mins

The absurdity of California’s slave reparations bill

BY Joel Kotkin / 3 mins

California needs a recession

BY Joel Kotkin / 5 mins

Abortion won’t save the Democrats

BY Joel Kotkin / 2 mins

What the New York Times won’t admit about California

BY Joel Kotkin / 2 mins

Do we need a capitalist civil war?

BY Joel Kotkin / 5 mins

American unions are making a comeback

BY Joel Kotkin / 2 mins

Texas is the future

BY Joel Kotkin / 4 mins

The exodus continues from America’s biggest cities

BY Joel Kotkin / 2 mins

How a divided America empowers Putin

BY Joel Kotkin / 4 mins

Joe Biden is making the housing crisis worse

BY Joel Kotkin / 2 mins

The start of a counter-revolution in San Francisco

BY Joel Kotkin / 2 mins

Green hypocrisy hurts the poorest

BY Joel Kotkin / 5 mins

How Biden can defeat China

BY Joel Kotkin / 5 mins

California’s economy is weaker than it looks

BY Joel Kotkin / 2 mins

Is this the end of progressive America?

BY Joel Kotkin / 6 mins

Western greed fuels China’s domination

BY Joel Kotkin / 5 mins

How America’s progressive citadels became crime centres

BY Joel Kotkin / 3 mins

The socialism America needs

BY Joel Kotkin / 5 mins

Did critical race theory lose Virginia?

BY Joel Kotkin / 4 mins

Even Elon Musk is leaving California behind

BY Joel Kotkin / 2 mins

Can the South escape its demons?

BY Joel Kotkin / 5 mins

Gavin Newsom wins, but California loses

BY Joel Kotkin / 2 mins

Jim Crow returns to California

BY Joel Kotkin / 5 mins

Why did Larry Elder call me for advice?

BY Joel Kotkin / 2 mins

Critical Race Theory ignores anti-Semitism

BY Joel Kotkin / 7 mins

Biden’s border crisis could doom the Democrats

BY Joel Kotkin / 2 mins

How the Democrats fell for Mussolini

BY Joel Kotkin / 5 mins

The battle between the two Americas

BY Joel Kotkin / 5 mins

How America turned into the EU

BY Joel Kotkin / 6 mins

The looming Democrat Civil War

BY Joel Kotkin / 6 mins

The death of the American city

BY Joel Kotkin / 4 mins

California’s Governor won’t get what he deserves

BY Joel Kotkin / 2 mins

California is collapsing

BY Joel Kotkin / 5 mins