Joel Kotkin

Joel Kotkin is a Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Civitas Institute, the University of Texas at Austin.

How Blackstone killed the homeowner

15 Sep 2025

Don’t judge Trump’s economic agenda on one jobs report

07 Sep 2025

Trump’s factory revival is happening

04 Sep 2025

AI revolution will crush the blue states

24 Aug 2025

DC and LA failures play into Trump’s hands

14 Aug 2025

Democrats are not backing away from the Green New Deal

04 Aug 2025

Why the South is winning

28 Jul 2025

ICE backlash is pushing LA towards New York-style chaos

13 Jul 2025

Waning American pride threatens the Republic

04 Jul 2025

Beware the new eugenics

01 Jul 2025

Trump’s Iran ceasefire depends on American oil

24 Jun 2025

How Trump can win the space race

16 Jun 2025

AI is killing jobs and fuelling campus radicalism

15 Jun 2025

LA riots reflect failure of progressive leadership

08 Jun 2025

AI could turn Democrats into the new welfare class

27 May 2025

How China co-opted the green movement

21 May 2025

Blue-state housing crisis is costing Democrats voters

15 May 2025

Chinese influence is leaving California dangerously exposed

05 May 2025

Bad news for America doomers

02 May 2025

The Sun Belt will save Europe

28 Apr 2025

Can Democrats exploit Trump’s tariff chaos?

16 Apr 2025

Are the Democrats drifting further Left?

05 Apr 2025

Blue states could be biggest winners from Trump’s policies

30 Mar 2025

Does Gavin Newsom believe in anything?

25 Mar 2025

Tech bros have stolen Austin’s soul

28 Feb 2025

The return of American class politics

01 Feb 2025

LA fires extinguish Gavin Newsom’s presidential dream

26 Jan 2025

Even Hollywood is turning on LA Mayor Karen Bass

19 Jan 2025

LA’s dreams went up in flames

10 Jan 2025

The Lone Star State is soaring

19 Dec 2024

California doesn’t want Governor Kamala Harris

28 Nov 2024

Democrats need a new Clinton

15 Nov 2024

Who are the winners and losers from the US election?

06 Nov 2024

America’s destiny lies in the New South

01 Nov 2024

How the City of Angels went to hell

19 Oct 2024

Don’t buy Kamala Harris’s blue-collar rhetoric

26 Sep 2024

The future belongs to Fabians

17 Sep 2024

Democrats’ green agenda could gift Midwest to Trump

27 Aug 2024

Will we survive the sex war?

22 Aug 2024

Kamala Harris’s California record will haunt her

27 Jul 2024

After Biden, the Democrats should welcome defeat

22 Jul 2024

Biden’s Californian successors would be terrible for America

02 Jul 2024

Are progressives to blame for the worsening housing crisis?

09 Jun 2024

Republicans are posing a growing threat in blue states

02 Jun 2024

The economy, not Palestine, will undo Joe Biden

11 May 2024

Why London is beating America’s cities

29 Apr 2024

Gavin Newsom’s futile bid to ‘Trump-proof’ California

15 Apr 2024

Joe Biden’s climate plan is a threat to democracy

25 Mar 2024

Blue states should let ESG die

19 Mar 2024

California’s progressive regime weakens its grip

06 Mar 2024

California deficit soars to $73 billion

02 Mar 2024

Why are Americans becoming more stupid?

26 Feb 2024

Downtown San Francisco is beyond redemption

14 Feb 2024

Joe Biden’s war on fossil fuels is hurting America

01 Feb 2024

Goodbye to Davos — and good riddance

19 Jan 2024

RFK Jr.’s popularity shows that Americans aren’t despairing (yet)

15 Jan 2024

Joe Biden’s Democrat rivals are even worse than him

18 Dec 2023

Across America’s cities, voters are driving out progressives

14 Dec 2023

Joe Biden should listen to Republicans on the border crisis

06 Dec 2023

The West is turning away from COP28’s green agenda

27 Nov 2023

The Jewish civil war over Israel

24 Nov 2023

Xi Jinping emerges as the winner from San Francisco

16 Nov 2023

Democrats should think twice about Gavin Newsom

06 Nov 2023

Will Jews return to the Ghetto?

31 Oct 2023

Many of Hollywood and Silicon Valley’s Jews are silent on Israel

30 Oct 2023

Blue-collar workers are our only hope

22 Sep 2023

America’s sanctuary cities are falling apart

19 Sep 2023

America’s blue states are faring worst under Joe Biden

30 Aug 2023

Indian Americans are finding their political voice

14 Aug 2023

Debating Gavin Newsom will boost Ron DeSantis

08 Aug 2023

Gavin Newsom is taking his cultural crusade too far

31 Jul 2023

Bidenomics isn’t working

19 Jul 2023

Gavin Newsom: the President nobody needs

12 Jul 2023

France’s riots are following the George Floyd playbook

07 Jul 2023

Even progressive voters don’t like racial affirmative action

28 Jun 2023

The rise of the liberal apostate

21 Jun 2023

Secession is a threat Californians should take seriously

16 Jun 2023

The greatest generational conflict

09 Jun 2023

Nvidia’s boom is not a straightforward American success story

30 May 2023

Gavin Newsom meets reality with California’s budget deficit

16 May 2023

The harshest American divide

08 May 2023

Rescuing Ireland won’t save Biden

12 Apr 2023

We are on the cusp of a Democrat class war

31 Mar 2023

The Silicon Valley Bank collapse will hurt Joe Biden

24 Mar 2023

The SVB collapse marks the end of the Silicon Valley era

13 Mar 2023

The ghost of Ancient Rome haunts America

09 Mar 2023

California’s budget deficit spells trouble

23 Feb 2023

The fall of the Jewish gangster

22 Feb 2023

The moral grandstanding behind San Francisco’s reparations plan

18 Jan 2023

The collapse of the progressive economy

04 Jan 2023

How New York can survive

14 Dec 2022

The absurdity of California’s reparations proposal

06 Dec 2022

Anti-Semitism is creeping back into America

28 Nov 2022

The Democrats’ false victory

10 Nov 2022

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

26 Oct 2022

Ohio and the battle for populist America

18 Oct 2022

What really divides America

03 Oct 2022

San Francisco loses another 39,000 taxpayers

21 Sep 2022

Step aside NASA, Elon Musk is in charge now

06 Sep 2022

The Democrats’ green agenda is hurting Californians

02 Sep 2022