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A New Inflationary Era May 20, 2021
In this provocative but calmly argued book, The Great Demographic Reversal, Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan predict a new era of widespread and lasting inflation. Goodhart, who has been a respected expert in financial, monetary, and central bankin...
How Much Blame Do Boomers Deserve? February 15, 2021
So, I’m a boomer, okay? I mean, a real Zelig of a boomer. I started Brandeis University just a few years after Abbie Hoffman and Angela Davis graduated. During my time there, two classmates, Kathryn Power and Susan Saxe, hooked up with a former convi...
Majority Minority? America? Don't Bet on It February 09, 2021
Remember the “coalition of the ascendant”? National Journal’s Ronald Brownstein invented the phrase in 2008 to describe the “growing elements of American society” that had elected Barack Obama and given Democrats commanding majorities in both congres...
OK, Boomers January 22, 2021
The story of America over the last half-century is the story of the baby boomers. Born between 1946 and 1964, the boomers were, for more than 50 years, the country’s largest generational cohort, and though millennials, born 1981-1996, finally overtoo...
Build Back Bigger January 04, 2021
Last April, as grocery stores in the United States struggled to keep toilet paper on the shelves and hospitals’ supply of protective equipment ran low, an essay from venture capitalist Marc Andreessen popped into the Twitter feeds of the quarantined ...
The Coming Global Backlash against China January 04, 2021
The Chinese Communist Party’s leader, Xi Jinping, is the most powerful leader in Communist China since Chairman Mao. Yet, Xi’s outward strongman image is a veneer over his inner insecurity. When he came into power in late 2012, China’s economy had sl...
More People, Fewer Problems December 07, 2020
Six years ago Matthew Yglesias co-founded the news and policy website Vox. That venture, begun when Obama-era progressivism appeared to have vanquished all before it, was designed not to argue for liberal policies but patiently to “explain” them to a...
How the GOP Can Win Over Millennials October 26, 2020
Joel Kotkin, the Presidential Fellow of Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., has written extensively on demographics, housing, and issues related to income inequality in the 21st century. Kotkin often blends research on demographics...
Be Afraid, Very Afraid: Part III October 21, 2020
AmazonWhile California prefers to extort, humiliate, and harass its actual citizens—especially the law-abiding, tax-paying, productive ones—it rolls out a bright red carpet for everyone else. That passage in the U.S. Constitution where it says that...
Anne Applebaum's Pride and Prejudice October 16, 2020
This is not a book, but rather an Atlantic essay puffed into a $25 sale item with grotesquely large type and comically wide margins. The typography offends the eye almost as much as the content offends the mind. It is a barely coherent rant against e...
Be Afraid, Very Afraid: Part II October 16, 2020
AmazonNot that the aforementioned glamour and glory, wealth and wellness aren’t real. But they’re only part of the story—the parts that Governor Gavin, Sergey, Larry, Mark, @Jack, and, down south, Ah-nold, Steven, and the rest of tout-Hollywood wan...
Demography and the Populists’ Destiny August 02, 2019
Before Representative Steve King (R-Iowa) was stripped of his congressional committee assignments, he played a dangerous—some would say duplicitous—game. He would dance right up to the line of espousing racialist politics—retweeting figures linked to...
