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Jun 22, 2026
The movie The Nutty Professor, both the original 1963 version starring Jerry Lewis and the successful remake by Eddie Murphy in 1996, is about a genius professor, obese but kind, who...
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May 26, 2026
The coming IPO for SpaceX matters less for its gargantuan size than because it marks a dramatic change in the tech sphere. The IPO has the potential to make SpaceX one of the...
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May 18, 2026
California’s tech oligarchs are portraying themselves as victims, as the left clamors to tax their wealth away. Perhaps they should take some responsibility. Once widely admired as...
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May 8, 2026
California’s tech elites have virtue-signalled their way to economic collapse.
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Apr 11, 2026
The migration of people, money, and companies out of California has evolved into a clear challenge to the economic future of the Golden State. Terrified by the loss of so much...
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Mar 4, 2026
And it’s what we need most—not an open border.
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Feb 27, 2026
California’s wealthy boomers are staying put as young families head for the exits, fleeing the anti-growth politics that make the state increasingly unaffordable.
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Feb 11, 2026
As the dominant economic and social force of our time, a handful of Silicon Valley-based companies shape our politics more than we’d like to admit. These tech oligarchs are not...
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Jan 24, 2026
Americans, like much of the world, are getting tired of Donald Trump. Like an old actor who still insists on playing romantic leads, he has managed to become a caricature of himself,...
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Jan 19, 2026
Jews are being marginalised and menaced in a way not seen since the 1940s.
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Jan 13, 2026
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.
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Jan 12, 2026
Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, when running for president in 1992, noted that Bill Clinton was “an unusually good liar”.
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Jan 8, 2026
Soaring housing costs are driving young people towards socialism—only dispersed development and expanded property ownership can preserve liberal democracy.
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Jan 7, 2026
An uninspiring far-left field is vying for the governor’s mansion.
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Jan 1, 2026
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.