Joel Kotkin

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  • Dec 2, 2025
    The purchase of Paramount and CBS by David Ellison – scion of Larry Ellison, the world’s third-richest man, with a $250 billion tech fortune – marks a shift away...
  • Nov 12, 2025
    In a recent focus group we held with 11 U.S. and foreign-born Latinos in Riverside, California, most of the participants expressed grave concerns about the breakup of hard-working...
  • Oct 16, 2025
    Nearly 60 years ago, Time magazine, then an important publication, posed a discomfiting question on its cover: “Is God Dead?” Yet today, a spiritual hunger...
  • Jun 2, 2025
    This is the second of a two-part series on the global housing crisis. Read the first installment here. The affordable housing crisis in America and many other advanced countries...
  • May 28, 2025
    The first in a two-part series on the global housing crisis. Next to inflation, Americans ranked housing as their top financial worry in a Gallup survey last May. It’s only...
  • Apr 8, 2025
    California’s wide range of problems – including declining schools, widening inequality, rising housing prices, and a weak job market – show the urgent need for...
  • Apr 4, 2025
    California’s economic, academic, media, and political establishment still embraces the notion of the state’s inevitable supremacy. “The future depends on...