Joel Kotkin
Joel Kotkin is the Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange, California and Executive Director of the Houston-based Urban Reform Institute. He is the author of 'The Human City', 'The New Class Conflict' and, most recently, 'The Coming of Neo-Feudalism'.
Neofeudalism and its new legitimisers
Today’s oligarchs depend on a modern, overwhelmingly liberal clerisy for legitimacy
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
Why Britain needs more empty homes
The UK’s housing sector is straining at the seams; empty units and second houses are a sign of economic health
Britain must develop economic resilience
The Houthis have exposed our devastating economic insecurity
Addressing misogyny must include addressing trans activism
Against the wokewashing of sexual objectification
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
Arresting the fertility crisis
Britain needs more babies — and it is far from alone
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
The F-word
A serious accusation should be treated with appropriate seriousness
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography