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'. He tweets at @joelkotkin
Neofeudalism and its new legitimisers
Today’s oligarchs depend on a modern, overwhelmingly liberal clerisy for legitimacy
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
NATO’s Ankara moment
NATO’s middle powers must not depend so heavily on the USA
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
The problem with the SNP’s separatist sympathies
We should not simply “move on” from the horrors of IRA terrorism
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
