Mayors to Cities: Drop Dead
Far-left policies on policing, education, and taxation are pushing Los Angeles, Chicago, and others to the brink.
Rick Cole has spent several decades running cities, both as an elected official and as a planner. He has worked in suburban Azusa, California, and progressive-dominated Santa Monica and currently sits on the Pasadena City Council. Yet as he looks out at the urban future, he feels despair—most particularly, about the city of Los Angeles, where he recently departed as deputy mayor and chief deputy controller.
“The progressives are not focused on governance,” he suggested over sushi in Little Tokyo, a stone’s throw from City Hall. “They prefer virtue-signaling to running a city.” Cole’s is not the complaint of a conservative but someone who identifies as “a pragmatic progressive,” even a “sewer socialist.” The problem, he says, is that today’s progressives lack a “results-oriented approach” that actually helps residents.
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Liberal Democracy Reexamined: Leo Strauss on Alexis de Tocqueville
This article explores Leo Strauss’s thoughts on Alexis de Tocqueville in his 1954 “Natural Right” course transcript.
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Long Distance Migration as a Two-Step Sorting Process: The Resettlement of Californians in Texas
Here we press the question of whether the well-documented stream of migrants relocating from California to Texas has been sufficient to alter the political complexion of the destination state.
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Who's That Knocking? A Study of the Strategic Choices Facing Large-Scale Grassroots Canvassing Efforts
Although there is a consensus that personalized forms of campaign outreach are more likely to be effective at either mobilizing or even persuading voters, there remains uncertainty about how campaigns should implement get-out-the-vote (GOTV) programs, especially at a truly expansive scale.
Joel Kotkin: Trump aside, Canada and the U.S. need to co-operate
Our economies are linked; we more the same language and we're learning that mass, unregulated immigration is no solution to economic sloth
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Selling America Short
What has enhanced America’s reputation are the sacrifices we have made for our long-term self-interest.
Trial Lawyers and the Future of Oil & Gas in the Bayou
Michael Toth reports on the Supreme Court case that will determine whether oil and gas companies can stop politically-connected Louisiana trial lawyers from fleecing them.
