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Joel Kotkin

Author, The Human City. Fellow, @ChapmanU. Exec. Director of @OppUrbanism. Columnist @Forbes, @DailyBeast, @OCRegister

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Citizens on the Move

The contemporary social planner seems to favor all sorts of peoples' movements—except for the kind that involves automobiles, driven by citizens away from dense urban cores into the suburbs that they can afford. Today, Joel Kotkin (author of The Human City and The Coming of Neo-Feudalism) joins the podcast to discuss the new class of urbanists who brim with ideas for a city that won't work for the people meant to occupy them. Plus, Steve, James and Charlie quibble over Tuesday's debate, and they reflect on yet another 9/11 anniversary. - Soundclip from this week's open: Donald Trump and David Muir from ABC's Trump/Harris debate.
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Charles C. W. CookeJames LileksSteve Hayward
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June 2020

3 Whisky Happy Hour
3 Whisky Happy Hour

‘The Coming of Neo-Feudalism,’ with Joel Kotkin

Joel Kotkin is one of America's premier analysts of urbanism, urban economics, demographic change, and social trends. His brand new book, The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class, turns upside down the conventional liberal narrative about why the middle and working classes are under pressure. It's not capitalism and markets, but their perversions, especially in the hands of the tech oligarchs of Silicon Valley and through the overregulation of basic occupations and industries that prevent aspiring people from attaining a middle class standard of living, especially on the left-leaning coastal regions of the country. It does not take much imagination to make out the connections between the maladies Kotkin explains here and the riots and protests from the left of the last two weeks, but he thinks the real rebellion that we need is from the middle and working classes against this stifling neo-feudalism—a rebellion from the middle, so to speak, that will need to be both cultural and political.
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Steve Hayward
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