Get the Ricochet app

Ricochet will work fine in a browser on your mobile devices, but for the best experience please download our app.

Download on the App StoreGet it on Google Play

Become a member.

Tired of the toxicity of social media? Why not join Ricochet for just $5/month? Think of it as an online bar. Come in, have a drink, hang out, say whatever you want. But don’t badger, bully, or berate the other drinkers. That's our only rule.

Citizens on the Move

Subscribe to The Ricochet PodcastSubscribe

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.

Hosts:
Charles C. W. CookeJames LileksSteve Hayward
Guest:
JKJoel Kotkin

Discussion (20)

  • Samuel Block@SamuelBlock
    ReplyingtoDuane Oyen

    Duane Oyen (View Comment):

    Has anyone ever explained why Peter never, and Rob seldom, show up for their podcast any longer? I love Charles and Steve, but they also have their own podcasts to manage. We seem to have slipped into a stealth regime change…..

    Peter's had a very busy summer, and Rob just started his divinity school studies. We're working out details for the future of the show. They'll be back on soon enough to give updates.

  • J Ro@JRo

    When you see strange ways of living in a big city, you can be sure that lots of complicated regulations make it so.

    ”Get off my lawn.” Apartment block, Shibuya, Tokyo

  • RufusRJones@RufusRJones

    He almost literally said that the GOP should drop all the abortion threats because the rest of the platform makes so much sense.

    Set it at 11 weeks and forget about it for the next four presidential cycles.

Scroll for later comments
+15 more comments
Join the conversation

You're seeing five of 20 comments. Sign in, or join for just $5 per month, to read them all and add your own.