Publisher of Model Citizen. Formerly: New York Times contributing opinion writer; US politics correspondent for The Economist; columnist forRead more
As you may have gathered from my previous post, I’ve become interested in cryptocurrency and...
America's emerging crypto interests need to get their heads in the political game and invest in...
My old friend John Tomasi, newly installed as the President of the Heterodox Academy, has written a...
The former mayor of Beverly Hills is SO MAD about duplexes! I’m a little late to this but don’t...
This week, Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom crushed the bid to oust him from office by a...
Subscriber audio of “Republicans Finally Caught the Car,” Model Citizen, September 3, 2021
The Back-Alley Reversal of Roe Just Made the GOP Unsafe for Right-leaning Women Texas has banned...
Subscriber audio of “The Density Divide and the Southernification of Rural America,” Model Citizen,...
When I was a kid, the accents changed. Driving north from central Iowa through the corn toward...
According to the promo copy for Honestly with Bari Weiss, a podcast hosted by Bari Weiss, “The most...
The QAnon conspiracy narrative is built from absolutely insane pieces and lots of people believe in...
TLDR: Definitely; Maybe It’s now widely known that the distinctive American style of zoning...
California Senate Bill 50, legislation developed by Scott Weiner, a pro-housing state senator,...
It’s conventional wisdom that land use regulation, like zoning, is a “local issue.” It isn’t,...
California’s population is shrinking. The Los Angeles Times reported: California lost 182,083...
This Dispatch piece by Jonah Goldberg is extremely useful in illustrating the centrality of...
This is my question: can we YIMBY harder? Many people are awakening to the enormous costs of...
I’ve been trying to keep my cool, but the right’s defense of new Republican-authored laws...
The Canadian economist Robert Mundell, winner of the 1999 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences...
Nearly everyone agrees that the American system is, in some sense, rigged. If it is, then how did...