Demographics

Many of Hollywood and Silicon Valley Jews Are Silent on Israel

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Back in the early days of California’s ascendancy, the state was described as “the Jews’ early paradise”, a place where the lack of social norms, and enormous opportunities, were ideal for enterprising people  read more »

Samuel Huntington was Right: Cultural and Religious Clashes are Driving War Today

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History is rearing its ugly head, and it would best not to look away. Time to put away our foolish utopian dreams and face the harsher, more divided world, predicted in Samuel Huntington’s 2011 book  read more »

Top Zip Codes for New Apartments: 2018 - 2022

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Rentcafe.com has just published a list of the 51 ZIP Codes in the United States that have had the most apartment construction over the last five years (2018-2022).  read more »

Why Jews Are Abandoning the Left

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For much of the past century, Jews across Britain, North America and Europe tilted decisively to the left. The recent atrocities committed by Hamas against Israel have challenged that trend  read more »

New Battle Lines and a New Political Geography Down Under

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On the 14th October 2023, Australians were asked to vote in a national (and compulsory) referendum to alter the Constitution “to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. read more »

About That Old Gallup Poll

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I have alluded many times to the rather astonishing results of an old Gallup poll that I myself commissioned  read more »

Implications of Shifts in Commuting

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There has been much speculation about how travel behavior has changed in the wake of the COVID pandemic. The answer to that important question is now coming into view.  read more »

By Men For Men

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I said I would follow up in more depth on the points I raised in my Wall Street Journal piece about why men turn to online influencers instead of mainstream authorities and institutions.  read more »

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Facing Reality on Single Parenthood

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Welcome to my weekly digest, with the best articles from around the web and a roundup of my recent writings and appearances.

The Atlantic has an article out called “Is Single Parenthood the Problem?.”  read more »

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Residential Building Permits Concentrated in South and Mountain West

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Texas and Florida lead the nation in residential building permits in 2023 through July.  read more »