From the Ground Up

Joel Kotkin is the author of twelve books including the influential The Coming of New Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class., The City :A Global History and Tribes. writes regularly for Spiked, Unherd, City Journal, National Review, the Los Angeles Times, Quillette and the National Post. Described as "America's uber geographer" by the NY Times David Brooks, he has lectured widely in North America, East Asia and Europe. He is currently the Roger Hobbs Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in California where he is executive director of the Center for Demographics and Policy. He also serves as a Senior Research Fellow of the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He has directed major studies on the impact of Latinos in America, the rise of "post-familialism", the technological society of California, the resurgence of religion around the world, as well as many others.