The “American Dream,” bred and refined in cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, is in widespread disorderly retreat, according to Joel Kotkin. But not everywhere. In Unherd, Kotkin notes that it is flowering in Texas, a state that still celebrates entrepreneurship and freedom and is reaping the rewards population growth, economic development and plentiful jobs.

Radical Transgenderism Takes Another Hit
The 11,000-member American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) – which includes hundreds of Canadian members – “has come out unequivocally against ‘gender-affirming’ surgeries in adolescents under age 19,” writes Leor Sapir in City Journal. The ASPS has also joined a growing number of international organizations in warning about the potential physical and psychological damage to children and teens of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
[Editor’s note: Two days after the ASPS’s announcement, the American Medical Association announces it now agrees that gender-altering “surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood.”]


