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.
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
