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Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of the American male author whose time has now come again.

California needs more water. Periodic droughts, worsening in duration and severity, make that plain. But the failure of California’s policymakers to invest in water supply infrastructure, at the same time as they enact escalating restrictions on how much water can be withdrawn from rivers or extracted from the ground, have made a manageable situation intolerable. The conventional wisdom is both biased and narrow. Lawns are “Eurocentric,” so instead of just limiting how much pesticide, herbicide and fertilizer gets dumped onto them, they must be eliminated entirely despite their ...

California has always been a trendsetter. Today more than ever, California’s cultural power combines with its extraordinary natural beauty to make it a unique society with influence felt around the world. California, despite its many challenges, is still a land of dreamers and innovators. The problems in California are not caused by lack of good intentions. They are the result of good intentions that have been based on false premises and inaccurate assumptions. They are the result as well of good intentions that have been hijacked by special interests. But California’s innate power, the...

The challenges facing Americans today will be overcome, as they always have. America’s best days are in the future. The planet is not experiencing an unmanageable climate crisis, and whatever ravages of extreme weather we experience are just the latest expressions of timeless phenomena to which we will adapt and continue to thrive. As we move further into the 21st century, liberty and prosperity are enjoyed by more people in more places than ever before. By every metric of human achievement and quality of life, the world has never been better. This fact, that almost anyone presented with ...

Some of the biggest choices facing Americans today are not obvious. Meanwhile, public debate on the most attention-grabbing issues that Americans confront are avoiding discussion about the most critical underlying causes. The Future is Now offers a guide to understanding the forces behind some of the biggest challenges Americans face in the 21st Century: Globalization and globalism, the politicization of climate change, censorship, the impact of unionized government, the rise of China, policies driving up the cost of housing, counterproductive policies affecting the homeless, the conflict ...