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Has the baseball Hall of Fame transitioned from being a museum celebrating the history of the greatest players and feats in baseball to being a museum merely celebrating the favorite players of an egotistical media? It's a leading question, I know. The failure to induct the greatest and
Demographics
For most of the last hundred years, the dominant fear in academic and policy circles has been that the world was growing too fast. Too many people, too many mouths, too much consumption, and not enough resources to sustain it all. From the Club of Rome to The Population Bomb,
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In all formal channels of society, it seems that the glorification of athletes, celebrities, and musicians is on the rise. Media nearly across the board have sympathized with Players Unions in disputes with team ownership at all levels of professional sports, regardless of the issue. They’ve pushed for college
Cities
We’ve written about the vision for NEOM multiple times on Capital Frontiers. NEOM is the massive new city project Saudi Arabia launched in 2017 in the country’s northwest corner by Jordan, a priority project of the Crown Prince with the objective to create an unparalleled and unprecedented reinvention
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When the ownership of the Cleveland Indians decided to change the team’s name a few years ago, the opportunity presented them a generational opportunity to rebrand not only the Cleveland Baseball Team but, in some ways, the entire city of Cleveland, for the next century. With the recent announcement
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Here is a breakdown of how we spend the Federal Budget ($4.5 trillion circa 2020). This budget amounts to around 21.6% of our national GDP. Entitlements (~57%) · Social Security: $1 trillion · Medicate, Medicaid, CHIP, and marketplace subsidies: $1 trillion · Other safety net programs: $361 billion Defense (~17%) · Defense:
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Although cities notoriously lean left in America, with Republican voter concentrations predominating in more rural and suburban locales, a few cities match their cosmopolitan qualities with conservative values. Based on Presidential Election data, below is a ranking of the only major cities in America in which the county containing the
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His other policies aside, Donald Trump was wrong about one thing: his February 8th, 2020 tweet insisting Pete Rose should be a lock for the Hall of Fame. In 1989 Pete Rose was banned from baseball, and with his shunning lost any hope of ever being enshrined in the Baseball
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The three “master builders” of American architecture – Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Frank Lloyd Wright – each influenced the country’s development over the last century in profound ways. But while it is the former two who predominately shaped the high-rise character of American’s commercial downtowns amid
Cities
It’s an uncomfortable question for planners, mayors, and urban theorists alike: what if most people never really wanted to live in cities in the first place? For decades, the prevailing narrative has been that cities are the apex of civilization—a place where ideas collide, creativity thrives, and human
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Like a front line of untuned and misshapen trumpets, a chorus of discordant pessimism blares negativity about humanity’s future. David Attenborough, through his recent article for the UK’s Telegraph, has taken first chair, but competition is fierce. From spit valves to sweat glands, the choir of discord drips
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Originally published on New Geography 2017's tragic events in Charlottesville kickstarted a somber debate about the appropriate way to commemorate the war that gave all Americans their freedom. It also triggered a conversation about whether the south’s legacy of rebellion and independence – with slavery a painful and