While there is plenty of literature on California's history, topography, and attractions, The Beholden State: California's Lost Promise and How to Recapture It is the first book examining in rigorous detail how a place seen just a generation ago as the dynamic engine of the American future could, through bad policy ideas, find itself with among the highest unemployment rates and poorest educational outcomes in the country
While there is plenty of literature on California's history, topography, and attractions, The Beholden State: California's Lost Promise and How to Recapture It is the first book examining in rigorous detail how a place seen just a generation ago as the dynamic engine of the American future could, through bad policy ideas, find itself with among the highest unemployment rates and poorest educational outcomes in the country
Brian C. Anderson is the editor of City Journal, the cultural and political quarterly published by the Manhattan Institute, where he writes extensively on social and political trends. Formerly, he served as senior editor of City Journal and as a research associate at the American Enterprise Institute.
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Contents Preface William Simon Introduction Brian C. Anderson Part I: The Politics and Economics of Decline The Golden State's War on Itself Joel Kotkin The Big-Spending, High-Taxing, Lousy-Services Paradigm William Voegeli The Beholden State Steven Malanga Cali to Business: Get Out! Steven Malanga The Long Stall Wendell Cox The Pension Fund That Ate California Steven Malanga Flatten California! Arthur B. Laffer The Radical Reform That California Needs Troy Senik Part II: The Urban Fiscal Crisis Lost Angeles Joel Kotkin How the Road to Bell Was Paved William Voegeli Broken Windows, Broken City Steven Greenhut Part III: Public Order The Reclamation of Skid Row Heather Mac Donald The LAPD Remade John Buntin The Sidewalks of San Francisco Heather Mac Donald Part IV: Of Energy and Environment California Needs a Crude Awakening Tom Gray California's Water Wars Victor Davis Hanson Part V: Immigration Dilemmas The Rainbow Coalition Evaporates Steven Malanga California's Demographic Revolution Heather Mac Donald Part VI: Education The Worst Union in America Troy Senik The Bilingual Ban That Worked Heather Mac Donald The Union's Occupation Ben Boychuk HED TK Ben Boychuk Grading the Teachers Larry Sand HED TK Heather Mac Donald Part VII: The Culture The Lost Art of War Andrew Klavan Radical Graffiti Chic Heather Mac Donald Tom Wolfe's California Michael Anton Part VIII: Keep Hope Alive The Silicon Lining Guy Sorman California, Here We Stay Victor Davis Hanson
Contents Preface William Simon Introduction Brian C. Anderson Part I: The Politics and Economics of Decline The Golden State's War on Itself Joel Kotkin The Big-Spending, High-Taxing, Lousy-Services Paradigm William Voegeli The Beholden State Steven Malanga Cali to Business: Get Out! Steven Malanga The Long Stall Wendell Cox The Pension Fund That Ate California Steven Malanga Flatten California! Arthur B. Laffer The Radical Reform That California Needs Troy Senik Part II: The Urban Fiscal Crisis Lost Angeles Joel Kotkin How the Road to Bell Was Paved William Voegeli Broken Windows, Broken City Steven Greenhut Part III: Public Order The Reclamation of Skid Row Heather Mac Donald The LAPD Remade John Buntin The Sidewalks of San Francisco Heather Mac Donald Part IV: Of Energy and Environment California Needs a Crude Awakening Tom Gray California's Water Wars Victor Davis Hanson Part V: Immigration Dilemmas The Rainbow Coalition Evaporates Steven Malanga California's Demographic Revolution Heather Mac Donald Part VI: Education The Worst Union in America Troy Senik The Bilingual Ban That Worked Heather Mac Donald The Union's Occupation Ben Boychuk HED TK Ben Boychuk Grading the Teachers Larry Sand HED TK Heather Mac Donald Part VII: The Culture The Lost Art of War Andrew Klavan Radical Graffiti Chic Heather Mac Donald Tom Wolfe's California Michael Anton Part VIII: Keep Hope Alive The Silicon Lining Guy Sorman California, Here We Stay Victor Davis Hanson
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