Executive Editor JOEL KOTKIN on The Times Gazette regarding urbanization

The book, released next week, explores how the nation will evolve in the next four decades. Last week, Dr. Kotkin published an essay in Forbes Magazine about what he called "America's Agricultural Angst." Among other things, the professor explained that current political efforts will have a profoundly negative impact on farming, particularly "stricter rules on the use of pesticides, prohibitions on the caging of chickens and a growing movement to ban the use of genetic engineering in crops." These policies, and others like them, "could undermine a sector that has performed well over the past decade and has excellent long-term prospects," he said.

Joel on The Times Gazette