Joel Kotkin is a senior research fellow at the Civitas Institute. He is also the Roger Hobbs Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University where he directs the University’s Center for Demographics and Policy. He is also executive editor of the widely read website NewGeography.com. His columns appear regularly in Spiked (U.K.), the National Post in Canada, the American Mind, UnHerd, Quillette, the Los Angeles Times, National Review, City Journal, The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator among other national publications.

Kotkin is the author of many books, including The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class (Encounter Books, 2020); The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us (Agate B2, 2016); and The New Class Conflict (Telos Press Publishing, 2014), which describes the changing dynamics of class in America. He is the co-editor of The Future of Cities (American Enterprise Institute, 2022) which he co-edited with Ryan Streeter, executive director of the Civitas Institute; and Infinite Suburbia (Princeton Architectural Press, 2017) which he co-edited with MIT’s Alan Berger. Kotkin attended the University of California, Berkeley.