Joel Kotkin

In this book, Kotkin assesses the changing complexities of class in the United States, which he argues can no longer be understood in terms of traditional political divisions between left and right or conservative and liberal.

For Kotkin, the new class order of the twenty-first century is marked by the rise of a high-tech oligarchy, a culturally dominant academic and media (both journalism and entertainment) elite, an expansive government bureaucracy, and a declining middle class.

[6][7][8] In The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050 (Penguin Press, 2010),[9] Kotkin speculated how the nation might evolve in the next four decades.

Kotkin believes in a "back to basics" approach which stresses nurturing the middle class and families with traditional suburban development.

[11] Kotkin wrote The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class (Encounter Books, 2020).