San Fransicko
Why Progressives Ruin Cities

The author is an avowed liberal progressive, so I was utterly surprised by the history and current failings of west-coast progressives about homelessness, addiction, and mental illness that he meticulously researched. Tragic, but wholly correct about how progressives are ruining cities with the cons......more

San Fransicko : Why Progressives Ruin Cities (2021) by Michael Shellenberger is a fascinating take on what is wrong with San Francisco and other West Coast American Cities. Shellenberger is an activist, mainly on environmental causes but who also campaigned for drug legalisation in the 1990s. It’s r......more

Mixed bag. Started strong, then plunged off the rails. The most powerful and persuasive chapters of the book appear early on, contending that cities' homeless problems are actually utterly anarchic drug use crises that collide and commingle with mental illness to steadily erode civilization by the h......more

Anyone who is interested in empirically driven policy making should not be too offended to give this book a chance. For me, the book is not saying anything too radical. It's saying something evident, that a lot of people have an interest in not admitting. It's self-evident that whatever California h......more

Best to just grab some great facts and a few comments “California banned the sale of flavored tobacco, because it appeals to children, and the use of smokeless tobacco in the state’s five professional baseball stadiums. It prohibited the use of e-cigarettes in government and private workplaces, rest......more