Interview with Joel Kotkin, Author, The Next Hundred Million:
America in 2050  Thinking in Public  June 3, 2011  (This is a
rush transcript. This copy may not be in its final form and may
be updated)  Mohler: This is “Thinking in Public,” a program
dedicated to intelligent conversation about front line
theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping
them. I’m Albert Mohler, your host, and President of The
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
We are besieged by a literal dialogue of data. Much of it is
about population, economics, and finance. Much of it has to do
with racial and class and of course, political. But finding our
way through the data can be really challenging. A few seem to
have the gift of looking at the data and telling us what the
picture is, what the story is going to be and where all of this
information is pointing us. My conversation today is with just
one of those people. Joel Kotkin has been described by the New
York Times as America’s uber geogra