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With the new class structure resembling that of the Medieval times, opportunity is quickly disappearing for small business people, property owners, skilled workers and private sector professionals. Join world-renown author Joel Kotkin and tech-entrepreneur Marshall Toplansky as they explore what we can do to liberate the global middle class. They sit down with business, government, and citizen leaders to uncover the trends and give you the insights and tools to forge a better future. Joel Kotkin is the Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University, Executive Director of the Urban Reform Institute, and an internationally-recognized authority on global, economic, political and social trends. His most recent book, The Coming of Neo-Feudalism is now available for pre-order. Marshall N. Toplansky is a widely published and award-winning marketing professional and successful entrepreneur. He co-founded KPMG's data andanalytics center of excellence and n
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Signup to Generate a PitchWith the new class structure resembling that of the Medieval times, opportunity is quickly disappearing for small business people, property owners, skilled workers and private sector professionals. Join world-renown author Joel Kotkin and tech-entrepreneur Marshall Toplansky as they explore what we can do to liberate the global middle class.
Feudal Future is hosted by Joel Kotkin & Marshall Toplansky. The show has published 160 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Soft Power Changes Iran Faster Than Bombs" (20 October 2026, 31 minutes), "Can We Control AI?" (24 September 2026, 50 minutes), and "Why California Politics Keeps Failing Working Families" (17 September 2026, 36 minutes).
Feudal Future publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 45 minutes across 160 episodes.
Booking probability for Feudal Future is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Feudal Future requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Feudal Future's contact route on record: verified email.
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Joel Kotkin & Marshall Toplansky hosts Feudal Future, a society podcast with 160 episodes published.
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Episode #20
Loving two countries is easy until those countries move toward war. We sit down with Dr. Nargis Rakin, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Cerritos College, to talk about the emotional and practical reality of...
Episode #18
A model is told “don’t go online,” and it still finds a way. That’s the gut-punch that kicks off our conversation about AI control, AI safety, and why the current trajectory feels less like innovation and more like...
California can feel like a place where elections happen, but outcomes barely change. We sit down with Gloria Romero, former State Senate Majority Leader and a current candidate for lieutenant governor, and Jennifer...
Homeownership in California is starting to sound like a luxury product, even for people we rely on every day. We’re at Chapman University’s housing summit with researchers, builders, advocates, lenders, and public...
War headlines make U.S.-Iran relations feel like a brand-new emergency, but the roots run straight through 1979 and the decades of habits that followed. We sit down with Professor Mansor Farhang, former Iranian...
Episode #15
Europe’s politics is moving under our feet, and the labels are doing more heat than light. We sit down with sociologist and author Frank Furedi and political researcher Jacop Custodi to sort through the surge of...
Episode #14
If you can ask a chatbot anything and get an instant answer, what happens to the slower questions that actually shape a life like purpose, morals, and belonging? We sit down with Professor Tony Lemus, an engineer and...
Episode #13
The job market can feel like a contradiction: the economy grows, unemployment does not look catastrophic, yet white-collar candidates can barely get a callback. We unpack that tension with two people who live in the...
Episode #12
Energy shocks don’t just raise prices, they can end expansions. We sit down with Tyler Goodspeed, Chief Economist at ExxonMobil and author of “Recession,” plus energy analyst Robert Bryce, to map how oil, natural gas...
Episode #11
The fastest way to spot a broken housing market is brutally simple: compare home prices to incomes. When that price-to-income ratio, often called the median multiple, shoots from a normal “3” to “11” or “12,” you are...
A half-century is long enough for a community to transform, but not long enough for the origin story to stay intact without receipts. We walk through one of the first comprehensive efforts to measure Iranian Americans...
The Democrats keep asking voters to choose them, but many people still can’t answer a basic question: what do Democrats stand for right now? We bring on public affairs consultant and UCLA lecturer David Gershwin and AEI...
Liberalism didn’t start as a comfortable status quo. It started as a revolt against feudal hierarchy and rigid orthodoxy, and it stayed alive by reinventing itself when capitalism and concentrated power threatened to...
A state can look rich on paper while ordinary life gets harder fast and the bill comes due. We sit down with Hephestion Bolaris of Class Unity and Hank Adler, an accounting professor and former Deloitte tax partner, to...
Episode #6
Entry-level hiring is getting squeezed, but the reasons aren’t as simple as “the economy is bad.” We sit down with David Brown, Americas CEO of Hays, and James Dusserre, assistant dean for placement and career services...
Episode #5
Religious belief is supposed to fade as societies get richer and more educated. So why do newer surveys show the opposite pattern in the United States, with college grads and post grads often *more* likely to attend...
California’s housing crisis isn’t a riddle; it’s a chain reaction. We trace it from land policy and restrictive growth boundaries to code complexity, construction costs, and the quiet social fallout inside families...
Episode #3
Populism gets blamed for everything from polarization to democratic decay—but what if the louder story is a search for voice and belonging? We sit down with sociologist Frank Furedi to unpack why so many voters are...
Episode #2
What if the internet that promised liberation ended up centralizing control over what we see, share, and believe? We sit down with Jake Siegel—journalist, former Army intelligence officer, and author of The Information...
Want a clear-eyed map of where AI is taking jobs, education, and leadership over the next five years? We dig past the headlines to examine why tech profits can soar while layoffs spread, why white-collar roles are...
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Senior Medicare Product Specialist/Marketing Manager, Gem Marketing Solutions
Bloomberg’s Global Business Columnist, Bloomberg Opinion
professor of economics and Canada Research Chair in Energy Economics and Policy, Australian Institute of Traffic Planning and Management
Executive Director of MCC Brussels, University of Kent
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