It was only a few decades ago that Walmart entered the pantheon of American icons, joining motherhood, apple pie, and baseball on the highest tier…
Posts published by “James Howard Kunstler”
Spring is popping now with a ferocious energy that can only remind the sullenly sequestered masses that life is going on without them. Every living…
At least in wartime, the bars stay open. That’s how you know this is a different thing altogether from whatever else you’ve seen in your…
A February night in 1924, in a Manhattan concert hall owned by the Aeolian piano company… the wailing, warped, and flatted clarinet glissando that opens…
Do you know your place? In these days of hysterical Wokesterism, the question would surely provoke a riot of cowbell-clanging Antifa cadres, fainting spells in the…
On this solemn night a great stillness falls upon the land as the Leviathan of Washington is sent to its room to get its mind…
The Kavanaugh hearing underscored another eerie condition in contemporary USA life that offers clues about the combined social, economic, and political collapse that I call The…
I suppose many who think about the prospect of economic collapse imagine something like a Death Star implosion that simply obliterates the normal doings of…
Is it possible that we Americans only pretend not to notice the conditions that produce an epidemic of school shootings, or is the public just…
The New York Times worked itself into a fugue state this morning of the MLK holiday with a front-page orgy of reproving headlines: “[Charles] Blow: Trump…