Much as many people-who-ought-to-know-better have been enjoying the disruptive antics of Donald Trump, surely other cohorts and coteries have endured dark nights of the soul…
Posts published by “James Howard Kunstler”
The lost story-line amid the food-fights and boasting contests that the “debates” have turned into is the destruction being wreaked on the two major parties…
There’s really one supreme element of this story that you must keep in view at all times: a society (i.e. an economy + a polity…
The just-released movie Spotlight is about a Boston Globe investigative reporting team circa 2001-02 that uncovered and documented a vast network of child sex abuse…
Sometimes societies just go batshit crazy. For ten years, 1966 to 1976, China slid into the chaotic maw of Mao Zedong’s “cultural revolution.” A youth…
Apropos of the recent Roseburg, Oregon, school massacre that left nine dead, President Obama said, “We’re going to have to come together and stop these…
I’ve alluded to being a registered Democrat now and again, a disclosure that makes some readers go feral with wrath. For years I could only…
Funny how, in the current national rapture of techno-narcissism, it is harder than ever to do something that for generations used to be as simple…
So, now we are threatening to start World War Three because Russia is trying to control the chaos in a failed state on its border…