Category: American Decline

An American split

By John Kaluza In response to Mr. Staveley’s commentary, I am closing in on 70 years old and I can honestly say, like you do, that the thinking of many people in this country is incomprehensible to me. I just don’t understand how so many Americans can support […]

Breakup of the USA

CT2 In the world of scenario planning, the fact that something is unthinkable should not prevent us from considering it. The breakup of the Soviet Union was unthinkable almost until the day it happened. At the same time, of course, not every impossible thing will happen. Among the […]

The Boogaloo Tipping Point

The Atlantic is a new clerisy publication so any of its coverage of the “far-right” (or “extremists” generally) has to be taken with a grain of salt. But what seems to be the most interesting about the “boogaloo” movement is its diversity, which apparently includes libertarians, Communists, white […]

How US Hegemony Ends

On this episode Mark talks with Alex Cooley and Dan Nexon, authors of ‘Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order.’ Scholars and pundits have been predicting the US’s decline as the singular world power since at least the 1970s. Now, with President Trump’s isolationist, nativist […]