The modern campus experience is sociologically fraught, but it just might have the keys to rebuilding social capital Robert Stark Apr 18, 2023 Higher education is hyper competitive, with acceptance rates at top universities much lower than they were in the past, which is also an economically exploitative, […]
By Michael Lind, Tablet What if those in authority declared an apocalypse—but the wrong one? The trans-Atlantic establishment preaches that the most important problem facing the world today is global warming, but meanwhile the fertility growth rate in the U.S. and Europe has collapsed. From a radical environmentalist […]
by Peter Zeihan on April 18, 2023 That pan-shaped state above Texas offers much more than just tornados and sports. The Sooner State has done most of the heavy lifting in establishing itself as an agricultural, precision manufacturing, and energy state. All that to say, Oklahoma is not […]
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 Andrew Aoyama Deputy managing editor The people who live and work in Appalachian coal country tend to be viewed as climate-change villains rather than victims. But the deadly floods that swept a pocket of eastern Kentucky last summer challenge common preconceptions about which Americans […]
Ex-CEO Charlie Javice, 31, is just the latest from the magazine’s list to see criminal charges Arwa Mahdawi Fri 7 Apr 2023 01.00 EDT Last modified on Mon 10 Apr 2023 12.26 EDT Just a few years ago, Charlie Javice was riding high. In 2019 the tech CEO […]
by Peter Zeihan on April 11, 2023 The advanced developing world is about to have its moment. We’re talking about India, Turkey, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Brazil. These countries were a little late to the global scene, but now it’s their time to shine, hopefully… The path to globalization […]
By Joel Kotkin “Town and country must be married and out of this joyous union will spring a new hope, a new life, a new civilization.” — Ebenezer Howard, 1898” All cities must evolve over time. Those that fail to do so end up, at best, like Venice, […]
By Joel Kotkin The upcoming ruling by the US Supreme Court on racial preferences is certain to ignite yet another divisive debate about whether or not a person’s ethnic heritage should determine their treatment by the state and major institutions. After steady progress towards “race-blind” governance, the notion […]
“Demography makes history. The fundamental law in history is numbers. And the numbers are in the process of tipping France into another world,” warned Zemmour in his latest interview March 27, 2023 editor: REMIX NEWS author: John Cody In a new interview, French politician and author Éric Zemmour warned that […]
(Xinhua) 13:04, March 28, 2023 BEIJING, March 28 (Xinhua) — China on Tuesday issued “The Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2022.” Following is the full text of the report: The Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2022 The State […]
The media is now admitting that IQ scores are in decline but spinning the phenomenon as no big deal. Professor Edward Dutton joins me to discuss intelligence, falling IQ scores, and what it all means for our civilization.
by Peter Zeihan on March 29, 2023 As Japan prepares for the G7 Summit, the topic on everyone’s mind is the Ukraine War. By providing aid to the Ukrainians, the Japanese have given us a glimpse into how far the country has come and how they strategically positioned […]
by Peter Zeihan on March 27, 2023 We’re starting the day off with a bit of optimism thanks to the demographic outlook of Southeast Asia. This region of the world is primed and ready to boom; all it needs is a bit of money and tech to get […]
View this email in your browser The Jordan Harbinger Show by Peter Zeihan on March 22, 2023 I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Jordan Harbinger on “The Jordan Harbinger Show” (for the loyal followers, you’ll know this is my second appearance). We discussed how the […]
What does population decline mean for China? Scott Rozelle on a globally invisible issue shaping the lives of millions of the country’s rural kids. Sean Nangle / The Signal China’s worldwide competition with the United States regularly captivates global attention—as with Washington recently shooting down a Chinese spy balloon, ongoing […]
by Peter Zeihan on March 13, 2023 To my fellow nerds reading along…this is your trigger warning…today we’re talking about BAD DATA. Sorry for the dramatics, but I’m sure many of you share my frustration when you can’t find the correct numbers for that forecast you’re working on […]
March 3, 2023 ~ ABN Last October, China’s top officials convened the once-every-five-year congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to determine the leadership and political trajectory of the country for the next half decade. Xi Jinping secured a precedent-breaking third term as paramount leader of the Party, […]
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February 18, 2023 TODAY IN HISTORY Mark Twain publishes “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” 1885 TOP NEWS California Exodus Continues: 700,000 More Left Than Moved in Over 2 Years, US Census Shows Share* READ MORE US News Trump to Visit Ohio Train […]
Robert Stark 3 hr ago While the broke genius archetype may be a meme, the topic of the intelligent yet poor is especially relevant to how we view issues of wealth, privilege, status, and societal incentive structures. A stereotypical demographic profile of the smart but poor, might be […]
Batya Ungar-Sargon makes the case for why many in the working class are leaving the Democratic Party for the GOP.
Noah Carl Feb 9 Since Russia’s invasion began, there’s been no shortage of images of the physical destruction it has wrought: collapsed bridges, crumbling churches, street after street of burnt out buildings. The World Bank estimates that reconstruction costs may reach $349 billion. And that figure was published […]
Jose Nino’s Digest Here are my most recent articles for you Tennessee Witnesses Population Growth As More People Flee Blue States There’s a massive exodus from blue states across America. According to a report by Chase Smith of The Epoch Times, Tennessee’s population reached 7 million residents in […]
by Peter Zeihan on January 26, 2023 It’s time we talk about a region that has long held the title of “worst demographics”…The Orthodox Christian countries. The big dog of the region – Russia – has entered a point of no return for its demographic situation. Ukrainians are even worse off. Regardless […]
— Katy Schneider, features editor, New York We were fairly stunned to find out that just a few miles from Flushing, there exists a co-op complex called Electchester that is overrun with electricians. We had to know more: How did there come to be such a place? The […]
by Peter Zeihan on January 18, 2023 The latest batch of Chinese demographic data has set off ALL the alarm bells, and for good reason. With official figures putting the average birth rate at slightly over one birth per woman and the population peaking last year, the alarm bells […]
by Peter Zeihan on January 5, 2023 Let’s continue our demographic discussions with Europe. It would be foolish to lump all of Europe together, but we can place most of these countries into 1 of 4 categories. This classification system ranges from “they’ll be alright” to “it was nice […]
By Keith Preston December 29, 2022 While I agree that American/Atlanticist/unipolar/whatever hegemony is receding, I don’t think we will return to the bipolar world of the Cold War. Instead, we are moving toward a multipolar order like in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, where there were multiple great […]
by Peter Zeihan on December 29, 2022You all know the Boomers, you all know the Millennials, but have a care for GenX. Their successes, their failures, their (lack of) numbers, will determine the fate of the United States and New Zealand until nearly 2040. A bit macabre? Certainly. But […]
by Peter Zeihan on December 28, 2022 For decades, the Canadian system has been the world’s most friendly to would-be immigrants. But just because the model has worked does not mean it will always work. Rising trends in national disintegration in the late globalization age haven’t so much swamped […]
by Peter Zeihan on December 27, 2022 At its core, my work weaves together the heavy trends of geopolitics and demographics into a tapestry that can be viewed from any number of directions. Most folks in spaces political, economic or strategic tend to gloss over demography. Much to their […]
Thoughts on a cultural and demographic revolution Andrew Sullivan 8 hr ago “Waiting Hay” (from an Instagram gallery of paintings by Michael Sullivan) I took the Thanksgiving break as a chance to get back to Blighty for ten days to see my family, and old and new friends. […]
An analysis of the discourse surrounding Britain’s newly released data on demographics. Morgoth 13 hr ago This week the data on ethnicity from the 2021 census was finally released. Laura Towler from Patriotic Alternative condensed the data thus: These figures are for England and Wales. Not to be […]
Robert Stark 13 hr ago LA Mayoral Vote Source LA Times Karen Bass defeated Rick Caruso, by a margin of 53.1% to 46.9%, to become LA’s next mayor. Looking at the election results map, Bass’ strongholds were “gentrifying” Hipster areas like Highland Park and Echo Park, and historically […]
Rolo Slavskiy 15 hr ago I arrived in Russia a little less than a decade ago and while living there I travelled extensively and talked to everyone that was willing to talk to me. At the time, I was an optimist and genuinely enjoyed meeting new people, hearing […]
Rolo Slavskiy Sep 7 The post-industrialized world is a depopulated wasteland. Within it lies a city. Outside the boundary walls, the blight and the cursed villages. Inside the walls, the cursed city. Stretching from ____ . An unbroken concrete landscape. ___ million people living in the ruin of […]
PharmaHeretic Over the years, on a previous blog, I wrote many articles about how the West has no worthwhile future. While some might see this as wishful thinking, my analysis was based on multiple converging trends from very low fertility rates and technological stagnation to deindustrialization and concurrent […]
“There are new victims all the time. Immigration is not questioned, and neither is the justice system.” November 17, 2022 editor: REMIX NEWS author: Olivier Bault Renowned French author Laurent Obertone presents a bleak future of a France in conflict in his books, but he says that such […]
The Signal Is the U.S. Republican Party becoming a “multi-racial, working-class” coalition? Matt Grossmann assesses the evidence for a major political realignment. Jezael Melgoza (Originally published 2022 | 05.26) Hispanic voters in America are “literally cascading into the Republican Party,” Donald Trump told Fox News earlier this year. […]
By Robert Stark There is more nuance to the image of the Bay Area as a blue monolith. In the 2020 Democratic primary election, affluent suburban White communities were divided between Joe Biden and Michael Bloomberg, and Asian areas were divided between Bernie Sanders, Bloomberg, and Biden. Sanders’ […]
Eric Kaufmann Summary America’s elite university students are more demographically diverse than the general population, but more politically divided along lines of race, gender, sexuality, and religion. Minority and female students are far more liberal on campus than in the general population, whereas straight white Christian men are […]
The developed world is making a fatal mistake in building flawed social and economic systems which require an ever-expanding population to function. By John Conlin September 17, 2022 In nature, systems operate in dynamic equilibrium. There is a flow and balance, a yin and yang to all parts. […]
I have written about many topics here at Attack the System over the past 22 years, with a focus on outlining a predictive narrative of how world geopolitics and domestic US politics would likely evolve in the future. The core emphasis has been to develop a theoretical framework […]
By John Waters Mass migration is not, as it seems, an organic emanation of humanity from poor countries, but a calculated project to repopulate the territory of the declining West, with racism its chief instrument. Though, in his remarkable book, The Scramble for Europe, Stephen Smith tends to soft-focus […]
by Peter Zeihan on June 22, 2022 The demographic pyramids below are from my new book, The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Civilization. I discuss global demographic trends, the impacts of societal aging and the future of, well, everything. What we have here […]
by Peter Zeihan on June 16, 2022 The Boomers are the largest generation the world has ever seen. And they’re getting ready to enter retirement en masse. This is going to have incredible impacts on global labor, capital and development. If you enjoy this video, I cover the […]
By Natalie Winters The National Pulse A new media network targeting Hispanics in the United States launched after raising $80 million from investors led by a George Soros-linked firm. The new media operation – the Latino Media Network – acquired 18 Hispanic radio stations across 10 markets from TelevisaUnivision […]
By Peter Zeihan on June 3, 2022 My fourth book, The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization is scheduled for release on June 14. In coming weeks we will be sharing graphics and excerpts, along with info on how to preorder. Demography forms one […]
By Rhodes Cook, Center for Politics KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — More than 20% of the nation’s counties gave 80% or more of its 2-party presidential votes to either Donald Trump or Joe Biden. — Trump won the vast majority of these counties, but because Biden’s blowout […]
Since things are going so well in Ukraine, the US must have at least one more little war going. After all, one day without war is akin to dishonor. Give the guy credit for having foresight & looking ahead. And this should be a surprise to no one, […]
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