Our Neo-Feudal Future

By Joel Kotkin America has only a limited feudal past, the plantation aristocracy of the antebellum South and the enormous class chasms of the Gilded Age being pretty much our only examples. Yet today—after decades of social mobility, a digital revolution that was supposed to empower individuals everywhere, […]

Joe Manchin for President

By Ryan Grim, The Intercept Lyndon B. Johnson, a giant of American politics, recognized a political opportunity and reoriented. Manchin would rather be the man riding the bomb to the ground. When Lyndon B. Johnson took over leadership of the Senate Democratic caucus in the early 1950s, anybody […]

The delusion of a post-Trump GOP

By Joel Mathis, The Week Sen. Susan Collins is nothing if not an optimist. A year after former President Donald Trump left the White House, the Maine Republican apparently still believes better times are ahead for her party — a moment when Trump’s rabble-rousing, anti-democratic influence will recede, […]

COVID is another forever war

By Samuel Goldman The Week There’s no exit strategy when the enemy is already among us. It’s déjà vu all over again. First, the weeks of official denial. Then bad news becomes impossible to ignore, prompting a shift in policy. The new policy offers an increase in resources […]

Boomers, Mexicans, and Trucking

By Peter Zeihan on December 22, 2021 Demographics are at the core of what we do here at Zeihan on Geopolitics. More than just a count of population, demographic data–often expressed as a pyramid-shaped graph–can deliver a wealth of information about a society. Is the country in question rapidly […]

Millenniyule 2021: Praise of Folly

WATCH HERE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh9mnprK8vtFuHkHyl_ffCw/ https://millenniyule.comBertrand Russell The Scientific Outlook: https://archive.org/details/scientificoutloo030217mbp/page/n9/mode/2up The Impact of Science on Society: https://archive.org/details/TheImpactOfScienceOnSociety-B.RussellHG Wells The Open Conspiracy: https://archive.org/details/the-open-conspiracy-h.-g.-wells The New World Order: https://archive.org/details/pdfy-hwevgNwolPH1oos6C S Lewis: The Abolition of Man: https://archive.org/details/TheAbolitionOfMan_229 That Hideous Strength: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207839Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation: https://archive.org/details/simulacra-and-simulation-1995-university-of-michigan-pressJacques Ellul, On Technique: https://archive.org/details/JacquesEllulTheTechnologicalSocietyIvan Illich, The […]

Rage of the left-wing machine

By ALEX THOMPSON , TINA SFONDELES and MAX TANI Politico Progressives were frustrated with President JOE BIDEN even before Sen. JOE MANCHIN (D-W.V.) knifed the Build Back Better act on live television Sunday. Voting rights legislation appears to be going nowhere. Student loan collection is expected to re-start […]