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America and Britain are Textbook Examples of a New, Gruesome Phenomeon: Rich Nations Self-Destructing Into Poor Failed States When I ask my European friends to describe us — Americans, Brits, who I’ll call Anglo-Americans in this essay — they shake their heads gently. And over and over, three themes emerge. They say we’re a little…

Or, How Do You Live in a Fascist Society? There’s a simple fact that I don’t think Americans are reckoning with.That Americans are maybe even capable of reckoning with. It’s this. They’re living in what’s becoming a fascist society. And that fact raises the simple question: how do you live in a…

Americans Keep Asking How Their Society Became a Gruesome Dystopia. The Answer’s Simple. This is What a Capitalist Society is. Buckle up, friend. Here’s a smattering — just a little one — of headlines I woke up to.

The Age of Self-Inflicted Catastrophe’s Latest, Greatest Example Why — why on earth — would anyone want American style healthcare? You might be wondering why I even ask. After all, American healthcare is one of the modern world’s greatest and most epic…

The First Generation in America to Live in Poverty and Precarity Since the Great Depression I read a truly shocking statistic today. Boomers held 21% of American wealth at age 35. Gen X, 8%. Millennials? Just 3%. Think about that for a second.3%.They’re 25% of the total population. Maybe you’re not surprised…

Why Women are Changing a Dystopian World of Male Violence, While Men are Busy…Being Men There’s a strange and awesome thing happening in the world today. The most radical and transformative leaders are all…women. Or at least mostly women. The men, meanwhile are busy…being men. Grinning, foolish, violent, crude, and selfish. Trumps bellowing like toddlers…

When the Precarious Ally With the Powerful to Dominate the Powerless You’d be kidding yourself — like American pundits are — if you haven’t observed by now that America’s having something like a classic proto-fascist meltdown. Demagoguery, demonization, scapegoating, camps, “animals!,” “vermin!,”and parallel institutions — check, check, check.

How Did the World End Up in Such a Mess? Big Idiots Rose to the Heights of Power by Double Crossing Little Idiots One of the great unanswered questions of now is this: is the gruesome state of the world the result of a few big idiots, a lot of little idiots, or, perhaps, a … Read more

Catastrophic Climate Change is not a Problem for Fascists — It is a Solution Sometimes, when I write scary essays, I encourage you not to read them. This one’s different. It’s going to be brutal, scary, jarring, and alarming. But if you want my thoughts on the future, then read away.

Why The Global Climate Strike Matters, Or Why We Have to Get Much More Radical if We Want a Planet, a Future, and a Civilization In case you haven’t heard, today was the day there was a…global climate strike. And that…