Editorial Team

How the Perverse Idea that Selfishness, Cruelty, and Greed are Good Fuelled Collapse Aug 24, 2018 Member-only Save Here‚Äôs a tiny observation: America developed a moral philosophy that‚Äôs utterly unique in the world, and in history. One that‚Äôs solely its own, not used anywhere else ‚Äî and is fatally, weird, gruesome, and backwards, when you … Read more

Why Are the Fiercest Defenders of Capitalism Those Who’ll Never Be Capitalists? When I was a little boy — maybe six — I made a friend named Rick. An all-American golden boy, as athletic as he was whip-smart, all tousled blond hair and piercing blue eyes, and we met in an all-American way, too — … Read more

Why Capitalism Isn’t the First World Anymore Here’s a tiny question: do you think America is still a first-world country? Life expectancy in Chile’s higher. Kids in Pakistan, Nigeria, and Thailand don’t get massacred at school. Even Rwanda’s building a public healthcare system. So if “first-world” means “well-off”, then something’s gone badly wrong.

What America Still Doesn’t Understand About 21st Century Prosperity Here’s a funny, strange, inconvenient truth. If you want more capitalism, you should also want more socialism. Yes, really. I’ll prove it, in just a second.

What Happens When to a World When There’s Nothing to Run Towards? Here’s a tiny question. Do you remember when we imagined the future as better? How do you think about the future now? If I had to put money on it, I’d bet that you don’t imagine it quite that way anymore. If you … Read more

How Liberalism Became the One Thing it Was Created to Destroy I want to tell you the sad, funny, and strange story of how liberalism destroyed itself. Assuming you’ve looked around the globe lately, the fascists and extremists are winning altogether too easily. It goes like this. Liberalism, once a great and noble philosophy, split … Read more

How Hidden Hyperinflation Left Americans Broke, and What to do About It In this essay, I’m going to challenge (wait, I mean smash) the funny, foolish, backwards myth that “socialism is too expensive!!” — which no one should believe.

How Downwardly Mobile Americans are Being Radicalized into Betraying America Check out the jaw-dropping picture above — which by now you might have seen. Now think about Senators travelling constantly to Moscow for reasons unknown. Then consider a President who’s more loyal to Russian self-interest than he is to any vaguely American ideal.

How American Elites Ruined Their Society in a Way the World Hasn’t Seen Since Weimar Germany Take a good, hard look at the chart above. I don’t usually write essays about charts—but this one’s different. It’s American collapse in four lines. It says that American elites mismanaged their economy so badly, so…

Capitalism is a Social Construction. But What Does That Really Mean? Here’s a tiny suggestion. Capitalism is a social construction. Sorry, I don’t mean that the way your college courses did. I mean it like this: capitalism has always been a product of socialism (not just shaped by social mores and attitudes, which is true, … Read more