We’re Watching an Economy Die

How America’s Stunning Lack of a Coronavirus Response is Producing Economic Disaster Unseen in Modern History Apr 16, 2020 Member-only Save See that chart above? It says that another 5 million or so people filed for unemployment last week. That’s 22 million inone month. How much is that, in real terms? The US labour force … Read more

Did Coronavirus Break Society?

Or Can Coronavirus Begin to Reverse the Anger, Hate, and Division of the Last Decade? Apr 13, 2020 Member-only Save For the last month or so, we’ve been living, suddenly, in a different world. Suddenly, the animals took over the parks and the fish returned to the canals and streams. You and I? Locked down, … Read more

America is Committing Economic Suicide

The American Economy Is About to Die From Coronavirus — Because Nobody Saved It See that chart above? You are watching an economy begin to die.That, my friends, is what economic devastation looks like. It says that unemployment claims skyrocketed to7 millionlast week. That’s a number so high, so fast, that there’s no…

The Age of Infantilization

How the Left and Right are Screaming at Each Other Like Angry Toddlers, and the Rest of us are Trapped in the Middle There are many of us, I think, who look around today’s sociopolitical landscape — the ruinous state of our societies, politics, culture — and hold our heads in disbelief. Everywhere you look, … Read more

Why Fascists Never Think They’re Fascists — but Victims and Heroes

The Psychology of Neo Fascism Feb 2, 2020 Member-only Save ‚ÄúI‚Äôm not a fascist!They‚Äôrethe real fascists!! The students, the leftists, the Jews, the Muslims, the Mexicans, the anti-fascists. They are putting me in danger! They, the ones who won‚Äôt listen to me! The ones who are taking awaymyrights! My rights matter most of all! I … Read more

It Was the Worst Decade for the Left Since the 1930s. How Come Nobody Much Noticed — or Cares?

The Decade the Left Destroyed Itself One of the ways the teens — this bruising, miserable decade now drawing to a troubled close — will be remembered is this: the left was shattered and destroyed across the globe.Extremist right wing parties, on a spectrum from hypernationalist to protofascist, arose in every corner of the globe, … Read more

Why the Working Class is Abandoning the Left

How a Whole Side of Politics Betrayed and Abandoned its Base — Who Reacted by Making a Suicide Pact with Demagogues There’s been a trend at work in the world this year that history will regard as strange, troubling, and gruesome. The working class is being captured by the hard right. It’s true across the … Read more

This is How a Society Dies

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…