How America Made Itself Vulnerable to Collapse

How to Topple the House of Prosperity There’s a question that’s been on my mind — and maybe on yours. Why did America make it so easy for itself to collapse? Let me explain what I mean. American collapse has many causes. One cause is that it America grew socially destabilized, ruptured, fractured. It was … Read more

Why Capitalism is Obsolete

And Why Humanity’s Future Depends on What’s Next Imagine that I told you you had to build a machine with somewhere between a million and ten million parts, each one made to sub-millimeter precise specifications. Imagine I told you you’d have to build the organization of thousands of people to put it together. Imagine I … Read more

The Age of the Imbecile

The World is Turning Catastrophically Stupid. Here’s How Not to Join It. I’d bet, these days, shortly after reading the headlines, you’ve thought, shaking your head and muttering, something like: “Jesus. We live in an age of impossibly catastrophic stupid.” You’re not wrong. About a decade or so ago, hot on the heels of the … Read more

What Happens After Capitalism?

A New Synthesis I was talking to someone recently and in the middle of a perfectly civilized conversation about our impending doom they blurted out: “but you’re a socialist!” Whoa. I’m not any of these things, capitalist, socialist, atheist, any-ist. I believe in three things only, disco, chocolate, and true love, and they’re all the … Read more

How Liberals Destroyed Liberalism

The Gun, the Blindfold, and the Gag Pity the poor liberal. It’s become fashionable to point out that liberalism is collapsing — and yet, the question is, why? Just this morning, I read a tweet from an anonymous superstar pundit that said: “No!!! This wave of fascism isn’t about economics! It’s about culture!” This little … Read more

Why the World is Giving Up on Freedom

Or, Why Neoliberalism is Ending in Authoritarianism Rising Around the Globe Again You might be surprised, and a little disheartened, as I am, to look around the world in the early 21st century, and see it, well, giving up on freedom. There is America, lapsing into comic-book authoritarianism. There, China has a newly forged lifelong … Read more