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Apr
26
Why This is an Age of Stagflation, and How it’s Destabilizing the World—Plus, The Election and the Economy
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11 min read
Apr
25
(Why) Our Civilization is Losing the Will to Live, or Love and Hate and Life and Death in the 21st Century
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10 min read
Apr
23
Will We Be the Next Civilization to Lose Democracy? Plus, Trump’s Trial, Its Meaning, Violence and Agency, and The Allure of Fascism
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11 min read
Apr
23
The Rise of Omnistress, Plus, Why Gen Z’s So Unhappy, And Everyone Else Is, Too
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8 min read
Apr
21
Weekly Open Thread
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1 min read
Apr
19
Extinction Age Capitalism, How It Defines This Age, How We’re All Working For It Now, And Why You Shouldn’t Read This Post
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11 min read
Apr
17
What Would the Trump Economy Really Be Like, How to Understand a World Melting Down, and…an Apology
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10 min read
Apr
16
The Grandmas Who Took on Climate Change, Why Our Civilization’s Paralyzed, and the Myth of the Boy Genius
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8 min read
Apr
16
Trump’s History-Making Trial, What Happens When Things Suck and Nobody’s Happy, Plus, Is a Better Economy Worth…Giving Up On Democracy?
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9 min read
Apr
14
Weekly Open Thread!
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1 min read