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May
01

The Election, Echoes of 1968, and How History’s Mistakes Repeat Themselves

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9 min read
Apr
30

Why Democracy’s Side’s is Losing So Badly That We’re About to Lose Democracy, Why it Matters, And What to do About It

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9 min read
Apr
29

How Bad Will the Second Half of the 2020s Be? Or, Three Transformations at a Turning Point in Human History

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10 min read
Apr
28

Weekly Open Thread

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1 min read
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

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