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James Howard Kunstler

Taking liberty

Trump represents primitive maleness in all its lumbering vulgarity. He also represents disappointment with the poor job that the remaining…

Kunstler’s 2016: Pretend to the bitter end

The coming crackup will re-set the terms of civilized life to levels largely pre-techno-industrial. How far backward remains to be…

Questions and answers at year’s end

Maybe Providence is getting all this stupid shit out of the way so we can prepare for the banking and…

Bang, you’re dead: Kunstler on violence in our culture

The violence-saturated, pornified culture of young men driven crazy by failure, loneliness, grievance, and anger.

The spectacle so far

The 2016 election campaign is going to be a wild spectacle beyond the current imaginings of news media.

Twenty-three geniuses

Lose the shades, please. An army of New York Times journalists get the future way too bright.

Yesterday’s Tomorrowland

Two new movies obscure reality. Something real: the chance ISIS could move on Saudi Arabia.

Dead nation walking

Taxpayers subsidize highways and airports lavishly. God forbid they should do the same for passenger rail.

Change they don’t believe in

The American thinking classes are lost in raptures of techno-wishfulness.

All twerked out

What America needs is a war with itself, a war against lazy narcissism.