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.