Learning From Failure: A Modest Introduction | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerAug. 24, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- The other day, one of the readers over at the other blog (Well of Galabes) asked a question as sensible as it is timely: why do so many sane peop ...

Dark Dynamics | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Aug. 22, 2016 What the world is witnessing, without actually paying much attention, is the death of our debt-based economy -- that is, b ...

Retrotopia: Dinner, Drinks, and Hard Questions | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerAug. 17, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- This is the 22nd installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Ou ...

Burning Down the House | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Aug. 15, 2016 There’s a new feature to the Anything-Goes-and-Nothing-Matters economy: Nothing-Adds-Up. The magicians who pretend to mea ...

ZZZZZZZZZZZ…. | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Aug. 8, 2016 Wake the fuck up! Today we turn from the sordid dumbshow of Election 2016 to the parlous mysteries of finance and economics ...

Retrotopia: Unnoticed Resources | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerAug. 3, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- This is the 21st installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Our ...

Let the Games Begin! | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Aug. 1, 2016 Hot air balloons may be crashing in Texas, but in Philadelphia last week sainted Hillary, draped in spotless white privilege robes, floated thro ...

Climate Change Activism: A Post-Mortem | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerJuly 27, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- As I write these words, much of North America is sweltering under near-tropical heat and humidity. Parts of the Middle East have set all-time hig ...

Retrotopia: The Far Off Sound of Guns | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerJuly 20, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- This is the 20th installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Ou ...

Scientific Education as a Cause of Political Stupidity | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerJuly 13, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- While we’re discussing education, the theme of the current series of posts here on The Archdruid Report, it’s necessary to point out that there a ...

Lit and Sputtering | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust July 11, 2016 You can see where the trajectory of events is leading. The country will be distracted by racial strife this summer while the global banking sys ...