The Pause That Refreshes | James Howard Kunstler

Idi Amin, president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979.James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust March 13, 2017 Let’s take a breather from more consequential money matters at hand midweek to consider the te ...

The Bag Holder and His Bag | James Howard Kunstler

Trumpeter Swan is a photograph by Brian Stevens. fineartamerica.com/featured/4-trumpeter-swan-brian-stevens.html James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust March 10, 2017 Can you see those swans comin ...

How Should We Then Live? | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerMarch 8, 2017 (Archdruid Report) -- The philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, which we’ve been discussing for several weeks now, isn’t usually approached from the angle by which I’ve b ...

Great Expectations (Not) | James Howard Kunstler

Image from 1984 film Red Dawn James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust March 6, 2017 Halloween’s coming super-early this year and it will be a shocking surprise to those currently busy looking for R ...

POTUS at SOTUS | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust March 3, 2017 President Trump garnered props from many quarters for not acting like a crazy person when he delivered his address to Con ...

The Magic Lantern Show | John Michael Greer

Carl G. Jung.March 1, 2017 (Archdruid Report) -- The philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, which we’ve been discussing for the last three weeks, was enormously influential in European intellectual circl ...

A Hole in the Head | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Feb. 27, 2017 We need a new civil war like we need a hole in the head. But that’s just it: America has a hole in its head. It’s the plac ...

A Muddle of Mind and Matter | John Michael Greer

Feb. 22, 2017 (Archdruid Report) -- The philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, which we’ve been discussing for the last two weeks, has a feature that reliably irritates most people when they encounter it ...

Fumbling Towards Collapse | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Feb. 20, 2017 In all the smoke and fog emitted by Trump and his adversaries, it must be hard to make out the actual issues dogging this ...

'That War You Ordered….' | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Feb. 17, 2017 The gaslighting* of the American public continues, with Gaslighter-in-Chief, The New York Times, whipping up a frenzy of R ...

The World as Will | John Michael Greer

Arthur SchopenhauerFeb. 15, 2017 (Archdruid Report) -- It's impressively easy to misunderstand the point made in last week’s post here on The Archdruid Report. To say that the world we experience is ...