An Afternoon in Early Autumn | John Michael Greer

Future World Is On My Hand. From hdwallpapersrocks.com Oct. 12, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- I think it was the late science writer Stephen Jay Gould who coined the term “deep time” for the vast panora ...

The Future Of The City | James Howard Kunstler

Russian Hill neighborhood. San Francisco, USA. Author’s note: This essay originally appeared in The Baffler web-zine July 2016. The following was my original submission draft. It may contain some typ ...

Wounded Elephant | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Oct. 10, 2016 Last night’s debate raises some interesting questions, such as: would the Romans have elected Caligula if given the chanc ...

The Myth of the Anthropocene | John Michael Greer

"Welcome to the Anthropocene" YouTube Oct. 5, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- To explore the messy future that modern industrial society is making for itself, it’s necessary now and again to stray into so ...

Sizing Up the Endgame | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Oct. 3, 2016 All Hillary had to do last week was show up and stand at a podium for 90 minutes without swooning while Donald Trump barked and grunted his way ...

Slowly, Then All at Once | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Sept. 19, 2016 The chief tending is permanent worldwide economic contraction. Having hit the resource wall, especially of affordable oi ...

Signs of Desperation | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Sept. 12, 2016 Idiocy and mendacity are a bad combo in the affairs of nations, especially in elections. The present case in the USA displays both qualities t ...

Retrotopia: The Only Way Forward | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerSept. 7, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- This is the 24th (and next-to-last) installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of na ...

A Pleasant Lull | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Aug. 5, 2016 A pleasant lull lies over the land where today fewer people labor honestly -- and some labor gruelingly for too little -- ...

Retrotopia: The View from Ottawa Hills | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerAug. 31, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- This is the 23rd installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. On ...

Trending | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Aug. 29, 2016 Would fate permit it, the election of Hillary Clinton will be the supreme and perhaps terminal act in an Anything-Goes-And-Nothing-Matters soci ...