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Jul
04

The Worst 36 Hours For Democracy Since the 1930s, America on Dictatorship’s Brink, and Civilizational Risk

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8 min read
Jun
30

Global Political Trainwreck Open Thread

In Case You Missed It—Last Week's Articles: 1. The Omega Point, When Collapse Becomes Irreversible, Where Our
1 min read
Jun
29

That Wasn’t a Debate—That Was a Disgrace to Democracy, Plus, The Rituals and Spectacles of Social Self-Destruction, and How CNN Blew It

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9 min read
Jun
26

The Biden Trump Debate, the Scripts and Rituals of Democratic Collapse, and Why Our Public Arena is So Corroded

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8 min read
Jun
25

The Omega Point, When Collapse Becomes Irreversible, Where Our Civilization Is, and Rethinking How We Think About the Future

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9 min read
Jun
22

Are We Heading Towards a Far Right Planet? Its Economics, Politics, and Future, Plus, Vicious Cycles and Worst Case Scenarios

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8 min read
Jun
20

Can Biden Turn the Election Around? Plus, How I Feel About a World on Fire, and The Election’s Elephant in the Room

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9 min read
Jun
19

The Roads to Collapse, How Britain Destroyed Itself, France’s Mess, and America’s Future

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10 min read
Jun
17

The Year My Warnings Went Mainstream. Project 2025, Totalitarianism, and Why Establishments Need (But Hate) Visionaries

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11 min read
Jun
13

Does Trump Really Have a 2/3 Chance of Winning? Plus, Why Liberalism Feels Soulless Now, and The World’s Authoritarian Wave

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10 min read