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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
Jun
12

If This is the Best Liberalism Can Do, It’s Not Good Enough, Plus, “The Economy,” An Age of Chaos, and How Paradigms Fail

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9 min read
Jun
11

Europe’s Elections, its Golden Age, Socioeconomic Miracles, and How They End

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8 min read
Jun
05

Is American Democracy Going to Die? Or, Welcome to the Age of Zombie Democracy

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8 min read
Jun
01

Trump’s Conviction, American Collapse, Plus, the Election and What People Want From It

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7 min read
May
29

The Lifecession, or Why People Think This is the Worst Economy Ever

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10 min read
May
28

(The Chart That Proves) Why Trump is Winning, How Societies Collapse, and Biden’s Biggest Mistake

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9 min read
May
26

The Election, The Polls, Biden Sinking, Why the Dems “Don’t Believe It,” or How to Make a Democracy Self-Destruct

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10 min read
May
24

Everyone Thinks Liberalism Hates Them, That’s Why Biden’s Losing and Democracy’s Dying, Plus, What Stopped the Future From Being Created

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14 min read