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May 2025 | Eyesore
Museum of dirty socks?
May 7 • 
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There Will Be Boundaries
"Fascism is when Dad says 'no'" —Aimee Terese on "X"
May 5 • 
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What's Normal, Exactly?
“The job here is to enforce the federal civil rights laws, not woke ideology.” — Harmeet Dhillon, US Assistant AG for the Civil Rights Division
May 2 • 
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Now You Know
"Being mean or telling the truth is indistinguishable to far too many people." —Mike Thompson on X
Apr 28 • 
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Where Things Stand
"When the truth comes out, do not ask me how I knew. Ask yourself why you didn't." — "The Researcher" on X
Apr 25 • 
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Nov 4, 2024 • 
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Young Man Blues
Paperback – December 1, 2023
Nov 5, 2024 • 
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CrazyLand: Dispatches on the Great American Derangement of our Time
Paperback – November 21, 2023
Nov 5, 2024 • 
James Howard Kunstler
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Beauty and Catastrophe: The Human Imprint on Our Landscape
Hardcover – Large Print, June 8, 2023
Nov 4, 2024 • 
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Living in the Long Emergency: Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adapters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward
Hardcover, Kindle, Audiobook – March 3, 2020
Nov 4, 2024 • 
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Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle, Audiobook – July 9, 2013
Nov 4, 2024 • 
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En plein air paintings by JHK 2024
Jan 26 • 
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En plein air paintings by JHK 2023
Feb 18, 2024 • 
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En plein air paintings by JHK 2022
Mar 7, 2023 • 
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En plein air paintings by JHK 2021
Mar 12, 2022 • 
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May 2025 | Eyesore
Museum of dirty socks?
May 7 • 
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April 2025 | Eyesore
Peek-a-boo, cancer gonna find you !
Apr 6 • 
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March 2025 | Eyesore
"God is in the details." — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Mar 9 • 
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February 2025 | Eyesore
We pause in the usual cavalcade of horrors for a brief lesson. Concerning President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring new federal buildings to…
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January 2025 | Eyesore
Commentary on architectural blunders in monthly serial.
Jan 8 • 
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KunstlerCast 423 — Dr. Meryl Nass on the Echoes of Covid and Medicine's Nervous Breakdown
Meryl Nass is an internal medicine physician and was the first person in the world to prove that an epidemic (anthrax in Rhodesia) was due to biological…
May 3 • 
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KunstlerCast 422 — Jeffrey Tucker of the Brownstone Institute on The Immortal Despotism of the Covid Police State
Jeffrey Tucker is founder and president of Brownstone Institute and Senior Economics Columnist at Epoch Times.
Apr 26 • 
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KunstlerCast 421 — Dr. Chris Martenson on Reforming US Public Health under RFK; Tremors in Finance; and the First Hundred Days of Trump
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Apr 2 • 
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KunstlerCast 420 — Tom Luongo of Gold, Goats and Guns, Talkin' Europe, Russia, and America in a Dangerous Year
Tom Luongo is a Former Research Chemist, Amateur Dairy Goat Farmer, Anarcho-Libertarian and Obstreperous Austrian Economist who blogs and podcasts at…
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