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Forecast 2025 — Taking Out the Trash
"A core reflex in these decades of postmodern insanity was constant rejection of things we thought we knew in favor of New, Improved Beliefs packaged…
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James Howard Kunstler
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Forecast 2024: Do You Dare Even Look?
“I’ve also lost patience with the Sharia of the political left taking over the entire system.” — David Collum
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Forecast 2023: Get Out of the Way if You Can’t Lend a Hand
“The powerful are panicking, and so they should.
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James Howard Kunstler
Forecast 2022: Dumpster Fire Blazing on the Frontier of a Dark Age
If 2021 was the year of maximum corruption, political decadence, and mind-fuckery in US history, 2022 is looking like a convulsive snap-back to the…
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James Howard Kunstler
Forecast 2021: Chinese Fire Drills with a side of French Fries (Jacobin-style) and Russian Dressing
As I write, the presidential election is still not resolved, with dramatic events potentially unfolding in the first days of the New Year.
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James Howard Kunstler
Forecast 2020: Whirlin’ and Swirlin’
The big question for the year 2020 is simple: can America get its mind right?
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James Howard Kunstler
Forecast 2019: Ding Ding ! Margin Call USA
Welcome to the American hall of mirrors… and mind the broken glass all over the floor.
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James Howard Kunstler
Forecast 2018: What Could Go Wrong?
If you take your cues from Consensus Trance Central — the cable news networks, The New York Times, WashPost, and HuffPo — Trump is all that ails this…
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Forecast 2017: The Wheels Finally Come Off
“There is no other endeavor in which men and women of enormous intellectual power have shown total disregard for higher-order reasoning than monetary…
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James Howard Kunstler
Forecast 2016 : Pretend to the Bitter End
There’s really one supreme element of this story that you must keep in view at all times: a society (i.e.
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James Howard Kunstler
Forecast 2015: Life in the Breakdown Lane
“Don’t look back — something might be gaining on you,” Satchel Paige famously warned.
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Forecast 2014: Burning Down the House
Many of us in the Long Emergency crowd and like-minded brother-and-sisterhoods remain perplexed by the amazing stasis in our national life, despite the…
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