Out On a Limb
There is one supreme and universal law of human relations in all its manifestations, social, political, economic, cultural: people create no end of mischief in the hours when they are not...
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KunstlerCast 232 — New Urbanism Special
New Urbanism Special. JHK chats with Andres Duany, a founding board member of the Congress for the New Urbanism about a new book (with a chapter by JHK) taking on the frauds and fakers at the Harvard...
View ArticleMy latest essay on Chris Martenson’s Peak Prosperity Website
My latest essay on Chris Martenson’s Peak Prosperity Website:WHY OUR CURRENT WAY OF LIVING HAS NO FUTURE Rampant malinvestment is creating scarcity of capital, energy & justice…
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Dmitry Orlov’s Excellent New Book
This essay is a review of Dmitry Orlov’s excellent new book, The Five Stages of Collapse. I can’t recommend the book highly enough. Orlov is one of the great literary stylists of his generation as...
View ArticleLighting the Fuse
At first glance, the growth of the super snooper state revealed this weekend — like one of those giant, hidden funguses that spreads for miles under the forests of upper Michigan — is a striking...
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JHK’s Essay on Harvard’s “Landscape Urbanism” Program
From the newly published book Landscape Urbanism and Its Discontents The Zombies of Gund Hall Go Forth to Eat America’s Brains by James Howard Kunstler Long about the late 1990s,...
View ArticleKunstlerCast 233 — A Conversation with Jim Quinn of The Burning Platform blog
#233 -- JHK chats with Jim Quinn, author of The Burning Platform dot com. Jim Quinn spent most of his career as a financial executive in the corporate world and now works on the business side of a...
View ArticlePaths of Folly
by James Howard Kunstler Societies periodically go insane. Fallacious memes sweep through a frightened and confused populace and bad things happen, bad choices get made. Two bad ideas in...
View ArticleKunstlerCast 234 — George Mobus and Biophysical Economics
#234 -- JHK jaws with George Mobus, systems scientist from the University of Washington, Tacoma. George is a member of the Biophysical Economics group -- not you mother's economists, shall we say. I'm...
View ArticleMid Year Digest
by James Howard Kunstler Wondering why the money world got its knickers in a twist last week? The answer is simple: the global economy is breaking apart and its constituent major players are doing...
View ArticleKunstlerCast 235 — Talking to petroleum geologist Jeffrey Brown
#235 -- JHK talks with Texas petroleum geologist Jeffrey Brown about the global oil export-import scene, the shale oil situation, and the public's misunderstanding of oil realities. Jeff originated the...
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JHK’s Newest Book Just Published
Click to buy paperback or e-book This is the third novella in my series about an eleven-year-old-boy in New York City of the early 1960s. I like to describe it as Children of “Mad Men.” The book is...
View ArticleWe Are the Pea
by James Howard Kunstler The political air lies thick and heavy upon us, like the subtropical wedge of atmospheric sludge that has bogged down the northeast USA for weeks of soupy gray days when...
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July 2013
Proposed Film and Media Study Facility by Lafayette College for downtown Easton, PA. This off-campus melange of incoherently orchestrated buildings is anchored at the corner by a blank-wall “Borg”...
View ArticleKunstlerCast 236 — Talking with Farming Activist Severine von Tscharner Fleming
#236 -- JHK talks with Severine von Tscharner Fleming, 30, a next ten agricultural activist, founder of Greenhorns and the National Young Farmers' Coalition. She also works with the Farm Hack...
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The Darkest Pool
My new book will make you laugh. Git one! Click. by James Howard Kunstler Like entropy, the diminishing returns of technology never sleep. The hubristic techno-narcissism of the day, as...
View ArticleKunstlerCast#237 — The Trophic Conundrum. Chatting with Brian Czech about the...
JHK talks with Brian Czech, founder of The Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy and author of the new book Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State...
View ArticleAmerican Anxiety
“The whole world was watching this case to see if everybody can get equal justice, not just certain people,” Benjamin Crump, the lawyer for Mr. Martin’s family, said on Sunday. …
View ArticleKunstlerCast 238 — JHK flying solo this week# 238 — JHK yaks solo this week...
# 238 -- JHK yaks solo this week following another surgical adventure -- neck bones this time -- with spotlight on the George Zimmerman verdict, the rumors of Larry Summers as next Federal Reserve...
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