I've written about the importance of a decent human community (here, most comprehensively). I've hosted hundreds of visitors here, and I've spoken and written often about this rock-pile in the desert as an example. In this essay, I provide a…
Paul Craig Roberts has noticed collapse is at hand. And small wonder, now that fear is starting to paralyze the entire global financial system and stock markets are more fragile than before the Lehman event of 2008, which nearly terminated…
by Nathan Dunn It is hard to know where to begin, as there have been so many fits, stops, and starts. In keeping with the tradition here, I will offer several biographical notes. My first summer after high school was…
Early in my life, I couldn't help believing there was a little more to life somewhere else. Of course, I was seeking something grander in the usual, industrial sense. A few decades later, I finally recognize that there is a…
by Eric Geiermann I graduated from Michigan State University in 1990 with a major in Psychology. I was the first in a working class family to make that move. The death of Detroit was well under way when I graduated…
by John D. Gunther Since I was a small child, I have always known that there is a better way for us to live. What I didn't know at that age was exactly what that meant. Fast forward to now,…
The following lengthy quote is from a learned Greek scholar: So revolutions broke out in city after city, and in places where the revolutions occured late the knowledge of what had happened previously in other places caused still new extravagances…