"Western Civ[ilization]’s most infamous encounter with pandemic disease, so far, was the big first wave of the Black D…"

"I’ve said many times that we can expect delusional beliefs to rise in proportion to the economic hardships we experie…"

"The last 150 years have amounted to such a cavalcade of wonders and technological marvels that we’ve literally progra…"

"I don’t think the previous Dark Age that followed the collapse of Rome was quite the same as what we’re facing. That …"

"Paper money is bad enough, as France learned under the tutelage of the rascal John Law in the early 1700s. The nation…"

"Monetary inflation became a thing for the first time since Roman days — a much easier trick with printed paper bankno…"

"We're living in environments that are punishing us, the immersive ugliness of North American cities can be described …"

"Somehow I doubt that this Christmas will win the Bing Crosby star of approval. Rather, we see the financial markets b…"

"Peak [living] human population will… lag… peak [extraction of] oil and peak [extraction of other] mineral resources u…"

"The Industrial Revolution still cannot be considered an unqualified success, for all the comfort and convenience enjo…"