KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy
James Howard Kunstler, author of The Geography of Nowhere, The Long Emergency, and World Made By Hand, takes on the converging catastrophes of the 21st century. Features a new guest each month. (Note: Episodes 1 - 214 featured conversations between Duncan Crary and JHK during the years 2008 through 2012 and focused on the topics of suburban sprawl, disposable architecture and the end of the cheap oil era.)
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KunstlerCast 389 —Yakking with John Michael Greer about the Spiritual Condition of our Floundering Country
11/30/2023
KunstlerCast 389 —Yakking with John Michael Greer about the Spiritual Condition of our Floundering Country
John Michael Greer blogs at , subtitle, Toward an Ecological Spirituality. JMG has been an astute observer of Western Civ’s arduous economic and cultural descent, and is the author of many books, both novels and non-fiction, including Green Wizardry, After Oil, The Wealth of Nature, and Not the Future We Ordered. Star’s Reach, is a novel set 400 years ahead in America’s neo-medieval future. The King in Orange, a meditation on the relationship between archetype psychology and the occult as acted out in politics and culture. Things are getting weird in America, wouldn’t you agree? Even a bit supernatural. We assess our country's spiritual condition as we turn the corner on a fateful year 2024. The KunstlerCast theme music is
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KunstlerCast 388 — Naomi Wolf on Medical Freedom and Facing the Beast
11/10/2023
KunstlerCast 388 — Naomi Wolf on Medical Freedom and Facing the Beast
Naomi Wolf’s new book is the just published . Naomi has become a field marshal in the battle for medical freedom, assembling a staff of over three-thousand researchers to analyze the Pfizer drug trial documents that the company wanted to keep secret for the next seventy-five years — but were forced to release under a court order. Naomi’s website, is an excellent source of info on the battle for medical freedom and women’s health. Her other recent books include the New York Times bestsellers Vagina, The End of America, and Give Me Liberty, in addition to the landmark bestseller The Beauty Myth. A former Rhodes Scholar, she completed a doctorate in English language and literature from the University of Oxford in 2015, was a research fellow at Barnard College and the University of Oxford, and taught rhetoric at the George Washington University and Victorian studies at Stony Brook University. Wolf lives in the Hudson River Valley. The KunstlerCast theme music is
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KunstlerCast 387 — Godfree Roberts on China Rising
10/27/2023
KunstlerCast 387 — Godfree Roberts on China Rising
Godfree Roberts is the author of Why China Leads The World: Talent at the Top, Data in the Middle, Democracy at the Bottom. Godfree Roberts contacted me and suggested I interview him about his book. I thought, ‘okay, why not.’ Well, I’ve never offered up an evaluation of a guest at the outset of the podcast, but I must tell you, I came to the conclusion as the conversation went on, that Mr. Roberts might be a troll, since he sounded increasingly like a paid publicist for the CCP. I may be wrong about that. But, for instance, his insistence that Mao’s cultural revolution of the 1960s was a mere education campaign and didn’t hurt anybody seemed like utter nonsense to me. You decide for yourselves. The KunstlerCast theme music is
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KunstlerCast 386 -- Chatting with the Substack Blogger "Eugyppius"
10/08/2023
KunstlerCast 386 -- Chatting with the Substack Blogger "Eugyppius"
"Eugyppius" is a former academic who blogs about the pandemic aftermath and the pathological politics of modern Germany. He spent much of his life abroad and over a decade in American universities as a grad student and a teacher. He writes in English on Substack. He is very careful about revealing more of his identity given the extreme censorship and cancellation action in his country these days You can find him at The KunstlerCast theme music is
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KunstlerCast 385 — America's Thought Disorders with Clinical Psychologist Lucas Klein
09/01/2023
KunstlerCast 385 — America's Thought Disorders with Clinical Psychologist Lucas Klein
Lucas A. Klein, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been in private practice for 14 years. He has been a criminal and civil forensic psychologist, and now runs Real Clear Podcast He grew up in upstate NY not far from Jim, moved to the west coast, and now spends an inordinate amount of time trying to understand why humanity is so irrational. You can find his show here: The KunstlerCast theme music is
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KunstlerCast 384 — Left-potism, the Vicious Tail of Left Politics, with Daniel Klein
08/19/2023
KunstlerCast 384 — Left-potism, the Vicious Tail of Left Politics, with Daniel Klein
Daniel Klein is professor of economics and JIN Chair at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he leads a program on Adam Smith. He is the author of Smithian Morals and Central Notions of Smithian Liberalism. I admired his widely-read 2023 essay “Misinformation Is a Word We Use to Shut You Up,” which has been posted by Brownstone Institute, Independent Institute, Zero Hedge, and other websites. The KunstlerCast theme music is r.
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KunstlerCast 383 --Truthophobia: How the Boomers Broke Journalism, with Graham Majin
08/12/2023
KunstlerCast 383 --Truthophobia: How the Boomers Broke Journalism, with Graham Majin
Graham Majin was a broadcast journalist for 20 years, 14 at BBC News. His inside knowledge gives him a unique insight into how journalists think and how news is produced. He teaches journalism at Bournemouth University on the sunny south coast of England. He has written about the concept of Journalistic Truth, about Donald Trump, Russiagate, fake news, misinformation and the history of journalism. Truthophobia: How the Boomers Broke Journalism is his first, full-length book. Find out more at Truthophobia.net The KunstlerCast theme music is .
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KunstlerCast 382 -- Lt. Col (Ret) Karen Kwiatkowski on American Interventionism
07/22/2023
KunstlerCast 382 -- Lt. Col (Ret) Karen Kwiatkowski on American Interventionism
Karen Kwiatkowski grew up in western North Carolina. She was commissioned in the U.S. Air Force in in 1983 and served tours in Alaska, Massachusetts, Spain, Italy and Fort Meade as a communications-electronics officer. She later served in political military analysis at the Pentagon, retiring after 20 years as a Lt Colonel. Since her retirement in 2003, she has spoken out against an interventionist foreign policy and written numerous essays and articles, most of which are available at lewrockwell.com. She has been featured in several documentaries including the award-winning, Why We Fight (2004). She was awarded the Sam Adams Award in 2018 and is a member of the Eisenhower Media Network. She holds advanced degrees from Harvard University, the University of Alaska and a Ph.D. from Catholic University in world politics. She and her husband of 41 years now raise cattle, sheep and horses in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.
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KunstlerCast 381 — Farmsteading in the Heartland with Becca and Jarrod
07/14/2023
KunstlerCast 381 — Farmsteading in the Heartland with Becca and Jarrod
Becca Dickens and Jarrod Yantis are owners of Regenerative Life Farm, located near Lake Shelbyville in rural, central Illinois. Their outfit is on 19 acres including a half-acre no-till, deep compost market garden and the rest is used for rotational grazing of 300 chickens and cattle. Their motto is "Regenerating ourselves, our soil and our community." They sell eggs and vegetables at farmer's markets and provide education on gardening and Food as Medicine. They believe farmsteading in this way offers them the best hope for a happy life and humanity the best hope for a future. They can be found at The KunstlerCast theme music is .
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KunstlerCast 380 - Post doom with Eco-theologian Michael Dowd
07/02/2023
KunstlerCast 380 - Post doom with Eco-theologian Michael Dowd
The Reverend Michael Dowd is a bestselling eco-theologian, TEDx speaker, and pro-science, pro-future advocate whose work has been featured in The New York Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Newsweek, Discover, and on television throughout the United States and Canada. His book, Thank God for Evolution, was endorsed by 6 Nobel Prize-winning scientists, noted skeptics, and religious leaders across the spectrum. Michael and his science writer, and evolutionary educator wife, Connie Barlow, have spoken to some 3,000 groups throughout North America since April 2002. His blogs and lectures are available at and .
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KunstlerCast 379 --A Conversion with John Klar, author of Small Farm Republic
06/17/2023
KunstlerCast 379 --A Conversion with John Klar, author of Small Farm Republic
John Klar is the author of just published by Chelsea Green. John is seventh-generation Vermonter who lives in Brookfield, where he raises grass-fed lamb and beef. Before that, he worked as an attorney. He’s also staged campaigns for governor and state senate. Supporting Vermont’s local farms and local food production was the cornerstone of his political career. These ideas were codified into his 2020 Vermont Farming Manifesto. He wrote a weekly column for the Newport Daily Express for about five years, then began writing for American Thinker, The Federalist, Human Events, American Spectator, Mother Earth News and True North Reports. The KunstlerCast theme music is .
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KunstlerCast 378 — Former Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas on How His State of Vermont Got So Woked Up
06/09/2023
KunstlerCast 378 — Former Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas on How His State of Vermont Got So Woked Up
James H Douglas served Vermont for more than 35 years as a legislator, Secretary of State, State Treasurer and Governor. He advanced groundbreaking health reforms that have made Vermont a national model. Douglas chaired the National Governors Association and President Obama appointed him co-chair of the Council of Governors. He now teaches at Middlebury College, his alma mater. I called him to talk about the extraordinary contagion of Wokery in his state, and on the college scene in particular. Some of what he had to say was surprising, you’ll see. The KunstlerCast theme music is .
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KunstlerCast 377 -- John Michael Greer on Magic and the Reenchantment of Daily Life
05/14/2023
KunstlerCast 377 -- John Michael Greer on Magic and the Reenchantment of Daily Life
#377 — John Michael Greer blogs at , subtitle, Toward an Ecological Spirituality. JMG has been an astute observer of Western Civ’s arduous economic and cultural descent, and is the author of many books, both novels and non-fiction, including Green Wizardry, After Oil, The Wealth of Nature, and Not the Future We Ordered. Star’s Reach, is a novel set 400 years ahead in America’s neo-medieval future, The King in Orange, a meditation on the relationship between archetype psychology and the occult as acted out in politics and culture. Things are getting weird in America, wouldn’t you agree? Even a bit supernatural. To help us navigate through this wilderness of the weird, JMG and I talk about magic and the re-enchantment of daily life in these turbulent times. The KunstlerCast theme music is .
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KunstlerCast 376 — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Is Running For President
05/02/2023
KunstlerCast 376 — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Is Running For President
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr is a candidate for president running for the Democratic Party nomination. He’s a long-time environmental lawyer, author of the book which has sold over a million copies — and still hasn’t made it to the New York Times bestseller list for some mysterious reason. He’s the Founder and chairman of the organization. His father, Robert F. Kennedy, Sr,.was Attorney General of the United States and US Senator from New York, and his Uncle, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president of the United States in 1960. I recorded Bobby on his cell phone and the sound quality isn’t the greatest. He’d had a rugged week after announcing his bid to run, and we were lucky to get him on the podcast. Next time, we’ll get him on a good mic. His campaign website is: The KunstlerCast theme music is .
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KunstlerCast 375 -- Neil Howe on How's the Fourth Turning Going So Far
04/24/2023
KunstlerCast 375 -- Neil Howe on How's the Fourth Turning Going So Far
Neil Howe is a renowned author and speaker on economic, demographic, and social change in America. He is the nation’s leading authority on social generations — who they are, what motivates them, and how they will shape America’s future. Howe is the originator of the term “Millennial Generation” and has written over a dozen books on generations and generational research, a field of research he single-handedly invented. His landmark 1997 book The Fourth Turning (co-authored with the late William Strauss), has become an indispensable lens for viewing world political history. Neil’s new book, The Fourth Turning is Here, will be out this summer. The KunstlerCast theme music is .
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KunstlerCast 374 -- Michael Rectenwald on Woke Totalitarianism
04/11/2023
KunstlerCast 374 -- Michael Rectenwald on Woke Totalitarianism
Dr. Michael Rectenwald is the author of twelve books, including (Jan. 2023), (Dec. 2020); (May 2020); (Sept. 2019); (an academic’s memoir, 2018) A former Marxist, Professor Rectenwald is a champion of liberty and opposes all forms of totalitarianism and political authoritarianism, including socialism-communism, “social justice,” fascism, political correctness, and “woke” ideology. In 2016, he was famously subject to a Woke witch-hunt at NYU and, after a long struggle, left the University. He writes for many journals, newspapers and websites and does guest spots on political TV shows, including Tucker Carlson, Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham, Larry Elder. Follow him on Twitter . And his website: The KunstlerCast theme music is .
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KunstlerCast 373 — Jeffrey Tucker of the Brownstone Institute on the Covid Bamboozlement of Donald Trump, and Other Developing Matters
03/23/2023
KunstlerCast 373 — Jeffrey Tucker of the Brownstone Institute on the Covid Bamboozlement of Donald Trump, and Other Developing Matters
Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently . He is also a columnist at Forbes, founder of the Atlanta Bitcoin Embassy, and Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Austrian Economics Center in Vienna, Austria. He is the editor of The Best of Mises [economist Ludwig von Mises]. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. The KunstlerCast theme music is .
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KunstlerCast 372 — — A Conversation with Dr. David E. Martin — Prosecuting Covid Crimes
03/12/2023
KunstlerCast 372 — — A Conversation with Dr. David E. Martin — Prosecuting Covid Crimes
I’m doing another lap with Dr. David E Martin the Founder and Chairman of M·CAM Inc., the international leader in innovation finance, trade, and intangible asset finance. He’s been among a select band of international thought-leaders investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, in particular the relationships between US public health officials, the pharmaceutical companies, and a number of shadowy organizations behind the development of hugely profitable vaccines with a poor record of safety and viability. He was the founding CEO of Mosaic Technologies Inc., a company that developed and commercialized advanced computational linguistics technologies, dynamic data compression and encryption technologies, electrical field transmission technology, medical diagnostics, and stealth/anechoic technology, and launched many other ventures here and overseas. He’s currently working directly with sheriffs and district attorneys to bring criminal cases against the perpetrators of this historic fraud — including negligent homicide, premeditated murder, and reckless endangerment charges against doctors, hospital groups, managed care groups, et cetera, for the deaths of the vaccine-injected and deaths from treatment with the drug remdesivir. He has found 25 sheriffs and DAs willing to take prosecutions forward. Anyone seeking to inquire about adjudicating deaths of family members can go to .
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KunstlerCast 371 -- Dmitry Orlov on Russia, Ukraine, and the Swirl of Events
02/16/2023
KunstlerCast 371 -- Dmitry Orlov on Russia, Ukraine, and the Swirl of Events
#371 — Dmitry Orlov, the author of “Reinventing Collapse”, moved to the USA as a boy when his dissident parents managed to get out of the Soviet Union. He spent most of his life here, went through school and college, but ventured back to Russia for a while in the 1990s out of curiosity after the fall of the USSR. He returned to the USA where he worked in IT and eventually moved onto a boat in Boston Harbor. He’s published many other books, including “The Five Stages of Collapse,” “Shrinking the Technosphere,” “The Pitfalls of English,” and has put out the for more than a decade. I’m a big fan of his writings. After the Great Financial Fiasco of 2009, Dmitry divided his time between Boston and wintering on his boat in Central America. For several years after he started a family, he sojourned in the waters off Beaufort, South Carolina. Finally, before the Covid Melodrama, he up and resettled in St. Petersburg, Russia, where he is establishing a new phase of his literary career writing in the Russian Language. He continues to blog in English. He is a keen observer of the political and technological scene. The KunstlerCast theme music is .
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KunstlerCast 370 -- Stephan Sander-Faes on Europe's Nervous Winter
02/01/2023
KunstlerCast 370 -- Stephan Sander-Faes on Europe's Nervous Winter
Stephan Sanders-Faes is an historian of Central and Eastern Europe at the University of Bergen, Norway. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Graz in 2011 and obtained the Habilitation in Early Modern and Modern History from the University of Zurich in 2018. Before joining the Bergen faculty in 2020, he taught for ten years at the history departments at the Universities of Zurich and Fribourg, as well as held the István Deák Visiting Professorship in East Central European Studies at Columbia University in 2018. Stephan’s research focuses on post-medieval Central and Eastern Europe (c. 1350-1850), with a particular interest in urban-rural relations, administrative, bureaucratic, and constitutional changes ("ABC history"), and state transformation — that is, the emergence, and change over time, of the European national state. He’s the author of two books: Urban Elites of Zadar (2013); and Europas Habsburgisches Jahrhundert (2018). His next book will be Lordship and State Transformation: Bohemia and the Habsburg Monarchy from the Thirty Years War to the War of the Spanish Succession, expected in 2022. He blogs on current events at . Fakel means “torch” in German. Currently, Stephan is investigating the diffusion of state authority into the rural periphery of Habsburg Lower Austria from the late eighteenth century to the advent of constitutional rule in 1860s, exploring the role of non-state actors as state-builders, the patterns of transition, and the social factors influencing them. His other contributions to the field includes consulting for the EU Commission’s Research Executive Agency (Marie Curie-Skłodowska fellowships), the Polish National Science Centre (Narodowe Centrum Nauki), and the Swiss National Science Foundation, as well as serving on the international editorial board of Atti (published by the Center for Historical Research in Rovinj/Rovigo, Croatia), and as peer-reviewer for Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales, Archivio Veneto, and the Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, among others. The KunstlerCast theme music is .
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KunstlerCast 369 -- A Chat with CJ Hopkins of The Consent Factory Blog
01/21/2023
KunstlerCast 369 -- A Chat with CJ Hopkins of The Consent Factory Blog
C. J. Hopkins is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and political satirist, and author at blog. His plays have been produced and have toured at theaters and festivals including Riverside Studios (London), 59E59 Theaters (New York), Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh), Belvoir St. Theatre (Sydney), the Du Maurier World Stage Festival (Toronto), Needtheater (Los Angeles), 7 Stages (Atlanta), the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Adelaide Fringe, Brighton Festival, and the Noorderzon Festival (the Netherlands), among others. His writing awards include the 2002 First of the Scotsman Fringe Firsts, Scotsman Fringe Firsts in 2002 and 2005, and the 2004 Best Play of the Adelaide Fringe. His political satire and commentary has also been published by OffGuardian, ZeroHedge, ColdType, Rubikon, RT.com, CounterPunch, Dissident Voice, and many other publications, and has been widely translated. His dystopian science fiction novel, Zone 23, is published by Snoggsworthy, Swaine & Cormorant. The KunstlerCast theme music is .
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KunstlerCast 368 -- Chatting with David Collum about his Year in Review
01/02/2023
KunstlerCast 368 -- Chatting with David Collum about his Year in Review
David Collum is the Betty R. Miller Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. He moonlights as an Internet gadfly offering commentary on culture, politics, finance, and technology, He publishes a massive essay every Christmas season and it’s available at Chris Martenson’s . It’s a humdinger. In this chat, we reference the Christmas battlefield hiatus over in Ukraine — but we recorded this before the Jan 2 missile attack on a Russian barracks in Donbas that killed many Russian soldiers. Hope we don’t nuked for that. The KunstlerCast theme music is .
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KunstlerCast 367 -- Chatting with Stephanie Seneff of MIT about Covid-19 and Other Modern Health Issues
12/09/2022
KunstlerCast 367 -- Chatting with Stephanie Seneff of MIT about Covid-19 and Other Modern Health Issues
Stephanie Seneff is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. For over three decades, her research interests have always been at the intersection of biology and computation. She has published over 170 refereed articles on these subjects, In recent years, Dr. Seneff has focused her research interests back towards biology, especially the relationship between vaccines and autism; the harmful effects of the agricultural herbicide glyphosate (sold as “Roundup”); and study of the spike protein associate with the Covid-19-virus and the mRNA vaccines developed for it. She has published several papers on it with Dr. Peter McCullough and others. The KunstlerCast theme music is .
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KunstlerCast 366 -- Conversation with Chris M and Chris S of the New Revenant Society.
11/26/2022
KunstlerCast 366 -- Conversation with Chris M and Chris S of the New Revenant Society.
is the website and blog of the two Christophers —Christopher M and Christopher S, two off-the-grid homesteaders who are founding a tea plantation in rural Virginia. They invite correspondence by US Mail at 44 Kingston Dr. #159 Daleville VA 24083. Christopher M is an author and former counterintelligence analyst living in the Appalachian mountains. After high school, he joined the Army Intelligence Corps and deployed to Afghanistan in 2013. His time in the military drove him to want to understand cultures, leading to his completing a bachelor's in sociology and an MBA in strategic management. When he isn't writing, he enjoys reading, cooking, drawing, researching, and spending time with his cats, chickens, and ducks. His new book, The Psychology of Collapsing, will be published in paperback and e-book on December 16, 2022. If you have a Kindle, you can pre-order the e-book now! Christopher S’s dedication to horticulture and sustainable living propelled him to earn a B.S. in Environmental Sustainability. His passion for nature and sustainable living came together once he discovered Permaculture and its design ethic. Since then, he has worked on several tiny house builds, designed permaculture properties, and currently resides on an 11-acre property in Appalachia, cultivating tea (and other garden projects). Being off-grid has been a challenging experience to break into, but one that aligns with his values and purpose in life. He writes diligently about adapting to a life beyond fossil fuels and building sustainable communities. The KunstlerCast theme music is .
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KunstlerCast 365 -- A Conversation with David McAlvany
11/06/2022
KunstlerCast 365 -- A Conversation with David McAlvany
David McAlvany is a thought leader on the global economy and author of The Intentional Legacy, his thoughtful memoir on the power of legacy and what it means to create a meaningful family culture. McAlvany graduated from Biola, served as a wealth manager at Morgan Stanley, and is the second-generation CEO of the McAlvany Financial Group. He has been a featured guest on national television programs, including CNBC, Fox News, Bloomberg, and at financial seminars around the world. David is also the host of the , one of the longest-running economic and geopolitical podcasts online. The KunstlerCast theme music is .
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KunstlerCast 364 -- The Wild Western Civ Shoot-out with Tom Luongo
10/07/2022
KunstlerCast 364 -- The Wild Western Civ Shoot-out with Tom Luongo
Tom Luongo is the voice behind the blog and podcast, often featured on Zero Hedge and other sites. We venture into the dark backwaters and sidetracks of global intrigue as Western Civ goes off the rails and the US midterm election looms ominously weeks ahead. Tom describes himself as a former research scientist, amateur diary-goat farmer, anarchy-libertarian, and obstreperous Austrian economist. He built the house he lives in and he’s a lot of fun. The KunstlerCast theme music is .
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KunstlerCast 363 -- Jacob Dreizin of the Dreizin Report
09/22/2022
KunstlerCast 363 -- Jacob Dreizin of the Dreizin Report
Jacob Dreizen, a new face on the blogging scene, went to Washington as a young man, worked at a prestigious lobbying organization and briefly on Capitol Hill as well as volunteering for a successful Senate campaign. A U.S. Army veteran, Jacob is fluent in Russian and has emerged as a leading independent commentator on the origins of the Russia-Ukraine conflict -- and the U.S. role in the conflict. He has made a number of successful calls on global events, such as predicting fertilizer shortages months before awareness of the dynamic went mainstream, and warning as early as December 2021 that Western sanctions in response to Russia's pending invasion of the Ukraine would boomerang back on the West. He’s written for American Thinker and American Greatness, and has been a guest on The Duran, Viva Frei, Jackson Hinckle, and Two Mikes. His own commentary can be found at and his and channels. The KunstlerCast theme music is .
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KunstlerCast_362 — Chatting with Rays Jason, The Sea Gypsy Philosopher
08/23/2022
KunstlerCast_362 — Chatting with Rays Jason, The Sea Gypsy Philosopher
Ray Jason blogs as the . He has lived on his sailboat, the Aventura, for nearly thirty years, lately off the coast of Central America. Before that, Ray worked as a street performer, juggling in San Francisco. He’s crossed the Pacific solo from California to Hawaii many times, and is the author of and, of course T. I enjoyed discussing the technicalities of life on a boat with him. I hope you find this a charming relief from the political calamities and anxieties of the day, as much as I did — and perhaps an inspiration to find a rewarding journey in life away from the humdrum annoyances of the landlubber way. The KunstlerCast theme music is .
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KunstlerCast 361 -- Yakking with David Collum as the World Turns and Burns
08/01/2022
KunstlerCast 361 -- Yakking with David Collum as the World Turns and Burns
David Collum is the Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. He is the intellectual utility infielder of internet commentary, covering all the bases: culture, politics, finance, and technology, with often surprising views on the the predicaments of our time. Here we attempt to make sense of the fast-moving corona virus story and the increasingly weird and troubling second-order events spinning off of it into the global economy and fractious American politics du jour. is always edifying. The KunstlerCast theme music is .
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KunstlerCast 359 — Mattias Desmet and Mass Formation Madness
06/19/2022
KunstlerCast 359 — Mattias Desmet and Mass Formation Madness
Mattias Desmet is a professor of clinical psychology and Educational Sciences at the Ghent University, Belgium and a practicing psychotherapist. He is the author ofThe Psychology of Totalitarianism (Chelsea Green Publishing). Since he introduced the concept of “mass formation psychosis” into the arena of public discourse some months ago, his ideas have been discussed widely, especially in relation to the bizarre politics of Covid-19. He is also the author of over one hundred peer-reviewed academic papers and recipient of many prizes in his professional field. The KunstlerCast theme music is .
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