Charles Hugh Smith – This month I’ve described what can be summarized as The Decay of Everyday Life: the erosion of the fundamental elements of everyday life: work, opportunity, social mobility, security and well-being, which includes civility, conviviality and a functional, competent social-political order.
In other words, Everyday Life includes far more than the financial statistics of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the stock market, wealth and income. Everyday Life is fundamentally about relationships, agency (i.e. control of one’s life and ownership of one’s work), the fulfillment of life’s purposes (livelihood, family, friends, community and self-growth), leisure time and the experiences of everyday living, both the stressors and the joys. Continue reading
Jonathan Turley – In the movie “Quiz Show,” about the rigging of a 1950s television game show, the character Mark Van Doren warns his corrupted son that “if you look around the table and you can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.”
Amelia Harris – In recent years, the scientific community has rekindled its interest in the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs, marking a significant shift from their historical stigma. During the 1960s, substances such as LSD and psilocybin became intertwined with counterculture movements, prompting governments around the world to take strict regulatory actions.
Prudent Politics – The Radical Left activists in this nation have been pushing