Vaclav Smil (Personal website / Wikipedia) is the Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. He does interdisciplinary research in the fields of energy, environmental and population change, food production, history of technical innovation, risk assessment, and public policy. How the World Really Works is necessary reading…
Sometimes it is hard to get my head around just what is happening at the political level in America. Did we really elect a reality show star as president in 2016… and then elect him again in 2024? We did. And it didn’t just happen. It was orchestrated and implemented on a global scale my…
America’s withdrawal from democracy did not just happen. It is the result of a 50-year plan that was begun in the 1970’s with the distribution of the Powell Memo, which advised the wealthy that in order to protect their wealth — and obtain more wealth — that democracy was not their friend. Democracy in Chains…
Dark Money is the inside story of how 400 of the richest people in America put their money to work to bend academia, the media, churches, and the courts to their self-interest. The decline of democracy in America — and the rise of Donald Trump — did not just happen. It was meticulously organized and lavishly…
