As is well known, all major forecasters confidently predicted that Hillary Clinton would win the presidential elections of 2016. On the morning of the election day (November 8th 2016) at 10:41 am, when a number of American voters had already cast their votes, FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Si

This is the most bizarre presidential election that I’ve seen since coming to this country in 1978 and probably the most bizarre in anybody’s living memory. Evidence for declining wellbeing of the American population has been piling up for years (as I exhaustively review in the just-p

Yesterday Ned Resnikoff published an article What Ancient History Has To Say About Near-Future Doom, based on interviewing me last week. It’s very well done, but several things I said didn’t make it into his text, and I thought I would expand on them in my blog. All of this is based o