We are far too wise to fall for any utopian dreaming, but instead we have fallen prey to any number of dystopian nightmares,” James Heartfield writes in his Winter 2011 Jacobin essay “The End of the World.” He worries we have succumbed to delusions of devastation, and that we are “slaves to histrionic fears”. He [...]
Every red-blooded American knows the Europeans are a bunch of effete, latte-sipping, wine-swilling communists. We’ve got it way better over here. Just look at the poor bastards, with their sky-high unemployment, graying populace, and shriveled GDP. My God, how can they live like that? Of course these days our unemployment rate is worse than many [...]
Jake Blumgart is a freelance reporter-researcher who has written for The American Prospect and The Stranger.
