Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy offers a path to meaning through creative action, even in a world shaped by frustration
Thursday, July 30, 2026
Baby Busts and GDP Booms: Demographic Change and the Macroeconomy
Good news of sorts from the economic front: An aging population, aka demographic decline, does not lower GDP or earnings growth.
Iran War: Jordan Strike Shows Iran Intensifying War to Exhaust US Economy and Military; Trump Takes Bait by Retaliating
Today’s Iran war news: Iran is trying to deke Trump into more energy and munitions depleting action. He seems to be falling into the trap.
Rob Urie – Empire Versus Civilization: The US Is Now Officially a Pariah State
Rob Urie shreds the downtrodden state of the Empire, including the desperation revealed by reviving the tired “Communist” bugaboo.
Satyajit Das: American Greatness?
America’s greatness ain’t what it used to be, and is often misunderstood even when it once existed.
Coffee Break: Ellison Empire Beseiged On All Fronts
Things have only gotten worse for the Ellison family tech and media empire (Oracle, Paramount, TikTok) as they face mounting legal and financial pressure on all fronts.
China and War
What China has in store for our well-funded generals.
Alcohol and the Eclipse of the American Dream?
STAT News is an essential news source for all things Biomedicine (i.e., Big Medicine plus Big Pharma), from the delivery of health care in the clinic to the basic research that is the foundation of clinical care, to the unremittingly garish politics of the moment that affect the entire structure of science in America. The […]
Iran War: Iran Hits US Base in Jordan After US-Saudi Strike on Iraqi Militia
Today’s Iran war news. So much for that pause. Iran hit the US base in Jordan because provocation as Netanyahu pushes for bigger US strikes.
French Climate Lawsuit Offers a Window into the Next Round of the Global Legal Fight
Why French disclosure requirements for climate change are a terrible way to combat the accelerating crisis.
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Secrecy Petard
Military secrecy is essential to national defense, but it carries an inherent institutional risk. This article introduces the concept of Secrecy Degeneration: the gradual transformation of classification systems from protecting military capabilities to protecting the institutions responsible for developing them.
Marx and Nature: Why a Socialist Transformation Cannot Ignore the Transformation of Human Relations with Nature
John Bellamy Foster debunks the misconception that socialism and Marx’s materialism had no role in the development of ecological analysis
