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Max Borders: After Collapse

America is in her twilight. Our systems are headed for collapse. So say goodbye to politics as we know it. In this audacious book, Max Borders shows us that American society is breaking down: Our socio-economic models are faulty. Our hierarchies are strained. Our belief in the founding ideals is fading. Our systems of mutual […]

The Zero Interest Trap

For the first time, this thorough analysis elucidates all economic and social consequences of interest rates that are at or even below zero. Goose bumps guaranteed, because there are zombies afoot in the economy and in society at large, and they are liable to jump right out at you when you read The Zero Interest […]

Torn: A Forensic Romance

Ripped apart by duty. Reunited to solve a military drug-dealing murder. In the city of Westbury, FORENSIC INVESTIGATOR SAVANNA JONES keeps criminals off the streets by any means necessary. So her husband’s narcissistic ultimatum just got put on hold when she must find the missing body for the arm she literally stumbles over. But catching […]

Caretakers of the Cosmos

Why are we here? Human beings have asked themselves this question for centuries. Modern science largely argues that human beings are chance products of a purposeless universe, but other traditions believe humanity has an essential role and responsibility in creation. Lachman brings together many strands of esoteric, spiritual and philosophical thought to form a counter-argument […]

Will You Be Richer or Poorer?: Profit, Power and A.I. in a Traumatized World

Will you be richer or poorer? What does the future hold for you – and for the world? Supposedly, we’re all getting richer, but many of us feel we’re becoming poorer. Why? One reason is our economy doesn’t even measure many kinds of wealth and ignores many costs. Clearly, clean air and water, good health, […]

A Secret History of Consiousness

For the last four centuries, science has tried to account for everything in terms of atoms and molecules and the physical laws they adhere to. Recently, this effort was extended to try to include the inner world of human beings. Gary Lachman argues that this view of consciousness is misguided and unfounded. He points to […]

Peak Trump: The Undrainable Swamp and the Fantasy of Maga

New York Times best-selling author David A. Stockman is the ultimate Washington insider turned iconoclast. He sounded the alarm on US deficit spending and special interest domination of both parties in the Triumph of Politics (1986); warned in The Great Deformation (2013) about massive public and private debt and the Fed’s unhinged money printing and bailouts; and exposed the imperiled […]

Socialism: The Failed Idea that Never Dies

Socialism is strangely impervious to refutation by real-world experience. Over the past hundred years, there have been more than two dozen attempts to build a socialist society, from the Soviet Union to Maoist China to Venezuela. All of them have ended in varying degrees of failure. But, according to socialism’s adherents, that is only because […]

Pictures of the Socialistic Future

Set in 1890’s Imperial Germany, this remarkable novella follows the arc of a family as narrated by the head as he initially enthuses over the socialist sweep to power. Quickly, however, he progresses through various stages of disenfranchisement that inevitably follows: first tempering his expectations, then ratcheting them downward, followed by grappling with cognitive dissonance […]