Charles Hugh Smith

The immense literature on the decline and collapse of civilizations tends to overlook a simple but profound dynamic: the tunnel-vision created by the fusion…

There are many reasons why we fail, but perhaps the most critical one is continuing to do more of what has failed. This has…

Marketing has seized “your journey” by the throat. The marketing of everything from storage facilities to downtowns now references “your journey,” with the primary…

The primary characteristic of this era is the purposeful confusion of profit and greed, as if they are the same thing. Greed is good…

Unbeknownst to those of us with little inside knowledge of the complex financial plumbing of the US healthcare system, healthcare is in a death…

Black Friday refers to the accounting terminology of “in the black” (profits, gains), and “in the red” (losses). Once shoppers unleash their (supposedly) pent-up…

Of the many things I’m grateful for, let’s start with 1) a garden and 2) a library. (“Those with a garden and a library…

Public expressions of gratitude are de rigueur in America: “I’m grateful for the opportunity to…” is one of the first lines of any public…

The middle class is cracking, but if you want a statistic that “proves” this, there isn’t one. The cracking isn’t a statistic, it’s the…

This sounds like a koan, and it is. Let’s dig in. Knowledge isn’t just knowing–the ultimate manifestation of knowledge is doing–-knowing how to make,…