This Holiday Season, Give the Wonderful Gift of Nothing
There's actually something refreshingly wonderful about enjoying all the traditions without the obligation to buy or…
Author: Charles Hugh Smith
What’s It Take To Be Middle Class Now?
Can an economy in which 10% of the households qualify as middle class claim to offer…
Check All That Apply: Artifice, Suppression, Deceit, Denial, Delusion
Why does the phrase "bread and circuses" keep coming to mind?
Can We Reverse America’s Distemper?
Social trust, a baseline measure of social stability, has eroded. Consider this description of America's discontent:
The Original Song That Came To Me in a Dream
It was interesting to compose a melody in a dream. Of Two Minds is devoted to…
The Invisible Court’s Verdict: You Are Hereby Exiled to Digital Siberia
As in the Gulag it replicates, the innocent are swept up with the guilty in a…