Stories by James Howard Kunstler

The coming implosion of big box retail implies tremendous opportunities for young people to make a livelihood in the imperative rebuilding of local economies.

Te inability to decode the clear and present dangers to civilized life is a failure of leadership and authority without precedent in the American story.

Restoring the American railroad system is an excellent place to start recovering our sense of national purpose and faith in collective enterprise.

The political theater of the moment in Washington is focused on the illusion that we can find new ways of keeping the old ways going.

The economy may go back up, but the decline in oil production can't be stopped. Does the president-elect know this?

Are we headed for a deflationary period followed by a tidal wave of inflation?

There's a great wish for American finance to return to business-as-usual happy days of high profits, but there's just too much debt to swallow.

Kunstler argues that the coming age of energy scarcity will change everything about how we live in this country -- most of all our dependency on automobiles.

America invested most of its late twentieth-century wealth in a living arrangement with no future: Suburbia represents the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. It's time for us to make other arrangements.

The era of cheap oil is over, and lost with it an energy-rich way of life that billions of city dwellers have come to take for granted.

This could be the year that the hardships and difficulties I lump together as the 'long emergency' get some serious traction.

It would be nice if we could have a coherent public discussion about staying or going in Iraq, and you can't do that without talking about the oil of the Middle East.