Just about every government is taking at least halting steps to do something about the likely impending catastrophe. The United States is leading the way–backward.

The U.S. midterm elections register a level of anger, fear and disillusionment in the country like nothing I can recall in my lifetime. Since the

Of all the “threats” to world order, the most consistent is democracy, unless it is under imperial control, and more generally, the assertion of independence.