Brunch at the End of the End of History
...stress people turn to subjects such as growing food, canning, mending, and preparedness. Enthusiasm for these subjects surged after the stock market crash of 1929 and the oil crisis of the 1970s. Catastrophic financial trauma usually results in a rightward turn: fascism in the 1930s, Reagan in the 1980s and the shape-shifting postmodern right of our time. By now, myself included, we’re likely fatigued by a tsunami of premature hot takes on the U.S...