The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Laughter of Wolves John Michael Greer As I write these words, lean gray wolves are pacing through a rain-soaked landscape in eastern Europe.  Dim rumbling sounds in the far distance, like summer thunder that’s strayed into the wrong season, don’t bother them. Nor does it trouble them that the forest around them is dotted with the decaying ruins of buildings abandoned half a century ago. Something else doesn’t disturb them, either, but we’ll get to that. Keep the wolves in mind as we proceed. Keep them in mind. It may seem like an improbable leap from wolves running through the forest to a flustered speech by one of the pampered darlings of the Western world’s corporate aristocracy, but there’s a connection. The pampered darling is Yuval Noah Harari, the chief intellectual of  the Davos set these days. I hope I won’t be accused of setting up a straw man if I mention that he’s a gay vegan atheist who practices mindfulness meditation and writes the kind of big-picture history books

  What happened in Nevada? Arizona? Upstate NY? This: ELIZABETH NICKSON Have you noted the shining faces of RINOs on broadcast TV in the past few days? Do they not look relieved? Their grins are wide, their auras shimmering with greed and power. They are back in command. And damned happy about it too. Did we really think that the people in power could afford a resounding victory for populists?  Many of them belong in jail, all of them are on the take, from county councilor to lobbyist to senior bureaucrat to judge, and most of them live their lives swinging between triumph and terror that they will be caught. Meanwhile, like Beyonce, they are stacking their paper. To refresh: Whitney Webb’s  One Nation under Blackmail  published late last month, explains in exhaustive detail how the American government was taken over by well-dressed thieves. Webb started out writing from the anarcho-libertarian-left, but she is dispassionate. In 1,000 pages, she explains the history of the turning of d