What we don't learn in "Original Sin"

To suppose that some specific new form of governance will emerge simply because another has failed is a fallacy. By that reasoning, Haiti and the Congo would long ago have had better government simply because what they had was so luminously inadequate.

If you know nothing else about the future, you can rest assured that dramatic changes will be neither welcomed nor advertised by conventional thinkers. You cannot depend upon conventional information sources to give you an objective and timely warning about how the world is changing and why. If you wish to understand the great transition now under

The most important question is whether Americans are prepared for the trauma that will accompany the collapse of one regime and the emergence of another.

“The question is being asked all over the world: How will America use its overwhelming power?”