Uncertainty and Hope Donald Trump and Elon Musk promise a cloudy picture for the future of EVs in the U.S. market. The combination of open hostility to EVs and “woke climate” concerns mixed with obviously transactional financial reasoning (Musk’s original claim to wealth!) leaves us scratching our heads about the near-term direction of the autoContinue reading “Whither the American EV Market in 2025?”
Author Archives: William Sundwick
I’m Done with the 2024 Elections
There are so many reasons for Trump’s re-election. I’m picking one to hang my hat on — the new class struggle in the country. It’s based on the educational divide. Also, Dems need some more convincing, younger communicators …
The Sadness of a Political Junkie
After a month of droning political commentary on the recent U.S. elections, I’m left rather depressed — does anybody have anything new to add?
Amending “The World in 2124”
… Am I Still Optimistic? Last April, I wrote a Warp & Woof piece entitled: The World in 2124 … I’m Cautiously Optimistic. Much has happened in the world since then. Has the optimism of my “medium-term” prediction for the next 100 years diminished? The main events, from a historical perspective, that transpired in subsequentContinue reading “Amending “The World in 2124””
Clausewitz Was Wrong
No, I’m not disputing the famous Carl von Clausewitz aphorism: “War is merely the continuation of policy by additional means.” It’s hard to disagree with that – regardless of whether you translate the German “politik” as policy, politics, or diplomacy. The statement is self-evident from our historical experience. Clausewitz, however, was establishing a dialectical tensionContinue reading “Clausewitz Was Wrong”
The Problem with “Degrowth”
Why Is This Economic Model Consigned to Such an Ignominious Little Left-wing Niche? In 1972, the Club of Rome published its alarmist report The Limits to Growth. 52 years ago, the world had not yet discovered climate panic. Indeed, climate science was still developing its nascent modeling techniques – not yet recognized by a generalContinue reading “The Problem with “Degrowth””
Peak Television?
I miss those “peak TV” years of long-running quality drama series with characters you could relate to, and situations you could dream about … will “trough TV” last much longer?
Rating Ourselves as Information Consumers
We all have our favorite information bubbles, but they’re not necessarily bad. The secret is to accept that they don’t reflect the whole world!
Wealth Creation: Does it Matter Where it Comes From?
Rent-seeking, in economic thought, seems to be critical to capitalism’s survival … but so is labor! Both are necessary to achieve the abundance we all seek …
Mutual Aid: From Kropotkin to Graeber
Two seminal anarchist thinkers contributed to the development, over the last 200 years of that strand of political and social philosophy in ways rivaled only by Karl Marx …
Warp and Woof 