Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.

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• James Howard Kunstler:

  On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destro

• James Howard Kunstler:

  When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a

• James Howard Kunstler:

  Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run o

• James Howard Kunstler:

  My beef with the alt-fuel people is not the renewable or alt-fuel ideas themselves. Sooner or later

• James Howard Kunstler:

  Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cyn

• James Howard Kunstler:

  I think that Obama's failure to reestablish the rule of law in money matters is the most damaging t

• James Howard Kunstler:

  I think a lot of things will be self-correcting, even in America. After all, human societies are es

• James Howard Kunstler:

  The faltering of our suburban living arrangement is probably certain. The response of suburbanites

• James Howard Kunstler:

  Phoenix and Las Vegas have grim long-term prospects. On top of oil-and-gas problems, they will have

• James Howard Kunstler:

  I think water transport will see a revival. However, we're not going to replay the 20th century. Th