James Howard Kunstler

KunstlerCast - Conversations: Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century

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James Howard Kunstler, author of "The Geography of Nowhere" and "The Long Emergency," takes on suburban sprawl, disposable architecture and the end of the cheap oil era each week with program host Duncan Crary.

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James Howard Kunstler

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Society

Podcast website

kunstler.com

Latest episode

Jun 30, 2026

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Episodes

KunstlerCast 396 -- Jasun Horsley Explores the Uncanny Valley with "Big Mother" 09.03.2024

Jason Horsley produces the Children of Job Blog and Podcast . He is the author most recently of Big Mother: the Technological Body of Evil , and many other books. He was born in Britain and has lived in Morocco, British Columbia, and now Spain. Jasun's work is an excursion into the uncanny valley of philosophy where good and evil battle on a landscape of linguistics, technology, demonology, crime,...

KunstlerCast_395 -- Art Berman on the US Oil Scene 15.02.2024

With 45 years in petroleum geology, Art Berman describes himself as an energy realist who integrates energy, the economy, the environment, and human behavior into his view of the industry and society. He routinely gives keynote addresses for energy conferences, boards of directors and professional societies. Berman has published more than 100 articles on energy and the effect on earth systems incl...

KunstlerCast 394 -- Tom Luongo on the Federal Reserve versus the World and other Current Events 04.02.2024

     Tom Luongo is a Former Research Chemist, Amateur Dairy Goat Farmer, Anarcho-Libertarian and Obstreperous Austrian Economist who blogs and podcasts at Gold, Goats and, Guns . His work can also be found on sites like Zerohedge, Lewrockwell.com, Bitcoin Magazine and Newsmax Media. His work focuses on the attempt to connect the false narratives of geopolitics to viable long-term investment theses...

KunstlerCast_393 -- Chatting with Jacob Dreizen about the Ukraine Situation 31.01.2024

Jacob Dreizin runs the dreizin report.com , a recently-paywalled, "boutique blog for discriminating shoppers of highly objective alt-news and forecasting."  An immigrant and army veteran, Jacob has worked in the DC political sphere in high-level BS/spin production; has several graduate degrees, speaks fluent Russian; and likes to say he's the USA's leading (or only) independent expert on the "hist...

KunstlerCast 392 — The Blogger Euygyppius on Trouble in Germany 19.01.2024

"Eugyppius" is a former academic who blogs about the pandemic aftermath and the pathological politics of modern Germany. He recently returned from observing the farmer protest in Berlin. Eugyppius spent much of his life abroad and over a decade in American universities as a grad student and a teacher. He writes in English on Substack. He is very careful about revealing more of his identity given t...

KunstlerCast 391 -- David Martin, Up Against the Covid-19 Genocide Machine 23.12.2023

    Dr. David E, Martin returns after delivering tough love about the Covid crime to governments in the UK and continental Europe. David is the Founder and Chairman of M·CAM Inc., the international leader in innovation finance, trade, and intangible asset finance. He's been among a select band of international thought-leaders investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, in particular the re...

KunstlerCast 390 — David Rogers Webb and The Great Taking 16.12.2023

David Rogers Webb is the author of The Great Taking , which is about the insidious plan by central banks and international financial regulatory institutions to crash the unsustainable system and seize whatever assets the crash doesn't vaporize — meaning, your savings, your wealth, and your supposedly freely-owned chattels. Much of this mischief was accomplished by surreptitious changes to the Unif...

KunstlerCast 389 —Yakking with John Michael Greer about the Spiritual Condition of our Floundering Country 30.11.2023

John Michael Greer blogs at Ecosophia , subtitle, Toward an Ecological Spirituality. JMG has been an astute observer of Western Civ's arduous economic and cultural descent, and is the author of many books, both novels and non-fiction, including Green Wizardry , After Oil , The Wealth of Nature , and Not the Future We Ordered . Star's Reach , is a novel set 400 years ahead in America's neo-medieval...

KunstlerCast 388 — Naomi Wolf on Medical Freedom and Facing the Beast 10.11.2023

Naomi Wolf's new book is the just published Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a New Dark Age . Naomi has become a field marshal in the battle for medical freedom, assembling a staff of over three-thousand researchers to analyze the Pfizer drug trial documents that the company wanted to keep secret for the next seventy-five years — but were forced to release under a court order. N...

KunstlerCast 387 — Godfree Roberts on China Rising 27.10.2023

    Godfree Roberts is the author of Why China Leads The World: Talent at the Top, Data in the Middle, Democracy at the Bottom.     Godfree Roberts contacted me and suggested I interview him about his book. I thought, 'okay, why not.'      Well, I've never offered up an evaluation of a guest at the outset of the podcast, but I must tell you, I came to the conclusion as the conversation went on, th...

KunstlerCast 386 -- Chatting with the Substack Blogger "Eugyppius" 08.10.2023

"Eugyppius" is a former academic who blogs about the pandemic aftermath and the pathological politics of modern Germany. He spent much of his life abroad and over a decade in American universities as a grad student and a teacher. He writes in English on Substack. He is very careful about revealing more of his identity given the extreme censorship and cancellation action in his country these days Y...

KunstlerCast 385 — America's Thought Disorders with Clinical Psychologist Lucas Klein 01.09.2023

  Lucas A. Klein, Ph. D. is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been in private practice for 14 years. He has been a criminal and civil forensic psychologist, and now runs Real Clear Podcast   He grew up in upstate NY not far from Jim, moved to the west coast, and now spends an inordinate amount of time trying to understand why humanity is so irrational. You can find his show here: https://ww...

KunstlerCast 384 — Left-potism, the Vicious Tail of Left Politics, with Daniel Klein 19.08.2023

Daniel Klein is professor of economics and JIN Chair at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he leads a program on Adam Smith. He is the author of Smithian Morals and Central Notions of Smithian Liberalism. I admired his widely-read 2023 essay "Misinformation Is a Word We Use to Shut You Up," which has been posted by Brownstone Institute, Independent Institute, Zero Hedge, and oth...

KunstlerCast 383 --Truthophobia: How the Boomers Broke Journalism, with Graham Majin 12.08.2023

Graham Majin was a broadcast journalist for 20 years, 14 at BBC News. His inside knowledge gives him a unique insight into how journalists think and how news is produced. He teaches journalism at Bournemouth University on the sunny south coast of England.   He has written about the concept of Journalistic Truth, about Donald Trump, Russiagate, fake news, misinformation and the history of journalis...

KunstlerCast 382 -- Lt. Col (Ret) Karen Kwiatkowski on American Interventionism 22.07.2023

Karen Kwiatkowski grew up in western North Carolina. She was commissioned in the U.S. Air Force in in 1983 and served tours in Alaska, Massachusetts, Spain, Italy and Fort Meade as a communications-electronics officer. She later served in political military analysis at the Pentagon, retiring after 20 years as a Lt Colonel. Since her retirement in 2003, she has spoken out against an interventionist...

KunstlerCast 381 — Farmsteading in the Heartland with Becca and Jarrod 14.07.2023

Becca Dickens and Jarrod Yantis are owners of Regenerative Life Farm, located near Lake Shelbyville in rural, central Illinois. Their outfit is on 19 acres including a half-acre no-till, deep compost market garden and the rest is used for rotational grazing of 300 chickens and cattle. Their motto is "Regenerating ourselves, our soil and our community." They sell eggs and vegetables at farmer's mar...

KunstlerCast 380 - Post doom with Eco-theologian Michael Dowd 02.07.2023

The Reverend Michael Dowd is a bestselling eco-theologian, TEDx speaker, and pro-science, pro-future advocate whose work has been featured in The New York Times , LA Times , Wall Street Journa l, Washington Post , Newsweek , Discover , and on television throughout the United States and Canada. His book, Thank God for Evolution , was endorsed by 6 Nobel Prize-winning scientists, noted skeptics, and...

KunstlerCast 379 --A Conversion with John Klar, author of Small Farm Republic 17.06.2023

John Klar is the author of  Small Farm Republic: Why Conservatives Must Embrace Local Agriculture, Reject Climate Alarmism, and Lead an Environmental Revival, just published by Chelsea Green. John is seventh-generation Vermonter who lives in Brookfield, where he raises grass-fed lamb and beef. Before that, he worked as an attorney. He's also staged campaigns for governor and state senate. Supporti...

KunstlerCast 378 — Former Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas on How His State of Vermont Got So Woked Up 09.06.2023

James H Douglas served Vermont for more than 35 years as a legislator, Secretary of State, State Treasurer and Governor. He advanced groundbreaking health reforms that have made Vermont a national model. Douglas chaired the National Governors Association and President Obama appointed him co-chair of the Council of Governors. He now teaches at Middlebury College, his alma mater. I called him to tal...

KunstlerCast 377 -- John Michael Greer on Magic and the Reenchantment of Daily Life 14.05.2023

#377 — John Michael Greer blogs at Ecosophia , subtitle, Toward an Ecological Spirituality. JMG has been an astute observer of Western Civ's arduous economic and cultural descent, and is the author of many books, both novels and non-fiction, including Green Wizardry , After Oil , The Wealth of Nature , and Not the Future We Ordered . Star's Reach , is a novel set 400 years ahead in America's neo-m...

KunstlerCast 376 — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Is Running For President 02.05.2023

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr is a candidate for president running for the Democratic Party nomination.   He's a long-time environmental lawyer, author of the book The Real Anthony Fauci, which has sold over a million copies — and still hasn't made it to the New York Times bestseller list for some mysterious reason. He's the Founder and chairman of the Children's Health Defense organization. His father, R...

KunstlerCast 375 -- Neil Howe on How's the Fourth Turning Going So Far 24.04.2023

Neil Howe is a renowned author and speaker on economic, demographic, and social change in America. He is the nation's leading authority on social generations — who they are, what motivates them, and how they will shape America's future. Howe is the originator of the term "Millennial Generation" and has written over a dozen books on generations and generational research, a field of research he singl...

KunstlerCast 374 -- Michael Rectenwald on Woke Totalitarianism 11.04.2023

Dr. Michael Rectenwald is the author of twelve books, including The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty: Unraveling the Global Agenda (Jan. 2023), Thought Criminal (Dec. 2020); Beyond Woke (May 2020); Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom (Sept. 2019); Springtime for Snowflakes: "Social Justice" and Its Postmodern Parentage (an academic's memoir, 2018) A former M...

KunstlerCast 373 — Jeffrey Tucker of the Brownstone Institute on the Covid Bamboozlement of Donald Trump, and Other Developing Matters 23.03.2023

Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown . He is also a columnist at Forbes, founder of the Atlanta Bitcoin Embassy, and Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Austrian Economics Center in Vienna, Austria. He is the editor of The...

KunstlerCast 372 — — A Conversation with Dr. David E. Martin — Prosecuting Covid Crimes 12.03.2023

I'm doing another lap with Dr. David E Martin the Founder and Chairman of M·CAM Inc., the international leader in innovation finance, trade, and intangible asset finance. He's been among a select band of international thought-leaders investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, in particular the relationships between US public health officials, the pharmaceutical companies, and a number of...

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