My Series on 3QuarksDaily – A Better Human Story

The Importance of Seeing Things Whole - 3 Quarks Daily

To read any of Andy's essays that this conversation was based on, visit

The Right of Secession (A Critique Addressed to the Pro-Confederates Among Whom I Live) (dailykos.com)

2014 piece:
The Spirit That Drove Us to Civil War Is Back – A Better Human Story

Two op/eds from the past couple of months:
The Right of Secession – A Better Human Story
What Was the Confederacy About? – A Better Human Story

To read the article that this conversation is based on, visit

Realities that Emerge Through the Evolution of the Experiential Realm - 3 Quarks Daily

To read Andy's recent essay that this conversation is based on, "How Civilization Inevitably Gives Rise To A Battle Between Good And Evil," visit

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/10/how-civilization-inevitably-gives-rise-to-a-battle-between-good-and-evil.html#more-220997

To read Andy's current essay that was discussed, visit
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/08/the-ugliness-we-see-in-human-history-is-not-human-nature-writ-large.html

A substantial body of Andy Schmookler's life's-work -- on his "integrative vision" of the human story -- can be found on his website, A Better Human Story – Andrew Bard Schmookler

This conversation has focused on "The Fate of Human Civilization"
[LINK: https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/07/the-fate-of-human-civilization.html]. 

This is the first in a series that will be presenting Dr. Schmookler's "integrative vision" of the human story, which has been his life's work.

To learn more about his work, visit
https://kunstler.com

James Howard Kunstler says he wrote The Geography of Nowhere, “Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work.”

Home From Nowhere was a continuation of that discussion with an emphasis on the remedies. A portion of it appeared as the cover story in the September 1996 Atlantic Monthly.

His next book in the series, The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition, published by Simon & Schuster / Free Press, is a look a wide-ranging look at cities here and abroad, an inquiry into what makes them great (or miserable), and in particular what America is going to do with it’s mutilated cities.

This was followed by The Long Emergency, published by the Atlantic Monthly Press in 2005, is about the challenges posed by the coming permanent global oil crisis, climate change, and other “converging catastrophes of the 21st Century.” This was followed in 2012 by Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation which detailed the misplaced expectations that technological rescue remedies would fix the problems detailed in The Long Emergency.

His 2008 novel, World Made By Hand, was a fictional depiction of the post-oil American future. It eventually became a four part series that included The Witch of Hebron, A History of the Future, and (forthcoming in June 2016), The Harrows of Spring.

Mr. Kunstler is also the author of eight other novels including The Halloween Ball, An Embarrassment of Richesand Maggie Darling, a Modern Romance. He has been a regular contributor to the New York Times Sunday Magazine and Op-Ed page, where he has written on environmental and economic issues.

Mr. Kunstler was born in New York City in 1948. He moved to the Long Island suburbs in 1954 and returned to the city in 1957 where he spent most of his childhood. He graduated from the State University of New York, Brockport campus, worked as a reporter and feature writer for a number of newspapers, and finally as a staff writer forRolling Stone Magazine. In 1975, he dropped out to write books on a full-time basis. He has no formal training in architecture or the related design fields.

He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, RPI, the University of Virginia and many other colleges, and he has appeared before many professional organizations such as the AIA , the APA., and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

He lives in Washington County, upstate New York.