2012

Archdruid Report posts originally published in 2012

• Waiting for the Great Pumpkin
• The Blood of the Earth, or Pulp Nonfiction 
• Waking Up, Walking Away
• The Myth of the Machine
• The Recovery of the Human
• Looking Backward, Looking Ahead
• The Nature of Empire
• The Structure of Empires
• The Trajectory of Empires
• America: Origins of an Empire
• America: Modes of Expansion
• America: Crossing the Line
• America: The Two Empires
• America: The Eagle and the Lion
• America: The Gasoline War
• America: The Price of Supremacy
• Seascape With Methane Plumes
• Democracy's Arc
• The Descent into Stasis
• The Twilight of Protest
• Night Thoughts in Hagsgate
• The Rumbling of Distant Thunder
• Collapse Now and Avoid the Rush
• The Parting of the Ways
• The Twilight of Investment
• The Cussedness of Whole Systems
• The Wrong Kind of Magic
• The Distant Sound of Tumbrils
• On the Far Side of Denial
• The Upside of Default
• The Degeneration of Politics
• A Crisis of Legitimacy
• The Specter of Military Defeat
• The Monkeywrench Wars
• The End of Gasoline Warfare
• How It Could Happen, Part One: Hubris
• How It Could Happen, Part Two: Nemesis
• How It Could Happen, Part Three: To The Brink
• How It Could Happen, Part Four: Crossing the Line...
• How It Could Happen, Part Five: Dissolution
• The Post-American Future
• Deterrence in an Age of Decline
• In the Twilight of Empires
• On The Border
• Consuming Democracy
• Producing Democracy
• Enacting Democracy
• The Beginning of the World