Alan Greenspan Dies – One of the Architects of Modern Economic Paradigms
Few public officials have shaped modern American thinking about money, markets, and prosperity more than Alan Greenspan. For nearly two decades, Greenspan stood at...
Three Steps to World War III (Intelligence Brief)
This intelligence brief from JB Shreve & the End of History lays out a hypothetical scenario of realistic events that could occur in the...
Truth Shines Brighter Than Fiction
As the 2024 Paris Olympics drew to a close last week, we were served with a real-time case study of what the world looks...
Is This Offensive to You?
Friday afternoon, I tuned in with millions worldwide to watch the opening ceremonies of the 2024 Paris Olympics. I thoroughly enjoyed the organizer’s decision...
The Golden Age of Conspiracy Theories
Each year, Gallup tracks American trust in its institutions. That trust has declined significantly over the last two decades, but in 2022, it took...
A Look of Destiny
As a person who places his faith in front of his politics, I do not see how one can fail to see the hand...
The Louisiana Ten Commandments Law Is Not A Victory for the Faith
While I am sure it would be nice if more Americans shared my faith and Biblical-based values, the move in Louisiana to require posting...
The Things That Matter Most
On election night 2020, I participated in a podcast panel made up of guests from different political backgrounds and leanings. The questions posed included...
They Are Coming for Your Minds
As the world moved from World War II to the Cold War with the dawn of the nuclear age, a small group of writers...
Discernment In Times of Deception
There is a difference between knowledge and Truth. This is an essential and biblical paradigm for Christians to recognize and embrace. The tree of...
Is America Heading Toward Civil War?
As Donald Trump sailed toward the Republican nomination this winter and spring, at his political rallies, speakers and supporters paused to honor the imprisoned...
Sins of the Parents: The Crumbley Trials
This docmenary debuted on the Hulu streaming network in the last week.
In November 2021, 15-year-old James Crumbley entered Oxford High School in Michigan carrying...
What Will Become of Global Democracy in 2024
This video brief is available exclusively to our Patreon supporters at the End of History.
In my new book, Politically Incorrect: Real Faith in an...
History of the Christian Right – Part 6: End of the Christian Right
This final episode in our series looks at how the religious and Christian right lost its influence in America. Picking up with the culture...
History of the Christian Right – Part 5: The Culture War of the 1990s
The 1980s saw great prominence for the rise of the religious right. The beliefs and politics of this group transitioned from a subculture to...
History of the Christian Right – Part 4: A Born Again President and the...
After the tumult of the 60s and Watergate, Americans were burnt out by the mid 1970s. Jimmy Carter entered the scene as America’s first...
History of the Christian Right – Part 3: Christian America Undone the Turbulent 60s...
The idea of a Christian America began falling apart in the 1960s. For the religious right the 1960s and 70 answer the question, when did America...
History of the Christian Right – Part 2: The Christian Nation, America in the...
There is a reason why American conservatives and Christian conservatives look back to the 1950s as the golden age of America. The 1950s were...
History of the Christian Right – Part 1: Before We Were Republicans
The origin of Christian involvement in American politics has a longer history than most people realize but it probably does not begin where you...
A New Report on Economic Inequality
A new report from Inequality.org has offered further insight into the growing gap between the world’s wealthy and the rest of us.
Between 2019...
Hurricane Otis
As the tumult across the earth intensifies, the world at large finds itself conflicted in a battle for attention. Ukraine, Sudan, Gaza, Lewiston, Maine;...
Genocide Language
A few years ago, my friend Brian Butler and I released a podcast series on the history of genocide called “Never Again, Again.” One...
Worst Year On Record…So Far
The shift in weather patterns toward the extreme is being noted worldwide and occurring at an alarming rate. A recent article in the Washington...
The Green Revolution – Food Crisis Part 7
After the unique economic factors (see yesterday's post), the second solution to the crisis of these debtor nations in the early 1980s is known...
The Borrowers Become Servants to the Lenders – Food Crisis Part 6
In our last post in this series, we looked at how benevolent aid became dysfunctional politics and began reshaping the global food system in...
Benevolent Aid Becomes Pragmatic Economics – Food Crisis Part 5
By 1956, food aid accounted for half of all US economic aid throughout the world. From the 1950s onward, food became a central piece...
How We Ruined the World – Food Crisis Part 4
The end of World War II resulted in the near total destruction of Europe’s powerful nations and the global complex of colonialism they erected...
How We Saved the World – Food Crisis Part 3
Human civilization’s relationship to food supply has always been a relatively tense one. A delicate balance between food supply and growing population demand marks...
The Lands of Excess – Food Crisis Part 2
While famine rages in one part of the world, in other parts obesity is climbing to record rates. The Centers for Disease Control and...
The Rise in Scale and Frequency of Natural Disasters
Older readers will remember a time when natural disasters were significant events. Today, they seem all too common. Does it feel like it is...
The Age of Polycrisis
Welcome to the age of polycrisis. This is the age when what we once imagined as topics of dystopian fantasy has become the present...
This Is What Happens In An Economic Crisis – Lessons from History and What...
US inflation is rising. In March, US inflation rose to 8.5%, compared to 2.6% one year earlier. We can expect that number to keep...
This Is What Happens In An Economic Crisis – Lessons from History and What...
This article on the 2022 Economic Crisis was broken into two parts because we all know the other guys can’t handle reading more than...
A Cloud of Devastation Moves Across East Africa
The crises are accumulating in East Africa, with no end in sight. The famine in East Africa is the latest and deadliest pinnacle of...
The Worst Global Food Crisis Since World War II – We Are Entering Phase...
In my 2019 book How the World Ends: Understanding the Growing Chaos, I outlined three core crises found at the root of almost every...
Middle East Water Crisis
When most people think of the Middle East, they imagine sand dunes and rolling deserts. While that is true of a nation like Saudi...
America’s Inevitable Water Crisis – Happening Now
Increasingly the world is waking up to the global water crisis. That US has not escaped that wake-up call. A growing American water crisis...
A Growing Global Food Crisis
In my 2019 book How the World Ends, I laid out three central crises: food, water, and population, that would serve as the foundation...
Massive Dust Storm Hits Beijing – But That’s Only Half the Story
A massive dust cloud covered Beijing, China, earlier this week. Multiple commentators noted the “apocalyptic” feel that the images provoked.
This event was not an...
Uighurs and Rohingya – Modern Crimes Against Humanity
In this intelligence brief podcast episode available exclusively to the End of History's Patreon supporters, JB Shreve takes a deep dive into the crises...
Water Bets – Investing In Water Scarcity
In my book How the World Ends – Understanding the Growing Chaos, I traced the source of growing unrest and crisis across the world...
Pandemic Famines
Last week I mentioned in one of the daily updates at the End of History how a high ranking official at the United Nations...
Federal Forces in Portland – Intelligence Brief
This week's Intelligence Brief looks at the facts, history, and reality of President Trump's decision to deploy federal forces in Portland.
Each week JB Shreve...
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Timeline
THIS PAGE TRACKED THE GROWTH AND SPREAD OF THE CORONAVIRUS FROM JANUARY TO MAY 2020. THIS PAGE IS BEING ARCHIVED AT THIS TIME. DAILY UPDATES...
Executions in Iran – A Story By The Numbers
The brutality of the Islamic Republic of Iran is seldom questioned but in case it ever is, here are some numbers that demonstrate the...
What Caused the Syrian Civil War?
The questions of what caused the Syrian Civil War and ongoing chaos we are experiencing today do not seem to be a challenge to...
Crisis in the Red Zone
I finished the book, Crisis in the Red Zone, this week and was very surprised not only by how informative it was but how...
7 Numbers That Tell the Story of Deaths of Despair in America
Deaths of despair are deaths that result from drugs, alcohol, and suicide. It is a number that has grown at alarming rates in the last 20 years.
Erasing History
The establishment of the permitted narrative is the telling of history itself and it tells a lot about our own modern society. The efforts to hide parts of our history are not simply to protect us but to tell a new story and define a new future. It is a strategy that has been used before and it has always led to disastrous results.
The Popular, Successful, Terrible, Horrible True Story of the Scientific Theory of Eugenics
The eugenics movement was a belief that fostered racism, discrimination, abortion, and genocide. It was embraced by academics, politicians, and celebrities.
