The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond

by George Friedman

A visit to a European university will reveal Spartan quarters when compared with most American universities.

Taken as a whole, most American professors do no or little significant research.

Contrary to myth, you can be a very effective teacher without having published a significant article.

Today, when you walk into a bar, there are no debates or seductions under way. Men and women sit looking at their phones.

The children of what are called millennials will be the ones who revolt against the previous generations’ rootlessness. They will be the ones who find computers and the Internet old-fashioned and creating powerful family ties modern.

The foundation of any empire is not guns, something that Hitler and Stalin never grasped. It is money, and the envy that brings.

All empires are hated and envied. Power is not diminished by either.