Geistic Musings

Searching for truth in an uncertain world

Making sense of popular culture, philosophy, psychology, spirituality & psychedelics

Essays on civilization. myth, politics, ecology

Promoting a common culture based on fairness, understanding, and humanity.

Exploring the shared upheavals of our era, including technological and cultural change, the ideological revolution consuming the West, the rise of China, and the crisis of liberalism.

A druid's essays on politics, culture, and the sacred at the end of empire.

Do not be conformed to this world

I write about subjects ranging from the mystical and psychedelic to the political and mundane.

News and features by best-selling author and reporter Matt Taibbi, in an independent package molded after I.F. Stone's Weekly. The site contains investigative journalism, satirical commentary, and the America This Week podcast with novelist Walter Kirn.