American Consequences - August 2019

CONTENTS

AUGUST 2019 : ISSUE 27

LOST? CLICK HERE

73 34

24

60 44

50

4 Inside This Issue

50 Smarty Pants and Other Smart Devices BY P.J. O'ROURKE

AMERICAN CONSEQUENCES

BY STEVEN LONGENECKER

6 Letter From the Editor BY P.J. O'ROURKE

54 America Rides Again BY JOHN PODHORETZ

Editor in Chief: P.J. O’Rourke Executive Editor: Buck Sexton Editorial Director: Carli Flippen Publisher: Steven Longenecker Assistant Managing Editors: Chris Gaarde, Laura Greaver Creative Director: Erica Wood Contributing Editors:

12 What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

60 You Can Leave Home Without It BY CHRIS IGOU

14 From Our Inbox

18 How Twitter Destroyed Politics BY ANDREW FERGUSON

64 The Crypto Dark Age BY ERIC WADE

24 Amazon' and The Deep State BY DAN DENNING

70 The U.S. Economy’s Strange Decade BY LARRY HATHEWAY

28 Is Facebook Today’s Compuserve? BY MARC-DAVID L. SEIDEL

Roberto Chang, Dan Denning, Dr. David Eifrig, Andrew Ferguson, Larry Hatheway, Chris Igou, Alice Lloyd, Christian Olsen, John Podhoretz, Marc-David L. Seidel, Andres Velasco, Eric Wade Cartoon Director: Frank Stansberry General Manager: Jamison Miller Advertising: Ricky D'Andrea, Jill Peterson Editorial feedback: feedback@ americanconsequences.com

73 Will Facebook's Libra Turn Into a Cancer BY ANDRES VELASCO AND ROBERTO CHANG

34 Finding the Impossible BY CHRISTIAN OLSEN

76 Read This

40 Grandkids Growing Horns? BY DR. DAVID EIFRIG

COMPILED BY P.J. O’ROURKE AND LAURA GREAVER

44 Digital Natives May Have Destroyed Drinking BY ALICE LLOYD

78 The Final Word

BY BUCK SEXTON

American Consequences

3

Made with FlippingBook flipbook maker