No, America's postwar boom wasn't because we'd bombed our competitors into ruin paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trade-in-t...
Trade in the Ruins (Wonkish)
On misunderstanding the postwar boom
paulkrugman.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
No, America's postwar boom wasn't because we'd bombed our competitors into ruin paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trade-in-t...
Just say no to the gilding of the Gilded Age, and remember the postwar boom paulkrugman.substack.com/p/americas-f...
America’s Forgotten Generation (of Prosperity)
How and why the postwar boom got memory-holed
paulkrugman.substack.com
January 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Just say no to the gilding of the Gilded Age, and remember the postwar boom paulkrugman.substack.com/p/americas-f...
That early postwar moral clarity hits different
October 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
That early postwar moral clarity hits different
August 31, 2025 at 1:32 AM
We're a decade into this shit and I still cannot get my mind around how America put the single worst human being it has produced in the postwar era in charge not once but twice.
June 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
We're a decade into this shit and I still cannot get my mind around how America put the single worst human being it has produced in the postwar era in charge not once but twice.
The erasure of social from postwar housing
May 19, 2026 at 8:30 AM
The erasure of social from postwar housing
Andy Burnham promises the "biggest council house building programme since the postwar period."
June 29, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Andy Burnham promises the "biggest council house building programme since the postwar period."
The Trump administration is now bringing the postwar era to an end. No one should be surprised: this is what they said they would do. America's European and Asian allies need to adjust, quickly.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The End of the Postwar World
Trump and Vance are sending a dark message to America’s allies.
www.theatlantic.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The Trump administration is now bringing the postwar era to an end. No one should be surprised: this is what they said they would do. America's European and Asian allies need to adjust, quickly.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
One thing I'm getting from rooting around in early postwar periodicals is that middlebrow culture was good, actually and we're impoverished for its demise.
February 18, 2026 at 3:27 PM
One thing I'm getting from rooting around in early postwar periodicals is that middlebrow culture was good, actually and we're impoverished for its demise.
@treaty_watch
postwar settlements will respect self-determination.
@korea_reply_guy
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postwar settlements will respect self-determination.
@korea_reply_guy
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January 19, 2026 at 7:43 PM
@treaty_watch
postwar settlements will respect self-determination.
@korea_reply_guy
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postwar settlements will respect self-determination.
@korea_reply_guy
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this is why i say it's a form of hegemonic suicide. america had the entire postwar consensus built around it and decided liberal internationalism was woke
NATO leaders now speak Gaullism with an accent. Atlanticism is their first language. I do not think that will be the case 15-20 years from now.
March 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
this is why i say it's a form of hegemonic suicide. america had the entire postwar consensus built around it and decided liberal internationalism was woke
"Sartha would die from the nosebleeds" yea she would
#WARHOUND #houndandhandler #postwar #bootblacking #✨Her✨
#WARHOUND #houndandhandler #postwar #bootblacking #✨Her✨
September 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"Sartha would die from the nosebleeds" yea she would
#WARHOUND #houndandhandler #postwar #bootblacking #✨Her✨
#WARHOUND #houndandhandler #postwar #bootblacking #✨Her✨
Interesting that the Christian nationalists who decry the “postwar consensus” forget that “under God” wasn’t added until 1954.
April 29, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Interesting that the Christian nationalists who decry the “postwar consensus” forget that “under God” wasn’t added until 1954.
Washington has decided to abandon both Ukraine and its postwar role in the world, writes Martin Wolf. www.ft.com/content/b46e...
February 26, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Washington has decided to abandon both Ukraine and its postwar role in the world, writes Martin Wolf. www.ft.com/content/b46e...
the postwar decline of american manufacturing
April 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
the postwar decline of american manufacturing
I could assemble an oral history of “environmental disasters of the postwar era” from the replies and quotes of this.
Literally just lectured about this!
In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.
In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.
Oh, I don’t know. Our rivers no longer catch on fire and our air is far less poisonous than it used to be, even in smog bowls like Los Angeles. And I think those are good things.
November 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I could assemble an oral history of “environmental disasters of the postwar era” from the replies and quotes of this.
Your postwar bf
December 18, 2024 at 10:12 PM
Your postwar bf
Postwar literary fiction substituted the concept of "magic" for disinformation and propaganda
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Postwar literary fiction substituted the concept of "magic" for disinformation and propaganda
Also, if you’re measuring eras in terms of “technological innovation and deployment,” the postwar era of TV, computers, the moon landing etc seems kinda successful
January 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Also, if you’re measuring eras in terms of “technological innovation and deployment,” the postwar era of TV, computers, the moon landing etc seems kinda successful
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The coalition of the willing is spending too much time on hypothetical postwar scenarios and not enough on pressuring Russia to actually end its war on Ukraine.
Without that pressure, the war will continue and postwar plans will be worthless
Without that pressure, the war will continue and postwar plans will be worthless
January 6, 2026 at 10:34 PM
The coalition of the willing is spending too much time on hypothetical postwar scenarios and not enough on pressuring Russia to actually end its war on Ukraine.
Without that pressure, the war will continue and postwar plans will be worthless
Without that pressure, the war will continue and postwar plans will be worthless
I think a lot lately about how very young people being able to spend money on leisure was a notable part of the postwar boom
you also can’t buy a ticket without a credit card. Like I was already on the kids’ side about a lot of this, but seriously go try to do any of the things you would expect them to spend evenings and weekends doing with friends and see how much it costs and how inaccessible it is if you’re a minor
May 4, 2026 at 1:27 AM
I think a lot lately about how very young people being able to spend money on leisure was a notable part of the postwar boom
anyway I have awesome news for anyone who ever envied the German societal self-reckoning of the immediate postwar years
April 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
anyway I have awesome news for anyone who ever envied the German societal self-reckoning of the immediate postwar years