Is a life without money better? — Baby Concord and I drove nearly 1,000 miles before we entered the gates of the Bruderhof community in the village of Darvell, located on the outskirts of the pretty medieval town of Robertsbridge, England. The long driveway arced gracefully past an apple orchard before passing a pine forest, whose sustainable…

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead — Greetings from Retford, England. Baby Concord and I are on the road for the next week or so (more on that in a minute)… but first: I have a new book coming out in less than a month! It’s called A God Named Josh: Uncovering the Human Life of Jesus…

The United Kingdom is getting ugly, quickly. — I knew as a ten-year-old boy that I would live in the United Kingdom when I grew up. The impetus for this resolution was a travel guidebook I discover at my auntie’s house, a collection of charming Cotswolds cottages nestled into vales and wolds beside bubbling brooks and swan-studded ponds. …

We’re all toiling to enrich parasites and it’s costing us our lives — It ain’t pretty, but it has a story! According to Welsh oral tradition, this is a “Tŷ unnos” or “one-night house.” Back when land was free/common, people could gather their friends and kin, find an empty spot and just start building. If they had four walls and smoke coming out…

Amazon joins the great reset to feudalism — “The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.” — Proverbs 22:7 Dear friends, After completely missing Christmas and spending a month laid out with the flu, I’m just now starting to get back on my feet. This week’s task: Sort my New Year’s…

It’s good news, bad news, and worse news — Happy New Year, my friends. I like to think we do a decent job of forecasting the future over here at Surviving Tomorrow headquarters. Predicting the future is obviously a silly thing to do, but boy is it fun to speculate! (I made 22 predictions for 2022 and 21 of…

Are we okay with this? — [Trigger warning: This article contains mention of domestic abuse.] I grew up believing cops existed to serve and protect vulnerable people. And this is absolutely sometimes true. I know a cop who once smashed a wife-beater through a dining room table because the raging criminal had broken open a glass…

Take a guess which orange politician let me down — On December 31, 2021, I published an article in which I made 22 predictions for 2022. As I caveated at the start, the article was written in declaratives but of course, it was simply speculative. That said, I’m a firm believer that predicting the future has a formula: Chart the…

Plus: The dire warning about landlording in “It’s a Wonderful Life” — Greetings to our 50+ new subscribers this week. I’m Jared A. Brock, your friendly neighborhood corruption correspondent. Here’s your Medium binge-reading: American Taxpayers Will Pay Nearly $1 Trillion in Interest Next Year. Does anything else think this is suicidally stupid? Want To Be Happy in 2023? Repeat This Four-Word Phrase. The key to happiness…