New World Order

Editors' Note

It’s been clear to most people for some time that the world we live in is ending. This has always been true and also never been true enough. But at least this world, the one where white men and their valets conspire to make money make money, is on its way out. The numbers aren’t adding up. People are getting jumpy. This much is obvious.

What was the world, and what ran it? The clues have been all around us. Yet the technocratic psychopath guild that controls the media — the Bilderberg group, the reptilians, the Masons — try never to let the narrative get so far out of their grasp that we’re able to piece it all together.

And so there are a lot of unanswered questions. But by looking closely at what the elites say — in Davos, or in mainstream political discourse on talk shows — we can get a sense, at least, of what they’re trying to hide. In “Just the Facts,” Jesse Spafford demonstrates the contiguity of conspiracists and wonks, Alex Jones and Ezra Klein joined in their blind obeisance to the empirical. And in “The Slopes of Davos,” Paul Cox exposes the embarrassing attempt of the managers of global capital to play the growing instability in the market like they’re improvising jazz.

Jarrod Shanahan’s “I Want to Believe” treats the ur-conspiracy theory with a dose of materialist analysis, reading it as a folk understanding of the real ways capitalists operate as a class.