Still don't believe THREE BLACK SWANS is possible? See NYT today.

If you don't believe that the catastrophe described in THREE BLACK SWANS is possible, or maybe

even likely, check out Christopher Cox's excellent essay in the Aug. 23, 2026 NYT Magazine section entitled "What if America went Completely Dark?" The tagline on the cover reads "What if the Grid Fails? A national blackout would be surprisingly easy to trigger- and extremely hard to fix." That says it all.

See < https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/magazine/national-blackout-power-electricity-outage.html>.

Now imagine that you layer that on a man-made financial collapse and a brand-new deadly virus and, Presto, you have the mother of all polycrises.