Politics and its Discontents

How's that climate-change denial thing working for you these days? It’s so hot in Australia that drivers’ tires are covered in melted ...

... with a little water thrown in at the end to balance things out. Meanwhile, Fortune Magazine predicts that things will only get much...

Not even the most powerful water canons in the world would seem able to tame the fires of our collective arrogance, self-indulgence, bloated...

I pray we never get to the day when scenes like the following become so commonplace that we regard them with only the passing interest we mi...

I readily admit that I am transfixed, awed and horrified by these now-regular reports of unfolding climatic disaster. Yet our hubristic self...

.... but I suspect that our earth is growing even more weary:

Every evening at 6:30, I try to take about 10 minutes to watch NBC Nightly News, the object of my interest not American politics but the apo...