Politics and its Discontents

As I wrote earlier this year , I have pledged not to visit the United States until, at the very least, the Donald Trump presidency is hist...

This little gem speaks for itself.

For me, the plastic water bottle is an apt symbol for the mentality that encapsulates the western world today: the passion for convenience...

I just read Owen's blog , which today talks about the wily Trump's real purpose behind his plan to reduce the corporate tax rate t...

The news is very bad, but that isn't really news for those of us who follow climate change: A new international report shows that Ar...

I don't know how many of you remember the 1983 Wood Allen film, Zelig , in which Allen plays an individual with the uncanny ability to...

At a time when darkness and ignorance seem to have become default positions for far too many people, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson ha...