Covid

 Why David Quammen is not surprised.

Timber Mafias

 Preying on Latin America’s forests.

Homeless Anarchy in Los Angeles

Police in Los Angeles, like in all cities run by progressive liberals, are up against a system that is failing. It makes their jobs nearly impossible.

When Plants Go to War

In the fight against insects, plants have evolved an arsenal of ingenious chemical defenses.

The Taste Makers

The secret world of the flavor factory.

Out There: On Not Finishing

What happens if the stories we tell ourselves about our lives leave us lonely, wrestling with meaning?

Enoch Powell Reconsidered

As a new book notes, many of his most troubling predictions have indeed come to pass.

The First Commercial Air Lock is Coming to the International Space Station

NanoRacks will use the new addition to deploy satellites and conduct research.

How to Think about Existential Threats

 There’s no reason to assume that the curve of progress is linear, that the climb is ever increasing.

Is the University of Edinburgh Right to “Cancel” David Hume?

Great thinkers can have reprehensible views but there are better ways to deal with this paradox.

PJ O’Rourke

This is why millennials adore socialism.

The Myth of Harmonious Indigenous Conservationism

The great morality tale of our time is playing out in an obscure part of British Columbia.

Forestry Officials Warning

Looters are targeting homes evacuated during West Coast wildfires.

Why Intellectuals Fall for Socialism

Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. 

From the Royal Astronomical Society

 Hints of life on Venus.

Pasifika Peril

 She says what I wrote in Stories of the Southern Sea.

Teach What You Love

A modest proposal for professors of literature.