An Easy Guide to Writing the Great American Novel

Please send me my seven-figure advance. 

Divine Indigestion

The endlessly fabulized American self.

How Outer Space Dulls an Astronaut’s Mind

Deep space inhibits reasoning and memory.

Does the Left have a Future?

 It cannot find answers.

The Improbable, Bold History of Space Concept Art

The Stanford Torus was my baby.

Mommie Dearest

The pope beatifies Mother Teresa, a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud.

George Orwell and the Whiff of Genius

Orwell’s Nose was acutely sensitive — to fried dabs, gut-rot gin, stale sweat and boiled cabbage.