When Mother Jones posts stories from the magazine to the Top Stories box, they like to have a post on the blogs drawing attention to the piece. This was my write-up of a long-but-interesting story I fact-checked for the November/December issue. Although the process was excruciating, the people it features and the author who wrote it [...]
Posts Tagged ‘History’
Climate Change or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Posted in Mother Jones, tagged China, Environment, Foreign Policy, History on December 18, 2009 |
In his post, reflecting on the fleeting chance of a global climate agreement, Nick writes, “there simply isn’t much precedent in human history for comprehensive global agreement on tough issues.” I disagree. As the Montreal Protocol to prevent the depletion of the ozone layer and the tattered Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty have (thus far) proven, when [...]
“Public Enemies”: Just What the Banks Need
Posted in More Intelligent Life, tagged Film, History, Law & Order, Literature, Minnesota, New York, Recession on July 13, 2009 |
This is a fun little post about a movie I have yet to see. I hope to change that soon. Over Independence Day weekend Michael Mann, acclaimed director of such films as “Heat”, “The Insider” and “Collateral”, released another beautiful crime drama about an infamous Midwestern bank robber, John Dillinger. Over the course of [...]
Green.view: Lines in the sand
Posted in The Economist, tagged Arctic, China, Environment, Foreign Policy, History, India on July 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Please click here to read the original post or make a comment. UPDATE: This has been my most recommended (68) and commented on (29) article to date. Granted, some of the responses were from delusional climate change skeptics, but at least it’s nice to know people are reading! Climate change could ignite wars in volatile regions THE Matterhorn, an [...]
Noted, “Greenland’s Left Turn”
Posted in The Nation, tagged Arctic, Environment, History, Politics on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Although I left The Nation, I have continued my role as the Noted page’s unofficial international monitor of minor elections, this time reporting the results from Greenland. On a loosely related note, the new Greenlandic PM Kuupik Kleist is on Facebook. My editor friended him. On June 2 the incongruous forces of global warming and indigenous self-determination combined to bring [...]
The Q&A: Lewis H. Lapham, Writer, Historian
Posted in More Intelligent Life, tagged Advertising, Business, History, Language, Literature, Politics, Recession on June 16, 2009 |
I was tremendously lucky to get this interview and, as you’ll see below, it went very well. Mr. Lapham’s wonderful assistant Ann Gollin allotted a half-hour of his time but he let the conversation go on for nearly two hours, putting off a call to Dave Eggers in the process. I had a tremendous amount of material to work with (nearly 6,500 [...]
