The charming thing about the conservative sense of fairness is its flexibility. For conservative Catholics, the pope is the absolute and infallible head of their church … so long as what he says squares with... Read More

Years ago on a hot summer’s afternoon in Virginia, my brother and I entered a Civil War-era graveyard to do a little amateur historical research. Little did we know that armed sentinels guarded the tombs.... Read More

What a summer. The worst of human nature is bustin’ out all over. Just when you thought the Middle East couldn’t get any worse, ISIS set up a blood-soaked caliphate in Syria and Iraq, Hamas... Read More

This is your time. If, like me, you believe that nature operates according to discoverable laws and chance, without the slightest regard for human affairs, this is your time. For countless millennia, superstition has held... Read More

In line with the apocryphal Chinese curse, we live in interesting times. Mutually assured destruction having allowed us to squeak through the Cold War, we now face climate catastrophe‑but with a tragic inversion of incentives.... Read More

America’s belief in climate change can be as fickle as the weather. Every time a heat wave or violent storm strikes, the polls register a rise in acceptance. Whenever it snows, every denier crows. The... Read More

This past March was a great time to invest in gas masks. Or machetes. These, along with iodine tablets, were among the many items Californians rushed to buy in response to the crisis at the... Read More