"Knowledge must sit in the homes and heads of people with no ambition to control others, and not up in the isolated seats of power"
Composer Daniel Elder was canceled for condemning an act of arson. Who knows, maybe he just didn’t want his own house burned down. Arson is a serious crime, and one rioter recently got five...
Many years ago, I encountered some soul-searching commentary by a former Norwegian Maoist (they were somewhat influential in Norway in the 1970s). He was asking in effect “did we really want Norway to be...
The history of the climate change issue is disappearing down the memory hole. Instead, we are getting narratives that are both dramatic and fact-filled, but give a misleading impression of what actually happened. During...
It’s harsh, but true: people making pronouncements under the banner of atheism are acting as if their thinking skills are weak. Granted, It’s not really fair to have higher standards for atheists than for...
Nobel prize winning physicist Richard P. Feynman famously said that “science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” That might seem like an extraordinary, even borderline insane thing to say. Science is many...
I love James Lindsay’s essay Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism. I believe it’s important and deserves to be widely read. Unfortunately, it’s so long that I’m afraid few people will actually read it....
The idea of “white privilege” is apparently a key concept in these racially charged times. Much of the credit—or blame—for that goes to Peggy McIntosh, the author of “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”....
In my Quilllete article on climate change, I briefly discussed the usefulness—or rather, uselessness—of trying to discover what might happen in hundreds or thousands of years. Those time scales literally do not belong to...
One thing I came across while researching my Worst Case article is Jim Bendell’s non-peer-reviewed paper Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating ClimateTragedy. It has received at least some attention. It’s been called “The Climate...
My Quillette article, Climate Change—Assessing the Worst Case Scenario, has a section near the end dealing with biodiversity and species extinctions. I’ve received a couple of critical comments on it, one accusing me of...
Naomi Oreskes has an interesting and troubled relationship to the D word (climate change denial). She is known to have claimed that anyone who doesn’t believe “renewable sources can’t meet our energy needs” is...
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