Environmental Issue
The Libertarians Strike Back
Last week, I mentioned a 2004 Reason article by Ronald Bailey advocating an individual mandate. The author's article responds, calling me "the New Republic's chief left-wing ideologue" -- take that, comrade Judis! -- and argues that his proposed plan from 2004 was totally different: READ MORE >>
Should Liberals Be More Grateful To Grover Norquist?
TNR Q&A: Dr. Stephen Schneider
Cap-And-Trade Politics: Carbon (Like Place) Matters!
Electric Cars And The Green Economy
Bernard Avishai, the author of two excellent, but sometimes misunderstood, books on Israel and on Zionism, is a professor of business at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and on top of the transformation of the older industrial into a new cyber-industrial economy. Avishai has written a very important article READ MORE >>
Cap-and-Trade Costs: Place Matters
Nuclear Option
The Case For Eating Fluffy
At the risk of seeming like I’m kissing up to the boss’s family, I have to flag this great essay by Jonathan Safran Foer in The Wall Street Journal making the Swiftian case for eating dog. After all, pigs are just as smart, but there’s nothing keeping most of us from firing up the spit-roaster. And of course, throughout history many people have taken to canine cuisine. It’s worth pointing out a few highlights from his essay. READ MORE >>
The Amazing Race for the Most Extreme Cabinet Meeting
Last month, the Maldives held its cabinet meeting underwater to highlight the fact that the island nation is at risk of vanishing as global warming causes sea levels to rise. The cabinet members all put on scuba gear, got paired with a diving expert, and had to communicate by writing on whiteboards with nifty waterproof pens. READ MORE >>
$15 billion: The New Energy Target
Now Google is in. READ MORE >>
