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Call it Factory Planet: a world in which natural processes are treated as parts of a vast world-machine operated to produce a maximum amount of wealth for humans.

It may be the great sentiment of this American moment: “I want to build something of my own. How do you not understand that?”

Both the Right and Left in American politics agree with this aim - to keep America "number one."

Natural disasters and security threats seem to beg for a response that is massive, coordinated, and centralized. If so, how can the consolidation of state power be tempered and the…

The future of the Tea Party is uncertain, but there are interesting possibilities.

Why not stand on the shoulders of the Kindle?

Lovers of snow and cold are qualitatively different from the lovers of sun and surf; they are different moral beings altogether.

My own views would fall most accurately along the continuum between anarcho-capitalist and conservative-traditionalist...

Men cut off from their origins and alienated from their selves become desperate, and desperate men do desperate deeds.

Even as he denounces the conservative justices for activism and for creating "legislation" from the bench, as well as the general conservative movement for a "double standard without apology" .…

Here’s a sign of the times: if you’re worried about what all these digital and internet technologies are going to do to books, you can join a movement to signal…

Let's just go all the way, folks.

We have for so long asserted that we are a force for good in the world and that our efforts are in the service of "democracy" that we can no…

Education should be a reason to come back.

Doubtless he is a proud example of a high-level commitment and an educational system that aims to produce deracinated, placeless individuals.

A homogeneous global consumer culture flattens its victims. And, perhaps in the same vein, our meanderings around the dying furniture capital of Yecla turned up nothing: virtually everything on display…

We need not rely with some desperation on the Hope that is a gift, if we can gin up optimism of our own sort.

What if we had more states?

Obama is suffering because whether or not it is true, he seems not to understand what is going on around the country. Whether or not it is true, he seems…

A stay-at-home congress may serve constituents better.

This will not last. Greed consumes everything, until it finally consumes itself.

In 1973, the Supreme Court handed down the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton abortion decisions. Together, they represented a serious defeat for the unalienable right to life, the…

A friend of mine with a penchant for self-effacement said “There’s just not enough time to get the work done and procrastinate.” It is not that he only works well…

But as a profound poet trying to make a comfortable living I can’t really trouble myself about that fit audience though few. . . . Were I to start thinking…