“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.” – Alfred North Whitehead

“We’ve become a less violent species because we recognize the futility and the undesirability of violence.”

Some fish evolved legs and walked onto the land. Right?

Last night I appeared on a panel here at AU with the editors and contributors to the bold new book “The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice.”  The goal of the book […]

In logic, ‘reductio ad absurdum’ shows how flawed arguments fall apart. Our absurd Universe, however, often defies our intuitive reasoning.