News Companion

A talk by social psychologist Jonathan Haidt (pronounced "height") is packed with data and insights, metaphors and meaning. Blesse...

One of my pet peeves in journalism is the misuse of the word "skeptic" when discussing climate change. A recent example comes from...

Though our machines are pouring a steadily rising amount of greenhouse gases up into our very thin atmosphere-- a 50% rise  in overall conce...

This is a repost from PrincetonNatureNotes.org. We have watched as civilization has been taken over by forces alien to reality, as cold and ...

My friends have voiced a broad range of opinions about the coronavirus. Some think it poses a big threat, while others think the whole thing...

Most of the polarization of our time is due to people's failure to direct their skepticism inward. Skepticism is associated with strengt...

When did the U.S. give up on the future? Or, to rephrase, when did the Future stop being a galvanizing possibility and become instead a mira...

It's been weeks since the publication of Nathaniel Rich's "Losing Earth", the much-hyped article that went cover to cover ...

Through a generous grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Sustainable Princeton has been able to fund a study of Princeton's...

Most of us were raised to be good people, but we live in an era when it is impossible to be good. Sure, we do all the things that good peop...

The move by the Trump administration to open all U.S. coastal waters to drilling brings back memories of the 2008 election and the Republic...

Preface: Actors study for a role in part by seeking in themselves aspects of the character they wish to portray onstage. That technique, or...

Here are two examples of what can be called Climate Think: If we viewed terrorism the way we view climate change, there'd be no securi...

Text from the president's address to the U.N . earlier this week provides a good example of how the greatest threat to our future is bei...

A pretty good crowd showed up at Princeton University for James Baker's talk entitled "A Conservative Approach to Climate Change...

If you're wondering how the country became controlled by a science-denying president and political party, it's worth taking a look a...

If you weren't able to make it to the Climate March, or only got to see the portion of it you were a part of, click below for a showi...

As mental nourishment for the alumni who gather each spring on the beautiful Princeton University campus for the annual reunion, morning p...

At the local movie theater, we were already in a weakened state before the main feature began. The previews hit us like ten minutes of shock...

"If a problem can't be solved, enlarge it" -- attributed to Dwight D. Eisenhower After a showing of Martin Luther King'...