News Companion

This is a repost from another blog of mine. "It's a readiness to be wrong that motivates the study needed to be right." - Y...

The recent death of George H.W. Bush has prompted many of us to navigate back in our memories to the years when he was president, after bein...

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 ...

If someone wrote a book about women or a minority, saying that mistreatment of them by those in power is perfectly natural and has in fact m...

By chance, while heading out to a March 31 workday to rescue some flowering dogwood trees from invasive porcelainberry vines at the Princeto...

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...

With iconic actors Streep and Hanks playing iconic characters Katherine Graham and Ben Bradlee in "The Post," it's time for a ...

Living in New Jersey just got more special, now that we're the only remaining state that doesn't allow drivers to pump their own gas...

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...

Sometimes, with all the criticism flying around, it's worth writing down the world you wish for. Here's an ongoing draft of my versi...

For years I've been writing critiques of a false narrative about invasive species that has recurrently found its way into books, newspa...