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As part of the 2019 graduation ceremonies, political columnist George Will gave one of the more curious speeches ever to bounce off the o...

A surprise bestseller this past year in the U.S. was "The Hidden Life of Trees," a book that gained popularity in Germany before b...

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...