LuthungZ 8:56 AM Add Comment Happy Holidays--No post this week I'm taking a holiday break and expect to post again on Sunday, January 1. Read More
LuthungZ 8:03 AM Add Comment The climate trials of the 21st century have begun We now have underway the first climate trials (or various stages of them) of the 21st century. The overall question in these trials is actua... Read More
LuthungZ 7:00 AM Add Comment The post-fact world and the need for a new consensus In a piece I wrote four years ago I asked whether we were moving toward a fact-free world. Now, I wonder if that world has arrived. The med... Read More
LuthungZ 6:44 AM Add Comment Who's afraid of a recount? Why all the fuss about the recounts which Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is asking for in three states, Michigan, Wisconsin a... Read More
LuthungZ 8:50 AM Add Comment Taking a short break - no post this week I'm taking a short break and expect to post again on Sunday, December 4. Read More
LuthungZ 6:39 AM Add Comment Is President Trump the reincarnation of President Tyler? Many commentators are saying that the election of Donald Trump, a novice who has never held political office, to the presidency of the Unite... Read More
LuthungZ 7:19 AM Add Comment Trump: America's pilot-in-chief in the post-ecological age Many Americans are frightened by the idea of Donald Trump as the country's new pilot-in-chief, fearing he'll crash the airliner of s... Read More
LuthungZ 7:13 AM Add Comment The most powerful word in politics is 'no' I always advise candidates with whom I consult to find something to which they can say "no" and to say "no" to it often.... Read More
LuthungZ 7:22 AM Add Comment Howard Odum, transformities and the urban/rural divide in America It's hard not to see the urban/rural divide in the United States--unless you just don't look. Perhaps the most iconic image represen... Read More
LuthungZ 8:31 AM Add Comment Campaign melodrama: As the world burns In the melodrama that passes for the U.S. presidential campaign, Donald Trump got practically all the post-debate headlines last week when ... Read More
LuthungZ 9:08 AM Add Comment Deepwater Horizon and our emerging 'normal' catastrophes While watching the recently released film "Deepwater Horizon" about the catastrophic well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico that caus... Read More
LuthungZ 8:00 AM Add Comment OPEC production cut: Just another Saudi head fake? What do you do when everyone is bugging you to do something, but you don't want to do it? The simple answer is that you make it look lik... Read More
LuthungZ 7:41 AM Add Comment Donald Trump and the impossible destination of globalism In a recent column , The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman shows himself to be as good a spokesman for the world's elites (with ... Read More