This moneyquote from Hollywood Elsewhere on the political implications of James Cameron’s Avatar is making the rounds. But it’s pretty juicy, so here goes: The political import of Avatar — and there’s no waving this aspect away because it’s right in your face start to finish, and especially in the third act — is ardently [...]

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Carl Zimmer takes issue with George Will’s “see no evil” approach to global warming and the Washington Post’s mamby-pamby fact-checking: Will ignores the fact that climate change is a noisy, long-term process. Today it is cooler at my house than it was yesterday. That does not mean that next week I will wake up to [...]

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A new poll by the Pew Research Center reports yet another huge gap between the American scientific community and the public at large. According to the NYTimes, the main areas are “climate change” (a euphemism for “global warming” as poor in content as “enhanced interrogation techniques” is to “torture”), evolution, and the value of research [...]

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Like a broken clock accurately reporting the time twice a day, globalization cheerleader Tom Friedman hits upon a kernel of truth: Let’s today step out of the normal boundaries of analysis of our economic crisis and ask a radical question: What if the crisis of 2008 represents something much more fundamental than a deep recession? [...]

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