James E. McWilliams
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They Speak for the Trees
Paradoxically, our most insidious environmental problems are often ones that do not immediately impact our daily lives. Refineries spew pollution into the air, and [...] Full Story -
They Speak for the Trees
Paradoxically, our most insidious environmental problems are often ones that do not immediately impact our daily lives. Refineries spew pollution into the air, [...] Full Story -
Food Fight
“When it comes to food,” writes Robert Paarlberg, “everyone is interested.” This understatement captures the restraint of Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know. [...] Full Story -
It Is the Heat
About two million years ago our ape-ish ancestors experienced a number of rapid physical changes: rib cages shrank, pelvises narrowed, teeth became smaller, stomachs [...] Full Story -
Review
Critical gestures against industrial food are all the rage these days. Michelle Obama planted a White House garden. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack jackhammered a [...] Full Story
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Ducking the God Question
Darwin’s Gift: To Science and Religion The Creation-Evolution Debate As often happens when a topic lands in the eye of a media hurricane, Darwinian [...] Full Story -
Torture American Style
On March 27, The New York Times reported that Guantanamo Bay prisoner David Hicks, a 31-year-old Australian with some al-Qaida training, had pleaded guilty [...] Full Story -
Up or Out in the Colonies
Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America. Once upon a time in America, sex was everybody’s business. Consider [...] Full Story -
Afterword
Readers of the gushing Austin American-Statesman could be forgiven for thinking differently, but other people actually ran the 2006 New York City Marathon besides [...] Full Story -
Stand and Deliver
Deliver the Vote: A History of Election Fraud, an American Political Tradition—1742-2004 Even before the first absentee ballots arrived, the nation’s legal guns were [...] Full Story