Author: Timothy Wilken

Continuing from this year’s Edge Question. … What Are You Optimistic About? Why?  Marvin Minsky Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter to Jacques Dubourg in April of 1773: “I wish it […]

Originally published at the Author’s websites on February 5th, 2007. James Howard Kunstler Out in the public arena, people frequently twang on me for being “Mister Gloom’n’doom,” or for “not […]

John Michael Greer One of the major blind spots that gets in the way of trying to anticipate the shape of a deindustrial future in advance is the habit of […]

John Brockman runs a very interesting website called The Edge. Each year he asks a provocative question to some of best thinkers on the planet, and then publishes their answers […]

Isn’t it time that we stopped war. Not just this particular war, but the very institution of war itself? Molly Ivens The purpose of this old-fashioned newspaper crusade to stop […]

The Council on Foreign Relations established an Independent Task Force to examine the consequences of dependence on imported energy for U.S. foreign policy. Since the United States both consumes and […]

Posted at the author’s website on January 15, 2007. James Howard Kunstler The American public is understandably happy to see the bottom fall out of the oil futures market. But […]

Jared Diamond wrote: To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our earth isn’t the center of the universe but merely one of billions […]

James Howard Kunstler As The American Public Continues sleepwalking into a future of energy scarcity, climate change, and geopolitical turmoil, we have also continued dreaming. Our collective dream is one […]