AI looks like anything but what the world needs right now to save us from a hell on earth. The beleaguered planet needs the human brain—Less Than Artificial Intelligence (LTAI)—to grapple with the great issues of our times despite its grim record. Continue Reading
My father fought in World War II. Since then, the US has never won a war and the country has invested ever increasing taxpayer dollars into the military. In this piece, I explore great-power warfare since 1945 and wonder what lessons my dad might have drawn from it. He might have suggested: If you're a "great" power, don't go to war! Continue Reading
A passage from "The Prophecy" in my 1962 high school yearbook introduced me as a "world-renowned historian of the late twentieth century," appearing from what's clearly a nuclear fallout shelter to find that the world of my future has returned to the Stone Age and my now-aged classmates are all dressed in deerskins. With the double-barreled threats of nuclear war and climate change, I try to... Continue Reading
With the ringing in of the new year, we need to assess what is likely to change as well as what needs to change. It’s probably too late to hope that the media will change its ways or acquire the sense of urgency needed to respond effectively to the real emergencies that require our collective focus, and notably climate change. Continue Reading
There is an increasing Trumpian urge to ban books (and subjects) from public school courses and libraries across the US. Continue Reading
A heating planet is a danger, not in some distant time, but right now — yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Continue Reading
Is there a viable future in which the relationship between the US and China — the two largest greenhouse gas emitters — is a warlike one? Continue Reading
Given the role the United States has played in wars and militarized conflicts of every sort, when has the country ever not been at war? Continue Reading
The planet is not only wounded by the COVID-19 pandemic. Climate change will prove increasingly devastating to our lives. Continue Reading
How, since 1991, imperial history has happened at warp speed — and not to the advantage of the United States. Continue Reading
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