Something for anti-technology environmentalists to keep in mind: Let me give you one small example. We complain a lot about air pollution today, but there were 200,000 horses in New York City, at the beginning of the 20th century defecating everywhere. And when you walked around in New York City, you were breathing pulverized horse… Continue reading

Salon. At age ten, still beating the odds. Congratulations!

Perhaps children’s author Philip Pullmam continues to whine about the success of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia stories because he knows none of his own agitprop will be turned into big-budget movies anytime soon. Who knows? I’m not a huge fan of Lewis’s fiction myself, but Michael Nelson does a nice job here of explaining why Pullman’s… Continue reading