Nuclear and Environmental
Herman Kahn, On Thermonuclear War (1960).
Raymond Zhnog, “For Planet Earth, This Might Be the Start of a New Age.”
Nicholas Kristof, “Cheer Up! The World Is Better Off Than You Think.”
Rebecca Solnit, “What If Climate Change Meant Not Doom–But Abundance?”
Elizabeth Kolbert, “It’s Earth Day—and the News Isn’t Good.”
David Wallace-Wells, “Greta Thunberg: ‘The World Is Getting More Grim by the Day.'”
Mark O’Connell, “Our Way of Life Is Poisoning Us.”
Simon Schama, “Simon Schama on the Broken Relationship between Humans and Nature: ‘The Joke’s on Us. Things Are Amiss.'”
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Because I am the 2022–25 Cora A. Babcock Chair in English, I have a course release each spring for the next three years. As such, I’ll only be teaching one class this semester, but I’m super excited about it: