One of my favorite movies from the 1970s is Richard Fleischer’s science fiction thriller Soylent Green.  Set in 2022, the movie is wrapped in concerns of the early 1970s about overpopulation, dwindling resources, government corruption...

The biodiversity crisis is worse than climate change. This was the conclusion of leading international experts, meeting in Paris last week to assess the status of ecosystems. More than 1 million species will be annihilated in the next decades....

The idea that society is a system—or that it frequently acts like a system—is so familiar that we take it for granted. In a broad sense, we often find it easy to generalize about the behavior and beliefs of large groups of people. We talk...

No figure has hovered over eighteenth-century printing in America or the historians who write about it more than Benjamin Franklin. The most famous colonial American printer, Franklin was by far the most successful practitioner of the trade...

Movable Markets is the untold story of the evolutionary movement of the wholesale marketplace for fresh food in the United States from central produce districts to...

Becoming an Academic is the result of nearly 10 years of blogging on The Thesis Whisperer. The blog has become...