In Sam Mendes’ 1999 film, American Beauty, the neighborhood marijuana dealer and film aficionado, Ricky, shows his new girlfriend a video of “the …

Bill McKibben’s 1989 book, The End of Nature, made a novel argument; that civilization had altered the processes of life everywhere as man …

Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher whose legacy in our language includes words like “epicure” and “epicurean.” He taught …

President Obama recently gave a campaign themes speech in Osawatomie, Kansas. It was an hour long and laid out the President’s views of the most …