Pics and It Didn't Happen
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Climate Changed
A warmed globe needs new writers to guide us through it
To the Squirrels
In "his" new novel, Glenn Beck tell us one we've heard before
Exorcisms in Style
When we talk about style in writing we're talking about branding
Geographer's Revenge
In casting about for an explanation of what went wrong in Iraq, Robert Kaplan has stumbled into the shallows of geopolitics.
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol. 12
What did you think the end of time was going to look like?
Humid, All Too Humid
On the meteorology of morals
World of Weathercraft
Government weather management falls somewhere between conspiracy theory and conspiracy fact. But even if we could control the weather, would we control ourselves?
Après Nous, le Déluge
From our stories, you’d think we were ending the world
TNI Vol. 12 Editorial Note: Hail or High Water
Everybody talks about the weather —“but nobody ever does anything about it,” jokes Charles Dudley Warner. Everybody talks about it, Ulrike Meinhof repeats, but "we don’t.”
Not for Prophet
Who’s mad about The Weather Channel’s original programming?
When Lovers Die
Michael Haneke’s Amour isn’t an ironically titled film about entropy, acrimony, withering, or divorce. It's about storybook romance and true love. And just like true love, it's filled with violence, horror, and death.
TNI Vol. 12 Editorial Note: Hail or High Water
Everybody talks about the weather —“but nobody ever does anything about it,” jokes Charles Dudley Warner. Everybody talks about it, Ulrike Meinhof repeats, but "we don’t.”
How to Talk About the Weather
Eco-critc Ursula Heise on the narratives of climate change and the evolving challenges environmentalism faces in telling its story
Natural's Not In It
How do you make a food fad appeal to libertarians? Invoke human nature.
Seeing Red
Despite the bleak imaginary landscape of food deserts, urban nutritional politics is all about color.