Roger Cohen He credits the nation’s wealth, postmodernism, conformism, and despair as the reasons for this. The Japanese term is “otaku”, referring to people with obsessive interests, particularly anime, manga, and video games. Cohen admits that...

Anne Applebaum The campaign against human presence on the planet is not relegated to a radical fringe, but permeates the upper echelons of science and mainstream organizations. The concept that humans are merely carbon dioxide emitters and our...

Mike Tidwell 12/7/2009 Comparing global climate change to the civil rights movement of the 1960s, Tidwell claims that sweeping, political change is the only hope of saving the planet from large-scale destruction caused by greenhouse gas emissions....

L. Gordon Crovitz 12/7/2009 Over the past week there have been resignations and investigations of top scientists in England and the US. This event amounts to a peer review of a putative scientific “consensus” by bloggers. The story so far has played...

George Papaconstantinou 12/2/2009 The newly elected Greek government is faced with an economy in a recession, a grave fiscal situation, and deep-rooted structural problems, with a public deficit estimated at 12.7% of GDP and debt above 110% of GDP....