Anything Goes… What Trumpism and the Covid-19 Pandemic Can Teach Us About Climate Crisis By Oliver Krüger These days, we Europeans are quick to diagnose a post-factual age in light of recent events in the Read more…
Invoking the Sacred: Between Conflict and Peace in Climate Conflicts By Joram Tarusarira The impacts of climate change are increasingly undermining human, national, and international security. The modern obsession with positivism and technical approaches to Read more…
Anthropocentrism and Quietism: Scylla and Charybdis for an Integrated Migration-ecological Ethics? By Gary Slater When seeking to develop an ethics that integrates concern for ecological devastation with international migration, rich material abounds. Worthwhile responses to Read more…
At the End of the World (in a Van) By Devin Zuber Currently making its rounds through cinemas this spring (2021), Chloé Zhao’s haunting Nomadland is a creative adaptation of Jessica Bruder’s 2017 non-fiction book Read more…
Thoreau’s Ethics of Delight By Alda-Balthrop-Lewis I have been thinking about what Henry David Thoreau, a man so often described as “saint of the woods,” would make of us. He’s been a kind of companion Read more…
Why Journalists and Academics Need One Another By Michael Scaturro Recently, I interviewed a businessman who is spending his fortune lobbying politicians to ban microplastics, which threaten ocean life and may be toxic to humans. Read more…
Sub/Urban Farming, Democracy, and the Environment By Laurie Shrage In the late 1990s, a few college students began a regenerative agriculture project that has now become a small farm on a college campus in a Read more…
Democalypse Now: Unveiling our Chances By Catherine Keller What, no more apocalypse? Has the dramatic lurch into catastrophe—white supremacist mobilization, COVID-19, climate denialism—suddenly petered out? Its causes and its supporters aren’t disappearing; their idol Trump Read more…
Protestant Evangelicalism and the Merit Trap By Dion Forster Why is it that in many western countries where “life expectancy” and “material well-being” have increased, “life satisfaction” is decreasing? German sociologist Hartmut Rosa suggests one Read more…
Pilate vs. The Truth: A Biblical Confrontation for Post-Truth Christians By John Thatamanil Christians of all stripes should know better, but white American evangelicals don’t seem to: there is an absolute contradiction between following the Read more…
