Gregg Easterbrook
Recent articles by Gregg Easterbrook
Buffalo Shuffle
Can a deal with Toronto save an American football team—and its decaying hometown?
The Sky Is Falling
The odds that a potentially devastating space rock will hit Earth this century may be as high as one in 10. So why isn’t NASA trying harder to prevent catastrophe? [Web only: Video: "Target Earth"]
Global Warming: Who Loses—and Who Wins?
Climate change in the next century (and beyond) could be enormously disruptive, spreading disease and sparking wars. It could also be a windfall for some people, businesses, and nations. A guide to how we all might get along in a warming world.
Some Convenient Truths
Runaway global warming looks all but unstoppable. Maybe that’s because we haven’t really tried to stop it.
Who Needs Harvard?
The pressure on smart kids to get into top schools has never been higher. But the differences between these schools and the next tier down have never been smaller.
In Defense of C. S. Lewis
A rebuttal of recent denunciations of the classic Chronicles of Narnia as racist, misogynist, "poisonous" works.
Green Surpise
How Bush or Gore, as President, might pull a "Nixon goes to China" on environmental issues.
Forgotten Benefactor of Humanity
Norman Borlaug, the agronomist whose discoveries sparked the Green Revolution, has saved literally millions of lives, yet he is hardly a household name.
Forgotten Benefactor of Humanity
Norman Borlaug, the agronomist whose discoveries sparked the Green Revolution, has saved literally millions of lives, yet he is hardly a household name.
Voting for Unemployment
Why union workers sometimes choose to lose their jobs rather than accept cuts in wages.