Zen Lunacy

October 15: “I’ve been reading Whitman, know what he says, Cheer up slaves, and horrify foreign despots, he means that’s the attitude for the Bard, the Zen Lunacy bard of old desert paths,…”  

The Once and Future World

Award-winning ecology writer J.B. MacKinnon encourages the practice of “rewilding,” or restoring nature to what it once was, in a hopeful treatise on reversing the human impact on the environment.

On the Brink

October 14:  “I think that, by and large, there are these two broad alternatives: One, the quick strike. The other, to alert our allies and Mr. Khrushchev that there is an utterly serious crisis in the making here,…”