In the face of widespread ecological destruction, social injustice, economic deprivation, there are powerful countercurrents.

Whether or not he knew it, JD Vance recently waded right into one of the thorniest questions in political philosophy: Who is a citizen and who is not, and who gets to decide? Above and beyond that ...

His inspiration for "The Afterlife Project" came in conversation with an astrophysicist who calculated a plausible path for time travel.