I was in Washington DC recently and will be there again soon. It’s a wonderful city. There’s much talk about the subjects I care about, excellent ethnic food, and people are remarkably friendly: everywhere I went I got into conversation with someone, even in the reception area at the Brookings Institute. But it is a [...]

I have never been a professional environmental, paid a salary to do something to save the planet. I’ve made a little money writing about it and that’s about it. I am still very much a pleb, an amateur. And I have always intended to stay that way, because that’s the only way to understand the [...]

The energy crisis has become such a prominent subject in our house that I’ve had to ask that it not be brought up at meals–though this evening Tom did start talking about it over dessert (a cream cheese tart, by the way, topped with white currants from our garden and black raspberries from Taft Farms). [...]