Words For the Wise
Michael BalterPolitics, science, academia, #MeToo, investigations
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Hantavirus is a climate story.
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It really doesn’t pay to be seen as a Cassandra when it comes to infectious diseases. As long as your prophecies—for example, about the risk of a human avian flu pandemic or some other virus that might be lurking around the c...
A Christian argument for birthright citizenship.
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Last week I published a post entitled “On Christianity, morality, and where the critical dividing lines are really to be found.” Its starting point was some observations (and admiring remarks) about New York Times columnist D...
On Christianity, morality, and where the critical dividing lines are really to be found.
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I know it may sometimes look as though I get all of my ideas from the New York Times, but those who have been reading this newsletter for a while will know that is not true.
A piece in yesterday...
Things I never did and (probably) will never do.
La Bièvre by Charles Marville ca 1862
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I got a shock this morning as I was reading the New York Times online, although it wasn’t because of anything in the news. There in the Book Review section was a review of a new novel by...
The war is over!
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So I see in the New York Times this morning that President Trump has declared the war in Iran is over (for at least the second or third time although I am losing count.)
It reminded me of a great song by the great Phil Ochs...
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Michael Balter is a journalist/journalism instructor based near NYC. Over 40+ years, he has written for Science, Scientific American, NYT, WaPo, SciAm, L.A. Times, CJR, Bon Appetit, Islands, SAPIENS, etc.
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