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The author Wallace Stegner wrote: "The remaining Western wilderness is the geography of hope." Right now, it is the geography of tinder. What's the best way to save it?
Ever since the Jordan, people have used rivers to find something (Jim and Huck's escape) or someone (Conrad's Kurtz or Coppola's). But in America rivers have meant more than quests and more than entrances and borders. They have been tests of what the country wanted of its...
Disney has been making what amounts to the same animated feature for more than 60 years. In this "classic," an innocent creature, often an orphan (1942's Bambi, 1999's Tarzan), is abandoned in the wilderness, adopted by a sympathetic guardian (sometimes of another species), and acquires a wise and...
The environmental problems afflicting the earth will not be solved until people in the mainstream adjust their behavior so that they live in harmony with nature. But environmentalists also need to adapt to a new reality and join in a search for workable solutions rather than acting like prophets crying...
Republicans like to chest-thump that they follow their conscience, not the polls. But it's just as likely that they're following the klieg lights out of their post-impeachment media wilderness. The Gonzalez family--who took to crossing the street to the media encampment calling out "It's...