Articles by David Roberts

The Mustache waxes poetic about America’s innovators

And finally, completing our tour of tomorrow's NYT, The Mustache of Understanding points out that even though the government has not launched the much-discussed Manhattan Project for energy, there is in fact a "distributed Manhattan Project" going on as we speak, powered by American entrepreneurs:

Hillary maneuvering against Gore?

Of course you can't read it because it's behind the NYT $ wall, but Maureen Dowd speculates that Hillary's big speech today on energy and the environment was a bid to divert some of the spotlight that's been cast on Gore lately.

Maybe, maybe not. But if presidential candidates start competing to show who can be most bold on the energy issue, we will all benefit.

Easterbrook accepts global warming

Gregg Easterbrook magnanimously concedes that global warming is, in fact, real. So all of us who have been warning about it for years -- pushing against dimwits like Gregg Easterbrook -- are now, retroactively, by His Own Centrist Grace, transmuted from "alarmists" to reasonable people. Thanks, Gregg.

Kakutani on Gore

The New York Times' Michiko Kakutani -- the most feared, worshiped, loathed, influential book reviewer on the literary scene -- gives Al Gore's new book a strong thumbs up.