Thanks Science

Very kind review https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.abj9481?af=R&utm_campaign=toc_sci-mag_2021-09-09&et_rid=374827330&et_cid=3914133& in Science magazine, the American Association for the Advancement of Science publication that doesn’t often treat general-interest books as news.

rave review

“Mr. Easterbrook makes a strong case that the tenuous peace on the seas is worth trillions of dollars to the world economy and is essential to global order.” From the Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-blue-age-review-dragging-anchor-11630362174?mod=books_arts_lead_story. Fun note: the graphic on the web but not in the printed paper, of USS Wasp, shows the warship described in the book.

Kukula Award winners announced

Washington Monthly announced the winners of the second annual award for book reviewing named for the late book reviewer Kukula Glastris.

Spoiler alert -- Blue Age blurbs

They just posted at the bottom of this page.

Thanks, Publishers Lunch

The Blue Age makes Publishers Lunch list of Buzz Books for autumn 2021. List is longer than norm owing to books that were held in 2020.

Thanks Progress Network

The new and important Progress Network notes a cockeyed optimist.

The Blue Age announced

My next book, The Blue Age, will be released on September 7, 2017

Thanks Actors Co-op Theatre

Actors Co-Op of Los Angeles reads my Christmas piece "The Gift Within the Gift".

Thanks Minn Star-Tribune...

...for remember my essay about the great Norman Borlaug on the occasion of the Peace Prize going to Green Revolution ag research. Here is the full essay from 1997.

How 14 billion years can be "young"

Nice quotations from my 1988 The Atlantic article supposing humanity has come along quite early in a likely trillion-year evolution of the cosmos. There's a lot on SETI in the essay as well, and since 1988, hardly anything has changed.

Progress Network Launches

Stressed out? Discouraged? There are problems but also there has NEVER been a better time to be alive.

Glad to be part of the new Progress Network, which will carry the torch for optimism about the human prospect.

How the optimism thesis fits in a year of covid and the George Floyd murder

A podcast with Ashland University.

Let's hear it for the reviewers

Washington Monthly announces an important new award for book reviewing, named for the late reviewer Kukula Glastris.

Libraries aren't reopened yet in my county...

...but book talk never takes a day off.

Great news for publishing

Anyone interested in the world of publishing should be glad to hear that Jon Karp has been named CEO of Simon & Schuster. He is a fine editor and a supporter of creativity -- increasingly needed in the corporate ranks. I find from the press release that he's edited, among many others more distinguished, Donna Summer, Donald Trump and me,

The Atlantic

It's always nice to have an article in The Atlantic.

Thanks, John O'Leary

The always-inspirational John O'Leary talking about "It's Better Than It Looks" and how optimism is the best policy even when something bad is happening.

A Great Day for the Washington Monthly

Publications with far, far more money have come and gone: Washington Monthly hits 50 years today. And you can still get a printed issue delivered to your home by a uniformed agent of the federal government!

Here's a reflection on my 1980 story predicting the energy crisis -- then all the rage in Washington and Brussels, supposed to end the world -- actually would be replaced by a glut of oil and natural gas. Which is what happened!

To my great amusement, today's Wall Street Journal has a story reporting Washington and Brussels are now upset by -- the glut of oil and gas.

Thanks NYT

Thanks for the nice play -- at the top of page A1, at least at 12:17 PM Eastern on 9-8-19. Probably this lasted 90 seconds.

No TMQ This Year; Not Closing Door, Though

This being 2019 the announcement is on Twitter.