A native son's ignoble legacy

 LISTEN. How good it was to be visited by my sister Saturday night, stopping on her way home to Missouri from Carolina, and then to speak yesterday by screen with our old friend in Florida who's been felled and bedridden by stroke. As the poet says, "Often a sweetness comes as if on loan, stays just long enough to make sense of what it means to be alive..."

Today in Environmental Ethics we consider the source of the lie that global warming is a hoax. Spoiler alert: Ayn Rand, the Kochs, MTSU's own James Buchanan, and "our" Political Economy Research Institute are involved. It's not a great-hearted or happy story, but it's important to grasp why our social contract has come unraveled if we're ever to restitch it... (continues)