by David Brooks | Feb 5, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I wish solar installations were so common that we could move past of tallying how much solar power each state has installed as a sort of virtuous race but we’re not. Still, it has progressed: I can remember tallying it town by town, because it was so rare. As...
by David Brooks | Jan 31, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Harvard law professor Larry Lessig has been in New Hampshire often enough for political advocacy that he knows what will get lawmakers’ attention here, and he got right to the point Tuesday: He thinks our presidential primary is in danger. Lessig was testifying in...
by David Brooks | Jan 29, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s no good way to reduce the number of black-legged ticks (the sort that spread Lyme and other diseases), despite fans of tick-loving animals like possums and guinea hens, or even robotic tick-snagging robots. The best bet is to target the mammals that...
by David Brooks | Jan 29, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
There is a certain subset of people who, if they were to design a college degree, would include courses like “J.R.R. Tolkien’s Poetry,” “Literature, Film and Technoculture,” and “The Cosmic Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.” Since that subset overlaps strongly with Granite...
by David Brooks | Jan 28, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire is awash in proposed legislation at this time of year when our enormous legislature (third largest government body in the English-speaking world is the usual description) puts forward all its ideas for future laws. Most will go nowhere, but you never can...
by David Brooks | Jan 28, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The New England Patriots are the local football team – football as in “using a ball that’s pointy on both ends” not “using a ball covered with pentagons and hexagons” – and they’re going to the championship game for the...
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