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One essential thing I learned while writing Neighborhood of Fear was so much of what I studied related directly to contemporary American culture including the roots of so many practices and beliefs prevalent today – from consumer-centered environmentalism and...

En-Capsulating Security: Could a Pill Strengthen National Security? Hardly a year goes by of late in which a new infectious disease outbreak does not capture the world’s fears and imagination – from HIV/AIDS, SARS and pandemic flu, through to Ebola and Zika...

As a political historian, my initial objective when writing Hydrocarbon Nation was simply to investigate the role that fossil fuels have played in influencing America’s political and economic advance. My sense was that although most environmentalists view...