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In which a groundhog asserts his rights to my garden

This broad field which I have looked at so long looks not to me as the principal cultivator, but away from me to influences more genial to…

Apr 20, 2021

Apr 20, 2021

A Constitutional Amendment for the Environment

Given our imminent turn to a more conservative Supreme Court, and Given the skepticism that our conservative justices have shown about the…

Oct 6, 2020

A Constitutional Amendment for the Environment

Oct 6, 2020

Refusing to Apply the Law: A Critique of Conservative Jurisprudence

A friend recently shared a comment on social media to the effect that conservative justices apply the law, while liberal ones make it up…

Oct 1, 2020

Refusing to Apply the Law: A Critique of Conservative Jurisprudence

Oct 1, 2020

Warrantless Border Detentions are Illegal: a brief argument

Human rights, as recognized in international and US constitutional law, are routinely infringed by our border policies and infrastructure…

Aug 20, 2020

image of barbed wire coils in the sunset

Aug 20, 2020

Inequality Distorts Markets

I’m surprised by what is missing in popular debates about economic inequality. A few arguments get repeated over and over — namely, that…

Jun 4, 2020

image of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC

Jun 4, 2020

About the Economy

There is a lot of discussion right now about how to save the economy, or whether certain trade-offs are permissible in order to save the…

Apr 24, 2020

About the Economy

Apr 24, 2020

Thoughts on Public Science, Prompted by Corvid-19 and the Climate Crisis

Public science is an essential part of our democracy, but not one that is always so well appreciated or supported. This may be because we…

Apr 3, 2020

Thoughts on Public Science, Prompted by Corvid-19 and the Climate Crisis

Apr 3, 2020

COVID-19 and Mother Nature

Here is this vast, savage, hovering mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as…

Mar 31, 2020

Mar 31, 2020

Local Resilience as Climate Action

As we face the awful exigencies of the climate crisis, there are choices to make in how we direct our limited capacity to respond. Our…

Nov 19, 2019

Nov 19, 2019

The Anthropocene and the Perils of Abstraction

This essay is adapted from a talk first delivered at Akaki Tsereteli State University in Kutaisi, Georgia, November 1, 2019. It was part…

Nov 8, 2019

The Anthropocene and the Perils of Abstraction

Nov 8, 2019

David Henderson

David Henderson

David is an environmental philosopher who teaches at Western Carolina University in the southern Appalachian mountains.

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