Gregg Easterbrook

Recent articles by handsome author

admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:59:00 +0000

I have recent articles in The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/01/star-power/8855 on solar science, in the New York Times Sunday Review http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/opinion/sunday/the-pipeline-we-actually-need.html?_r=1&ref=sarahpalin on energy supply and in the Harvard Business Review http://hbr.org/search/Gregg%20Easterbrook on space science. The Harvard Business Review article is subscription only, but you can download a podcast of me discussing the article here http://blogs.hbr.org/ideacast/2011/12/hbrs-2012-list-of-audacious-id.html.

Still no Nobel Prize for letters to the editor

admin — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:47:46 +0000

Here is me talking to Adam Riess, one of three researchers who just won the Nobel Prize for Physics.

Nice choice of words

admin — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 19:58:18 +0000

The Deseret News calls me a “renowned author.”

BYU talk

admin — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:47:33 +0000

I give a talk at Brigham Young University on September 20th. The school seems to have granted me the title “economist.”

PBS documentary

admin — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:44:38 +0000

There’s now a transcript of my interview with PBS Frontline about high school sports safety. The documentary, “Football High,” is here .

Canadian Commentators Have Good Taste

admin — Thu, 12 May 2011 19:04:19 +0000

Canada’s CTV quotes Easterbrook’s Law: “All economic news is bad.” This comes from a 1989 article I wrote for the New Republic.

One Year Later, I Realize the Obvious

admin — Wed, 11 May 2011 20:15:47 +0000

For a year, I have been writing a weekly column on politics for Reuters. It just hit me that I should post the columns. Here is the latest.

They Have British Accents So It Must Be Quality

admin — Tue, 10 May 2011 11:22:35 +0000

Here’s a podcast http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/whys#playepisode3 of me talking on BBC World Service.

Not Don Easterbrook

admin — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:39:41 +0000

In answer to many inquiries — please don’t confuse me with Don Easterbrook, the Western Washington University geologist who has become a climate change denier. He may be a distant relative — there aren’t that many Easterbrooks, except in Agatha Christie novels — but he’s not me, and I have never met him.

Colorado College Boy Talks at Yale

admin — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:36:04 +0000

The Yale Daily News gave me a nice thumbs up http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/mar/31/a-new-impression-of-the-tmq. I was not invited to join any secret societies.