Urban ecologist James Howard Kunstler put himself in the vanguard of suburban sprawl critics with his 1993 book The Geography of Nowhere, which inveighed against isolated subdivisions and those big-box commercial clusters just down the highway. Kunstler’s timing was perfect, as he put into words what many Americans in the early 1990s were feeling about […]
Erik Wemple
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Decontrol Freaks
While the old 486 couldn’t even play Solitaire, congressional hawks and White House Luddites were convinced that, if exported, it would rev up nuclear weapons plants from Beijing to Baghdad. As a result, the East-West thaw had done nothing to loosen the export-control policies of Clinton’s predecessor, George Bush. As Soviet satellite states drifted into […]
