After the American Century

Technology, politics and culture

October 10, 2018

US lags in reacting to longterm trends in energy, pollution, and global warming

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After the American Century The times are out of joint. The short term outlook is good, if by this one means unemployment is low, interes...
July 31, 2018

How I came to write a novel: McSocrates

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After the American Century Once upon a time I was in Yorkshire for a semester of research, and after several months I had exhau...
February 22, 2018

The Energy Transition from Gas to Electricity

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American Illuminations : The Energy Transition from Gas to Electricity After the American Century In 1900 the city of Cincinnati s...
February 02, 2018

Our energy transition

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After the American Century We are living in the midst of an energy transition, shifting away from fossil fuels to solar, wind, biomass, ...
January 20, 2018

Republicans Vote for a Shutdown

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Republicans vote for a shutdown After the American Century Only 45 Republicans voted for the budget bill that would keep the governme...
August 04, 2017

Expatriation: not what it used to be

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After the American Century A century ago being an expatriate had a certain cachet. Some major American writers once lived primarily in B...
June 02, 2017

Why the US Should Have Signed the Paris Climate Accords

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After the American Century  I have been studying the history of energy, especially electricity, for three decades.* In fact, I spent...
March 17, 2017

Trump Seeks to Revive Calvin Coolidge's America

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The First Trump Budget Reveals Republican Values:  A Return to Calvin Coolidge's America After the American Century Calvin Cooli...
February 09, 2017

The Huckster President: Trump's flagrant conflicts of interest

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After the American Century Donald Trump likes to be a moving target, constantly drawing attention away from what he did yesterday with ...
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David E. Nye
Odense, Denmark
Author or editor of more than 25 books, including 12 with The MIT Press, and more than 225 publications in all. Honors include the Leonardo da Vinci Medal in 2005. Senior Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota. By-Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University. Professor Emeritus SDU, Denmark. Knighted by the Queen of Denmark in 2014. A bibliography and index to publications is available for free download at https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/219592
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