ART HOBSON: Refundable carbon tax needed
Why do Canadians seem to resolve difficult issues more rationally and peacefully than Americans? Perhaps it's an outgrowth of our origin in violent revolution versus Canada's history of peaceful coope...
November 13, 2018
ART HOBSON: Will we attack Iran?
In 2015, the New York Times published an op-ed urging President Obama to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities and provide "vigoroU.S. American support for ... regime change in Tehran." President Trump recen...
October 23, 2018
ART HOBSON: Crime against the planet
By early August, 85 large fires burned in California and northern California was declared a national disaster. Exacerbated by years of western drought, they caused more than a dozen deaths, thousands ...
October 2, 2018
ART HOBSON: Are Kim's missiles a threat to U.S.?
How about that? After Chairman Kim Jong Un agreed with President Trump to "work toward denuclearization," and Trump's tweet expressing "confidence that Kim ... will honor the contract we signed ... to...
September 11, 2018
ART HOBSON: Getting to know U
Whether one considers the Iran nuclear deal, North Korea's H-bomb, Russia's arsenal or America's military establishment, it's clear we all need to know something about nuclear weapons technology.
Nort...
August 21, 2018
ART HOBSON: Region needs mass transit
Northwest Arkansas needs mass transit
ORT, Razorback blend is a good idea
Every city in this extremely rich nation should be able to offer all its citizens a high quality of life. An essential ingredi...
July 31, 2018
ART HOBSON: Resisting religious extremism
Humankind received stunning good news on May 28 when Ireland voted to repeal its constitutional ban on abortion. The vote had been expected to be close, but the margin turned out to be an overwhelming...
June 19, 2018
ART HOBSON: Trump makes a disastrous choice
It would be hard to top the recklessness of George W. Bush's 2003 attack on Iraq, but President Trump has managed it by withdrawing from the Iranian nuclear agreement. The consequences will be worse t...
May 29, 2018
ART HOBSON: TESS searches for signs of life
NASA's latest planet-hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite or TESS, rocketed into space on April 18. It will be two months before the refrigerator-sized satellite maneuvers into its unusua...
May 8, 2018
ART HOBSON: Bicycling benefits region
As readers probably know, I'm an academic type who does a lot of complaining about developments that seem to me to be unhealthy for the planet and its inhabitants. But despite the grumbling, I feel ex...
April 17, 2018
ART HOBSON: In God We Trust?
A March 4 headline read "'In God We Trust' signs going up in schools." New Arkansas legislation requires public schools to display such posters whenever someone donates them. The American Legion of Be...
March 27, 2018
ART HOBSON: The permanent warfare state
The Trump administration recently released a National Defense Strategy that tries to justify a new massive military buildup throughout the world. While continuing our campaign against terrorists, the ...
March 6, 2018
ART HOBSON: Immigration deal essential
Unbending ideology is the enemy of democracy. We see this in nations doomed to terrorism by rigid religious beliefs. We see it in the authoritarian government and failed economies of nations led by ex...
February 13, 2018
ART HOBSON: In search of Schrodinger's cat
Quantum physics -- the study of matter and energy at the microscopic level -- delights me, and I've gotten more involved with it since retirement provided more time for pondering.
The quantum fundamen...
January 23, 2018
ART HOBSON: City eyes energy action plan
Since coming here in 1964. I've been happy to be a Fayetteville citizen, but I'm happier still since scanning the city's new Energy Action Plan.A search at the city's Web site (http://www.fayetteville...
January 2, 2018