The Narthex
Is the UN Rethinking the Green New Deal?
The discontent of citizens and the business community, and the critical voices of scientists, are heard
By Sabino Paciolla | November 12th 2025 3:02 PMCOP30, the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, opens today. The meetings will begin in Belém, a Brazilian port city located on the edge of the Amazon, and will end on November 21. Expectations are high among large sectors of the establishment, lobbies, and environmental movements, but there's also a…
READ FULL BLOG POSTFood Gentrification and Food Substitution
On living to eat rather than eating to live, and eating bugs for the sake of 'the planet'
By John M. Grondelski | September 24th 2025 12:21 PMI recently wrote about how what were once considered food waste products have increasingly hit the grocery market. My inspiration was last Sunday’s First Reading, in which the prophet Amos excoriated the commercial cheats of ancient Israel, specifically, his comment about selling “the refuse of the wheat” as food. But…
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Must I Pay?... All Talk... Deliberate 'Errors'... Vague Values... more
By John M. Grondelski | September 18th 2023 12:42 PMI’ve explained in the past that I keep a subscription to The New York Times primarily because it is a source par excellence for the insane musings of the Left. But even I could not believe the number of such inanities the Old Gray Lady managed to publish in just…
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