Speaking of the next POTUS: The March issue of The New Criterion is out, with a long review by me of American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau. The book comes with a foreword by you-know-who. It also includes, as one of its 100-odd specimens of environmentalist writing, YKW’s speech at the 1997 Kyoto conference on global warming.

Is this all part of my campaign to get a job in the Gore administration? Perish the thought! Although, as it happens, I shall be finished with my own new book and available for work just around about, oh, next January. If anyone is, like, hiring.

(What’s that you say? You tried to read the review online but you can’t because you don’t have a subscription to the magazine? WHY don’t you have a subscription to the magazine? Huh? You darn well should have one. Come on — my children are hungry.)