Author Archives: Fenster

Fenster writes: John Holdren was Obama’s Science Czar, In 1977 he, along with Paul Ehrlich and Anne Ehrlich, authored a textbook on population and the environment. In it they address options for involuntary fertility control. Most of these are methods … Continue reading →

Fenster writes: My newfound interest in nature has been spurred by retirement, with a side interest in foraging spurred by my concern over the coming End Times. I am consequently a member of a number of Facebook groups devoted to … Continue reading →

Fenster writes: It’s double feature time again. Some double features here are naturals: two films written by Hanif Kureishi separated by decades that reveal how authorial obsessions change as the author ages. Others are linked by chance: I happened to … Continue reading →

Fenster writes: In crises, events first everything else later, including post-mortems, recriminations and oopsies. This is true with the law as well. The law pretends to majesty but in crisis it can find itself behind the curve with the other … Continue reading →

Fenster writes: I recently wrote up The Biggest Little Farm, a documentary distributed by Neon and streaming on Hulu. Today, another Neon/Hulu documentary: The Painter and the Thief. The Biggest Little Farm presented a view of nature that was both … Continue reading →

Fenster writes: “I could teach anybody, even people in this room, no offense intended, to be a farmer.” -Mike Bloomberg at Oxford People, despite their seeming complexity, often yield up their characters quite readily to those with an eye to … Continue reading →