‘The Smokers’ could be a warning against the dangers of vice. Or it might be a sly endorsement. Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623-1673), once wrote an allegory in which two ...
Regular viewer Eric Smassanow asks a question that pops up from often during droughts: “Why has the government never taken action besides Lake Mead to move water around the country like we do energy?