Articles by Samuel Miller McDonald
How to Destroy a Story
10 years after the launch of Game of Thrones, Samuel Miller McDonald looks back at its promising start—and how it all went wrong.
The Ministry for the Future, or Do Authors Dream of Electric Jeeps?
Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2020 climate novel has been hailed as one of the most important books of the era. But is it good climate commentary, or even good fiction?
The Climate Case for Joe Biden (Is Strong but More Complicated Than You Might Have Heard)
Biden’s climate plan may be lackluster, but it is less likely to actively kill people.
Empire of Same
Samuel Miller McDonald takes an introspective look at chemical deserts, Disney’s hegemony, and empires of the past and future.
How Do We Actually Build Solidarity?
“Solidarity” is a word that gets thrown around a lot on the left. But what does it really mean? And how do we take it from a concept to reality?
It’s Not “Ecofascism”—It’s Liberalism
On the newfangled term “ecofascism,” and how it lets plain old racist liberals off the hook.
Oil Age
How one commodity explains the rise of our modern age…and now threatens to destroy it.
Breaking Development
Our concept of “development” is destructive and irrational. It must be abandoned.
His Dark Materialism
In Defense of Facing Our Daemons…
We Need A Fair Way To End Infinite Growth
The left should embrace de-growth, but it’s the rich that need to sacrifice…
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