In the passage about "this Hobbesian order, driven by a leader who rejects any constraints on his ability to act," are you referring to Hobbes' state of nature or Hobbes' Leviathan?

Yes, certainly a happier ending!

Hi Gianluca. So great to see your travelogue again. I had followed your previous journey daily with fascination a couple years ago. Totally optional, some time when you have internet, may I interview you for a video project of our #flyingless initiative? Email at firstname . lastname at gmail.

Lawrence ("Don't look back")

Devon Gilfillian ("All I really want to do")

And while I'm at it,... and this too is not why most people will watch this TV show,... Pluribus is particularly interesting for people who have spent long hours looking at maps of long-distance low-carbon bus routes through Latin America and wondered how to handle the Darien Gap in Panama.

In this thoughtful 2019 column (about healthy eating, not just obesity), you wrestle with holding a high standard of evidence that permits knowing almost nothing in the end.

Just to me, your thread this week sounded more open to feasible research designs.

www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/fo...

Have your views on this point evolved over time? If you don't mind the question, did you used to come down quite hard on nutrition folks who failed to achieve a standard of evidence that was inherently infeasible? Feel free to say "no never did that," in which case I'll believe I misremembered.

Well, there's two of you, in harmony. As Arlo Guthrie says, in the Alice's Restaurant Massacree, if three of you do it we can call it an organization, and with 50 it'll be a movement.