Book Bits: 23 August 2025

● Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization
Bill McKibben
Review via The New Atlantis
Some years ago, my colleagues and I used to joke that after the revolution, all essays about climate change would be written by Bill McKibben. This was during the final years of the Obama administration and the first Trump administration, when McKibben was ubiquitous in the mainstream media. In every year between 2015 and 2021, he published at least two and up to as many as six articles in the New York Times. At the same time, he was writing a regular column at the New Yorker while also publishing in virtually every leading center-left publication in the country: the New Republic, Rolling Stone, the Washington Post, the Nation. No major legacy publication, it seemed, was exempt.
McKibben’s revolution, though, is looking tenuous these days.

● Deficit Delusion: Why Everything Left, Right, and Supply-Side Tells You About the National Debt Is Wrong
John Tamny
Interview with author via The Steve Gruber Show
John Tamny, Political Economy Editor at Forbes, Senior Economic Adviser to Toreador Research & Trading, and Editor of RealClearMarkets.com, joins the show to discuss his new book, Deficit Delusion: Why Everything Left, Right, and Supply-Side Tells You About the National Debt Is Wrong. Tamny challenges conventional wisdom on federal spending and debt, breaking down why both sides of the political aisle have the story wrong and what Americans need to understand about deficits, growth, and the future of the economy.

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