Coyotes have a lot to teach us about who we are. They remind us that, like them, we are both predators and prey: that our lives are had at the expense of other lives, whether plant or animal, and that we too are a part of nature. To learn more about them, I talk with…

Did you know that the entire family of canids – from dire wolves to African jackals – emerged in what is now the American Southwest/ northern Mexico? Did you know that there are many stories older than Gilgamesh that feature Coyote as their protagonist? Or that you can think of Wile E. Coyote as an…

In 1967, medieval historian Lynn White published a now-infamous paper that traces the current environmental crisis back to a Judeo-Christian worldview… essentially, he blames the creation story in Genesis, especially the part in which God gives humans the task of “ruling” over animals.  But is Genesis really to blame? To understand more, I spoke with…