Rising tides and 'dull-sighted men,' a review of The Water Will Come, by Jeff Goodell
Jack Hamilton wonders if Daniel Defoe's lament for human self-interest 300 years ago will serve as an epigraph for our watery future

By John Maxwell Hamilton
(About the author: John Maxwell Hamilton, the Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor of Journalism at Louisiana State University, is a longtime journalist and author of Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda, which was recently sel…
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