Paul Sabin

Writings

Magazines and Newspapers

“Government regulation is vital, but it also needs to be efficient”

— Washington Post, December 14, 2021 (link to original » )

“Who Killed Big Government? It’s not who you think”

— The Yale Review, November 1, 2021 (link to original » )

“The Liberal Attack on Government: The left criticized administrative power, and then lost control of both the government and the narrative that surrounded it.”

— The Atlantic, September 19, 2021 (link to original » )

“To Succeed, Liberals Must Absorb History’s Lessons”

— New York Times, August 4, 2021 (link to original » )

“Comments on Fossil Fuel Divestment”

— Yale Daily News, February 20, 2020 (link to original » )

“Three cheers for tolls”

— Connecticut Mirror, January 23, 2020 (link to original » )

“Citizen Activism, History, and the Environmental Crisis”

— Cosmologics Magazine, May 21, 2017 (link to original » )

“The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon and Our Gamble over Earth’s Future”

— MacMillan Report, 30 October 2013 (link to original » )

“$1000 Question- Did the population bomb ever explode?”

— Grist Magazine, 9 September 2013 (link to original » )

After Words: Conversation about “The Bet” with Dina Cappiello

— CSPAN2 BOOKTV, September 7, 2013 (link to original » )

“Betting on the Apocalypse”

— New York Times, 7 September 2013 (link to original » )

“The Big Idea: Can Innovation Save Us?”

— The Daily Beast, 6 September 2013 (link to original » )

“The Decline of Republican Environmentalism”

— Boston Globe, 31 August 2013 (link to original » )

“From King Coal to carbon tax: A historical perspective on the energy and climate-change debate”

— Solutions Journal v2:3 (May 2011) (link to original » )

“Before the Big Spill”

— Slate, 7 May 2010. (link to original » )

“Climate Change and the Energy Transition: Lessons from History”

— Macmillan Report, 20 May 2009. (link to original » )

“The Environment: Refocusing on the Environmental Crisis”

— Slate, 3 April 2008 (with Emily Bazelon). (link to original » )

“Earth Day: The Environmental Movement’s Midlife Crisis”

— Slate, 21 April 2005. (link to original » )

“Liberals must refight battles of the past”

— Boston Globe, 22 December 2004. (link to original » )

“Playing the Market: Free markets don’t exist and never could”

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— Legal Affairs, November/December 2004, 25-27.

“For the budget-conscious: Cheap oil isn’t worth the price”

— Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2004 (link to original » )

“Yes, oil is too expensive — for security, environment”

— Sacramento Bee, 4 April 2004. (link to original » )

“Keep Those Gasoline Prices High”

— Boston Globe, 27 June 2000, A15. (link to original » )

Scholarly Publications

“Environmental Law and the End of the New Deal Order”

— Gary Gerstle, Nelson Lichtenstein, and Alice O'Connor, eds. "Beyond the New Deal Order U.S. Politics from the Great Depression to the Great Recession," University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. (link to original » )

“’Everything has a price’: Jimmy Carter and the Struggle for Balance in Federal Regulatory Policy”

— Journal of Policy History, 28:1 (January 2016): 1-47 (link to original » )

“Environmental Law and the End of the New Deal Order”

— Law and History Review (November 2015): 965-1003. (link to original » )

“Crisis and Continuity in United States Oil Politics, 1965-1980”

— Journal of American History 99:1 (June 2012): 177-186. (link to original » )

“‘The Ultimate Environmental Dilemma’: Making a Place for Historians in the Climate and Energy Debates”

— Environmental History 15 (January 2010): 76-93. (link to original » )

“Rooting Around in Search of Causality”

— Environmental History 10 (January 2005): 83-85. (link to original » )

“Global Warming”

— Stanley Kutler, ed., Dictionary of American History, 3rd Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003.

“‘A Dive into Nature’s Great Grab-bag’: Nature, Gender and Capitalism in the Early Pennsylvania Oil Industry”

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— Pennsylvania History 66:4 (Fall 1999): 472-505. (Recipient of the 2001 Robert G. Crist Pennsylvania History Prize) (link to original » )

“Searching for Middle Ground: Native Communities and Oil Extraction in the Northern and Central Ecuadorian Amazon, 1967-1993”

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— Environmental History 3 (April 1998): 144-168. (link to original » )

“Home and Abroad: The Two ‘Wests’ of Twentieth-Century United States History”

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— Pacific Historical Review 66 (August 1997): 305-335. (Recipient of the 1998 Ray Allen Billington Award and the 1997 W. Turrentine Jackson Prize) (link to original » )

“Voices from the Hydrocarbon Frontier: Canada’s Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry (1974-1977)”

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— Environmental History Review 19 (Spring 1995): 17-48. (link to original » )

“High Tide of Equal Protection: Justice Raymond L. Sullivan’s Opinions in Serrano and Westbrook”

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— The California Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 2 (1995): 133-157. (link to original » )