The wonderful editors at Substack asked me why I choose to write about that glowing orb in the sky:

I also feel lucky to be living at a time when the Moon is still the Moon, rather than a garishly lit billboard, overrun with nuclear reactors and lunar casinos, which will surely be the case in the next century. The Moon you look up at tonight is the same moon that our ancestors gazed at for hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution. We are perhaps the final generation to enjoy this long-lived sight, and we should not take it for granted.

—from What To Read: Will Dowd is ruminating on the moon