Waves lap ashore near condo buildings on the day the United Nations released a report with a dire warning for humanity, in Sunny Isles, Fla., on Aug, 9, 2021. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
James Bowman is a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. The author of “Honor: A History,” he is a movie critic for The American Spectator and the media critic for The New Criterion.