Evaggelos Vallianatos

Evaggelos Vallianatos, Ph.D., is a historian and ecological-political theorist. He studied zoology and history, Greek and European, at the University of Illinois and Wisconsin. He did postdoctoral studies in the history of science at Harvard. He worked on Capitol Hill and the US Environmental Protection Agency; taught at several universities, and authored hundreds of articles and several books, including Poison Spring (2014), The Antikythera Mechanism (2021), Freedom (2025) and Earth on Fire: Brewing Plagues and Climate Chaos in Our Backyards (World Scientific, 2026).

Can Democracy Save America?

Dare to Know: the Paradox of Greek History

Time Machine: Re-Visiting the Golden Age of Greek Science

Human Flourishing (Eudaimonia): an Antidote to Extinction?

Hawai’i in Trouble

Stealing Democracy in an Age of Kleptocrats

Ecological Civilization: Could China Become a Model for Saving the Earth?

Riding the Wild Bull of Nuclear Power

Robots in the Vast Memory Palace of Myth

On Home Ground in a Distant Land

Of Insects and Men

Literature and Theater During War: Why Euripides Still Matters

The Lure of the Past

Vultures Over Greece and Macedonia

Toxic Pesticides Assault in Utah

Land Grabbers: the Threat of Giant Agriculture

How I Fell in Love With Greek Art

Crime and Punishment in an Age of the Jungle

The Waters of American Democracy

It’s Not Easy Being Greek

Sacrificing Children: Pesticides in the Time of Oligarchy

Can a Few People Save the World?

Spraying Poisons, Chasing Ghosts

The Zika Scare: a Political and Commercial Maneuver of the Chemical Poisons Industry

The Spectre of Genetic Catastrophe

The Menace of Leafblowers: a Careless Technology in Our Own Backyard

Chemical Deceit

Ruthless Power and Deleterious Politics: From DDT to Roundup